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Legacy of Injustice: How Archaic Laws Continue to Haunt Sri Lanka’s LGBTIQ Community 

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  Sri Lanka’s legal landscape regarding the LGBTIQ community remains a complex web of colonial-era statutes and modern interpretations. While the constitution guarantees equality, a specific set of “archaic” laws relics of the British Victorian era are frequently weaponized to marginalize, harass, and prosecute individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. Below is […]

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Enforced Disappearances; A Problem Sri Lanka Seeking Solutions for Five Decades

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(To mark the 35th Annual Commemoration of the Disappeared) By Philip Dissanayake, Executive Director, Right to Life Human Rights Centre Sri Lanka has a long history of enforced disappearances. The period from the 1970s until the end of the civil war in 2009 is cited as a time when disappearances were severely reported in the

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Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Need for Legal Reform

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A Stance on the Ongoing Debate Surrounding a Local Tea Commercial The recent controversy ignited by a video advertisement from a prominent Sri Lankan tea company, facing calls for a consumer boycott due to its perceived focus on LGBTIQ issues, underscores a critical intersection between corporate social responsibility (CSR), human rights, and market freedom. As

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Protecting the Vulnerable: Why Sri Lanka’s Proposed Penal Code Amendment Risks Discipline and Fails to Tackle Systemic Child Abuse

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A critical human rights discussion has been ignited in Sri Lanka following the government’s proposal to amend the Penal Code to prohibit corporal and psychological punishment. While the objective to protect children from physical and mental abuse is fundamentally sound and aligned with international human rights standards, the specific language of the bill introduces a

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