Sri Lanka spotlight: From crisis to 2024 election

Journalists protest to draw attention to media freedom during a day and night protest in front of the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 18, 2022.
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The Editors
A series chronicling the continued impunity around attacks on journalists in Sri Lanka, including murders and enforced disappearances
A May 2008 protest against the abduction and assault of Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Charges are finally to be filed against military officers of the Tripoli platoon, implicated in the 2008 abduction and assault of Keith Noyahr as well as the killings and abductions of numerous other ...
Galkande Dhammananda Thero, a Buddhist monk who speaks often on reconciliation between the Sinhala and Tamil communities in Sri Lanka after the civil war.
Galkande Dhammananda wants to heal Sri Lanka’s ethno-religious divisions, but can he change a long tradition of hardline Sinhala-Buddhist monks stoking hatred against Tamils and Muslims?
An expressionist-style portrait of Virginia Woolf, with short, dark brown hair styled in waves, wearing a muted-tone outfit, set against a textured green background.
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The Editors
A conversation with the Sri Lankan-born Australian author on unsettling the realist novel form and exploring the gaps between ideals and actions
Graphic about Rajapaksas’ endless quest for power with 11 heads
The Rajapaksas, led by Mahinda, laid waste to Sri Lanka with tyranny, corruption and Sinhala supremacism until an economic collapse brought them down – yet still the threat of their return remains
Two women seaweed farmers in Vallappadu, Pooneryn. Women in Sri Lanka's north working in food production such as seaweed bear the brunt of extreme heat
Women workers in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province see their health and livelihoods at risk due to extreme heat linked to climate change, with government heat action plans still under development
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