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News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/un-rights-bloc-asks-sri-lanka-to-act-on-reforms-disappearances/ar-AA2bRjZU
Published on: Tuesday 08 September 2026
A UK-led group at the UN Human Rights Council urged Sri Lanka to turn reform pledges into concrete action. The intervention kept focus on disappearances, accountability and civil liberties as global ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Social: Mass protests in Sri Lanka’s northern and eastern provinces against Wickremesinghe’s Anti-Terrorism Bill
News channel or source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/ucnm-a28.html
Published on: Wednesday 26 April 2023
Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged northern and eastern provinces were brought to a standstill on Tuesday by a mass hartal (strike and business closure) in protest against President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s new ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Social: After bombings, Sri Lanka is caught between the good and evil of social media
News channel or source: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/after-bombings-sri-lanka-is-caught-between-the-good-and-evil-of-social-media.php
Published on: Sunday 28 April 2019
Blocked Facebook window in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Photo: AP/Eranga Jayawardena. Free-speech advocates have railed against the ban as needless censorship, condemning the Sri Lankan government for taking ...