By Palitha Kohona | Inter Press Service COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Responding to a persistent demand by developing... . ..…

A supporter shouts slogans during a protest calling for the release of opposition political prisoners in front of the Maldives embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 6, 2018. . © 2018 Reuters . ... Nasheed, who has been campaigning from self-exile in Sri Lanka, is the only..…

Sri Lanka was the only country to ratify or accede to the convention, on March 1.. ..…

But what went left out conveniently was the fine print: After 10 years, Sri Lanka Port Authority can buy back an equal partnership stake, and after 80 years a majority stake for $1. ... This deal wiped clean Sri Lanka’s debt and created a path back to full ownership at..…

Sri Lanka's Special Task Force and Police officers stand guard near burnt house central district of Kandy, March 6, 2018. © 2018 Reuters. ... The government needs to protect the human rights of all ethnic groups to ensure that the ugly violence that presaged Sri..…

All four countries with Buddhism as the favored religion – Burma (Myanmar), Laos, Mongolia and Sri Lanka – are in the Asia-Pacific region. ..…

Four states, including Burma and Sri Lanka, Buddhism, while three nations, including Turkey and Syria, Islam. ..…

The United Nations also reported systematic abuse of Dalits by individuals, and many of the perpetrators of these crimes were not prosecuted by the government.29 Coupled with harassment of Hindus in several other countries with considerable Hindu populations, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and..…

I think that narrows it, said Sri Lanka native who came to U.S about 26 years ago on student visa and became in her early 30s... ..…

As that example shows, most “martyrdom operations” have been carried out for political, not religious reasons or, as was the case with Japan’s kamikazes and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka’s 1983–2009 civil war, as a last-ditch weapon of the weak against the strong. . ..…

In Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka, for example, monks attacked Christian including occupying Seventh-day Adventist in the town of Deniyaya and converting it into Buddhist temple. ..…

Certain obvious non-African candidates for prosecution are from states that have never joined the court, such as Sri Lanka, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Israel, Palestine, Syria, or Iraq. ... Yet on a continent whose people have suffered under colonialism, the charge that they are subject to an..…

Just three-in-ten in the seven countries Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand... ..…

Faizun Zackariya, Muslim Women’s Research and Action Front (MWRAF), Sri Lanka . and thirteen other women’s rights organizations around the world. . ..…

RCL opposed Accord from the standpoint of defending the working class, not Sinhala nation, and thus fought for the unity of workers Sri Lanka and India on socialist perspective. With the support of ICFI, it called for united front of working class organisations to defend workers from UNP..…

Sri Lanka – Building bridges in the air0 . Commentary . September 27, 2018 . . ..…

Thus, clearly popular sovereignty is the basis of the present Sri Lanka constitutional system. . ..…

The Ambassadors of Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Republic of Korea, Canada, Serbia, Timor Leste, Pakistan, Canada, and representatives from the embassies of the US, Russia, France, Thailand, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Brunei, Kuwait, Poland, and Czech Republic..…

In Sri Lanka, LSSP's of the working class opened the door to the unrestrained growth of communal politics, both by legitimizing Sinhala communalism and shattering the confidence of Tamil minority that it could look to the working class to defend its democratic rights.. ..…