April 2019

Explaining Sri Lanka’s new Emergency Regulations on ‘publication’

by |29 April 201929 April 2019|Verité in the News

Taken From - DailyFT Sri Lanka’s President issued a new set of Emergency Regulations on 22 April. This note explains the contents of Emergency Regulation 15, which concerns the ‘control of publications’, and certain other regulations relevant to publication. There...

‘ප‍්‍රකාශනයට’ බලපැවැත්වෙන ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ නව හිදිසි නීති රෙගුලාසි මොනවා ද?

by |29 April 201929 April 2019|Verité in the News

යොමුව - Vikalpa 2019 අප්‍රේල් 22 වන දින සිට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් නව හදිසි නීති රෙගුලාසි මාලාවක් නිකුත් කර ඇත. මෙම ලිපිය හරහා ‘ප්‍රකාශනයන් පාලනයට’ ( control of publications ) බලපැවැත්වෙන අංක 15 දරන හදිසි නීති රෙගුලාසියේ අන්තර්ගතයන් සහ...

How a legal blind spot could have kept Sri Lanka from arresting returning ISIS members

by |26 April 201926 April 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from - The Washington Post Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Sky News on Thursday that the Sri Lankan government had known that Sri Lankan nationals who had joined the Islamic State had returned to the country —...

Sri Lanka Terror Brings National Security and Fear of Safety to Fore

by |23 April 201923 April 2019|Interviews & Articles

Taken from - sputniknews Image Courtesy - Reuters The Easter Sunday attacks across Sri Lanka have claimed the lives of at least 290 people and left over 500 people injured. The bombings targeted three churches and four luxury hotels. Security...

Sri Lanka parliament committee slams failures in public finance management

by |17 April 201917 April 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from economynext A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee overseeing public spending has criticised the finance ministry for delays and inadequacies in providing information, and said that alteration in budget proposals owing to faulty estimates are failures of public finance management....

Arrest of writer Sathkumara sparks debate on freedom of expression

by |13 April 201913 April 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from - DailyMirror Photo Courtesy - DailyMirror On April 1, award-winning author and poet Shakthika Sathkumara was arrested and remanded on contrived charges of inciting religious hatred, a move that has been decried by artists, academics and free-speech advocates...

Succeeding in 4IR era: Opportunities and challenges for Sri Lanka

by |02 April 201902 April 2019|Verité in the News

Taken from - DailyMirror Image Courtesy - DailyMirror The Institute of Policy Studies’ (IPS) New Thinkers Symposium saw researchers from several think tanks presenting their work on broad topics under the theme of technology and economic transformation. They highlighted the...