Feb 20, 2026
This week’s media analysis highlights developments that raise significant constitutional questions relating to economic governance, security legislation, property rights, parliamentary standards, digital regulation, and institutional accountability. These developments raise broader concerns about the adequacy of Sri Lanka’s constitutional framework in addressing such challenges.
By One Text Initiative
Feb 20, 2026
Media coverage during the fourth week of January foregrounded several structural and constitutional concerns within Sri Lanka’s governance framework. Reporting across multiple sectors, including constitutional reform, security legislation, prosecutorial independence, economic regulation, and education policy, revealed recurring tensions relating to executive power, judicial oversight, institutional independence, and the enforceability of fundamental and socio-economic rights.
By One Text Initiative
Feb 20, 2026
The Protection of the State from Terrorism Bill (2026) introduces some new procedural and medical safeguards, but it ultimately repackages the structural core of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (1979) by expanding the state's executive detention powers, militarizing arrest protocols, and bypassing standard criminal justice protections.
By Shiral Lakthilaka, AAL
Feb 16, 2026
නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය කිරීමේ ක්රියාවලිය පිළිබඳ සංවාදය කොළඹ BMICH හිදී ඇරඹිණි. මෙහිදී ප්රධාන දේශනය පැවැත්වූ ආචාර්ය දීපිකා උඩගම පෙන්වා දුන්නේ 2022 අරගලයේ අපේක්ෂාවන් වූ වගවීම සහ පද්ධතිමය වෙනස මෙයට පදනම් විය යුතු බවයි. 1948 සිට රටට උචිත ව්යවස්ථාවක් නිර්මාණය කර ගැනීමට අපොහොසත් වීම සහ ඓතිහාසික ජන අරගලවල සැබෑ අරමුණු ව්යවස්ථාව තුළ පිළිබිඹු නොවීම යන ගැටලු මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා විය.
By Chandra Bhanu
Jan 28, 2026
The third week of January highlights key constitutional aspects, including limitations on the distribution of executive power, the resilience of independent institutions, administrative justice, and policy coherence. While some developments point to certain strengths within the system, the weaknesses of the Constitution continue to outweigh them.
By One Text Initiative
Jan 17, 2026
The second week of the New Year reflects more limitations of the constitution calling for stronger reforms
By One Text Initiative
Jan 15, 2026
This article outlines constitutional insights from the media coverage of the first week of January 2026, highlighting the growing tension between executive power and institutional accountability in Sri Lanka.
By One Text Initiative
Dec 17, 2025
This brief analysis draws constitutional insights relevant to ongoing reform discourse.
By One Text Initiative
Dec 16, 2025
Sri Lanka's debt burden is itself a product of climate injustice. Debt-financed mega-infrastructure projects, highways, deep-sea ports, and energy parks, have bypassed environmental safeguards, displaced communities, destroyed livelihoods, and fueled human-elephant conflicts.
By One Text Initiative
