English Articles

Dec 17, 2025

Key Constitutional Aspects Reflected in the Media Week 50 (8th December-14th December 2025)

This brief analysis draws constitutional insights relevant to ongoing reform discourse.

By One Text Initiative

Dec 16, 2025

Sri Lanka Demands Renegotiation of IMF Deal: Debt and Climate Justice in Wake of Cyclone Ditwah

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

Nov 26, 2025

Sri Lanka's Digital Future: Learning from India's Transformation

Digitalization isn't merely an ICT project. It's an economic strategy, a governance reform tool, and a pathway to sustainable growth.

By One Text Initiative

Nov 21, 2025

What Are Sri Lanka's New Education Reforms Really About?

While all parties currently agree that the country needs education reform, various disagreements have emerged about how it should be implemented.

By One Text Initiative

Nov 21, 2025

The Watchdog Role: Opposition in Governance

The Watchdog Role: Opposition in Governance.

By One Text Initiative

Nov 19, 2025

Key Constitutional Aspects Reflected in the Media Week 46, (10th November – 16th November 2025)

This week’s developments span education governance, fiscal and social policymaking, higher- education regulation, cultural expression, financial-sector restructuring, essential-services reform, and public procurement. Together, they underscore the need for a constitutional framework that embeds transparency, rights-protection, and evidence-based decision-making. The analysis below follows the structure of prior weeks and draws comparative insights from relevant international models.

By One Text Initiative

Oct 29, 2025

Human rights: Where is Sri Lanka heading?

Briefing the Parliament on the Government’s stance regarding the United Nations Human Rights Council’s new resolution adopted earlier this month, Prime Minister Dr. Harini...

By Dhaneshi Yatawara

Oct 27, 2025

The Breakdown of Rule of Law: When Violence Becomes the Norm

The shooting death of a democratically elected public official while on duty has exposed deep fractures in the country’s security apparatus and raised urgent questions about the erosion of the rule...

By One Text Initiative

Oct 16, 2025

Independence of CIABOC and NPC: A Question That Matters to All of Us

Imagine a system where you couldn’t trust whether justice was being served fairly, where the outcome of an investigation might depend not on the facts, but on who you know or which political side you...

By One Text Initiative