Climate change
Using science-based information to guide
policy-making:
Speaking as I do from an Asian perspective - a
continent in which several developing states, including small island
developing states are located - such timely and comprehensive
information sharing is vitally important not only to the well-being
and developmental processes, benefiting communities and peoples, but
also to address core issues of survival of some of the most
vulnerable segments of national populations.
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IDPs in Sri Lanka: The untold story
Insurgency has its causes and reasons but not
terrorism. In the early stages of the conflict there were many
insurgent groups and all of them except one chose democracy to serve
its people. That one is the LTTE which transformed itself from
insurgency into terrorism.
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On My Watch - Luclen Rajakarunanayake
Brazen contempt of truth and justice
There is a rowdy raving today about the
sentencing of Tissainayagam and even calls for an immediate pardon
by the President even before the ink is dry on the order given by
the learned High Court Judge, and with not even a scrap of paper
being produced as to why the President should, exercise his
prerogative in this instance alone, when there are many others found
guilty of involvement with terrorism
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