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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