Social media and human rights:
Opportunities for reshaping democratic engagement
Social media has exploded and touches many lives
across most continents. Connecting people using a myriad of
applications across varied platforms, the exponential growth of this
media, heralds in a new age of participatory engagement which can
truly be said to be the advent of Web 2.0. The participatory nature
of this development using more user input and content and
interactivity as opposed to one way information flows, is both
exciting and challenging,
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Political Revery
Leopard’s spots and Mr Hyde?
Martin Luther King, in his famous speech from
the Lincoln memorial said: ‘I have a dream that one day this nation
will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold
these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal”...
Let Freedom ring!’
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The Sri Maha Bodhi - time-tested icon of Buddhism
During the period of the Kandyan Kings, the most
important centres of ritual were the Temple of the Tooth,
Mahiyangana Thupa and the Sumanakuta. Nevertheless, Anuradhapura had
not completely lost its importance. In the beginning of the 19th
century, Major Forbes stated that the Jaya Siri Maha Bodhin Vahanse
was the principal object of veneration to the numerous pilgrims who
visited Anurahapura,
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