Tired but resolute, dozens of Tamil cattle farmers have held a round-the-clock vigil for almost three years in eastern Sri Lanka, protesting what they call land "theft". Land ownership disputes ...

Tired but resolute, dozens of Tamil cattle farmers have held a round-the-clock vigil for almost three years in eastern Sri ...

Kumarakulasingham Dinojan, 15, right, who lost his left hand below his wrist and has damaged fingers in his right hand from a mine blast six years ago, spends time with his brother Vilvaraj Jethurshan ...

Securing property rights is crucial to prevent abuse on land ownership in post-conflict situations. Fulbright fellow Ruth Canagarajah from Sri Lanka analyzes the impact of military land grabs on her ...

A Sri Lankan monk who allegedly cleared over 1,500 acres of forest for quarries and crops now faces a Supreme Court order to ...

Sri Lanka aims to increase the share of land allocated for industrial activities from the current 0.03 percent to at least ...

On September 1, 2022, debt-trapped Sri Lanka reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 48-month Extended Fund Facility of $2.9 billion, which hardly covers the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, November 6 (UNHCR) - Three-and-a-half years after Sri Lanka's civil war ended, fresh challenges have emerged as people continue to return home. The UN refugee agency is working ...

The story goes that in 2011 Sri Lanka’s then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa looked out from the land reclamation site of Colombo's emerging South Container Terminal and had an epiphany: why not just keep ...

MANKULAM, Sri Lanka — Thavarathnam Pushparani fought on the front lines for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels against the Sri Lankan forces in its decadeslong separatist war and later took to ...