The Parliament of Norway is set to hold a formal debate this week on Sri Lanka’s political trajectory and human rights record, one year after the country’s most recent elections.
The University of Jaffna has joined a widening campaign across the Tamil homeland opposing both Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and a newly proposed counter-terrorism law, as resistance intensifies against what campaigners describe as the continuation of repressive state powers.
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) politician Namal Rajapaksa has held a series of smaller meetings across the United Kingdom with sections of the Sinhala diaspora, after both the Oxford Union and Cambridge Union cancelled planned speaking engagements with him this week.
Scottish independence is “within reach”, First Minister John Swinney has said, as a new poll projects the Scottish National Party just one seat short of a majority ahead of this year’s Holyrood election.
A United Nations fact-finding mission has determined that atrocities carried out during the siege and takeover of the Sudanese city of El Fasher bear the “hallmarks of genocide”, condemning the conduct of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters in Darfur during the ongoing conflict.
The 32nd anniversary of the killing of Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy was commemorated on Wednesday at St Mary’s Grounds in Kaddaikadu, where relatives and locals gathered in remembrance.
Two civil society organisations operating in the North-East have been summoned by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID), in what activists warn is the latest move in an escalating pattern of surveillance and intimidation targeting Tamil civic space.
An Up-Country People’s Front parliamentarian has drawn attention to the period of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) control in the North-East as he backed tougher legal measures to tackle the island’s illicit drug crisis.
A protest was held in Point Pedro on Saturday, marking nineteen years since the enforced disappearance of Tamil journalist and teacher Subramaniam Ramachandran, who was arrested by Sri Lankan military personnel and has not been seen since.
Some 500 Sinhala Buddhist monks gathered in Colombo on 20 February 2026 for a “Maha Sangha Convention” at the headquarters of the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress (ACBC), adopting a ten-point declaration that reasserts the primacy of Buddhism within the Sri Lankan state.
