A United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) report titled Investing in the future: A universal benefit for Sri Lanka’s children has revealed some of the dire conditions facing ...

Walk through any Sri Lankan town and you’ll hear it before you see it—the familiar hum of the three-wheeler, or “tuk-tuk,” ...

This post was first published by Sri Lankan academician Professor Wasantha Athukorala in Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website. An edited version is published here as part of a ...

Earlier this month, Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya ceremoniously unveiled their government’s Prajashakthi (Community Power) policy, declaring it would ...

(Bloomberg) -- Two years after an economic meltdown almost doubled the rate of poverty in Sri Lanka, the island nation is holding an election to choose a new president. The Sept. 21 vote is shaping up ...

(New York) – Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is driving millions of people into poverty, jeopardizing their rights to health, education, and an adequate standard of living, Human Rights Watch said today.

By bno - Mark Buckton - Taipei Sri Lanka’s recovery over the past year reads like a narrow escape rendered into a cautious, ...

Sri Lanka hangs on the precipice of losing its much-lauded educational achievements after two and half years of interrupted learning from COVID-19 and now an economic collapse. Often viewed as a model ...

In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family’s last remaining handful of dried fish – a reminder of Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in decades. She is just one of the ...