Review of “Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels” Kanchana Ruwanpura Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022 Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels by Kanchana Ruwanpura uses an analytical framing informed by labour and feminist perspectives to explore how workers are central to… Continue reading Locating Labour in Sri Lanka’s Ethical Sourcing – Shyamain Wickramasinghe
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Call for Urgent Action by the Sri Lanka Women’s NGO Forum (SLWNGOF) to alleviate the suffering of the people of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is in the grip of a collapsing economy causing immense suffering to its people. Acute food, medicine, and fuel shortages are crippling the day-to-day lives of the people, giving way to despair and frustration and driving them to the streets to express their dissent against a government that has failed them. This crumbling… Continue reading Call for Urgent Action by the Sri Lanka Women’s NGO Forum (SLWNGOF) to alleviate the suffering of the people of Sri Lanka
Federation of University Teachers’ Association speaks up on current crisis
The current momentWe are witness to an unprecedented happening in the postcolonial history of this country. Countrywide protests are calling for a change in governance and economic undertakings, including the management of public and social goods like education, health and utilities. The protests are a result of the severe shortages brought on by an imminent… Continue reading Federation of University Teachers’ Association speaks up on current crisis
Sri Lanka: No agreement with the IMF!
Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sushovan Dhar
A Sri Lankan delegation was in Washington DC over the week of 18 April to try to secure up to $4 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other lenders to help the island nation pay for food and fuel imports as well as restructure its debt. The last time the IMF provided a… Continue reading Sri Lanka: No agreement with the IMF!
Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sushovan Dhar
The Argentinian (2001) and Sri Lankan (2022) Financial Crises: Ways Forward from a Feminist Perspective – Corina Rodriguez
In response to Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic crisis, and the consensus across the political spectrum and even social classes that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bail-out and structural adjustment programme is the only short-to-medium term exit or at least breathing space for citizens, the Women and Media Collective and the Social Scientists’ Association organised an… Continue reading The Argentinian (2001) and Sri Lankan (2022) Financial Crises: Ways Forward from a Feminist Perspective – Corina Rodriguez
Statement from the Social Scientists’ Association on Sri Lanka’s Current Crisis
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing the worst economic crisis in its post-independence history. Foreign reserves of the country have dangerously dwindled, incapacitating the government to import essential supplies such as fuel, cooking gas, fertiliser, and medicine, among other things. As a result, Sri Lankans are going through unprecedented suffering. Severe shortages of almost all essential… Continue reading Statement from the Social Scientists’ Association on Sri Lanka’s Current Crisis
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදය: ව්‍යාප්ත වෙමින් පවතින මානුෂීය හදිසි තත්ත්වය සඳහා ස්ත්‍රීවාදී ප්‍රතිචාරයක් – ආර්ථික යුක්තිය සඳහා වූ ස්ත්‍රීවාදී සාමූහිකය
අසාර්ථක ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්ති සහ අඛණ්ඩ දූෂිත පාලනයේ ඉතිහාසය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මේ වන විට නිදහස ලබා ගැනීමන් පසු ඉතිහාසයේ දරුණුතම ආර්ථික අර්බුදයට මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටියි. ඉන්ධන ඇතුළු බොහෝ අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ද්‍රව්‍ය ආනයනය සඳහා ගෙවීමට විදේශ විනිමය සංචිත හිඟයකට රට පත්ව ඇති අතර එය රටේ ආර්ථිකයේ ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වයටත් එහි ජන ජීවිතය අඩාල කිරීමටත් බලපාන්නේ ය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ද්‍රවශීලතා අර්බුදයක… Continue reading ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදය: ව්‍යාප්ත වෙමින් පවතින මානුෂීය හදිසි තත්ත්වය සඳහා ස්ත්‍රීවාදී ප්‍රතිචාරයක් – ආර්ථික යුක්තිය සඳහා වූ ස්ත්‍රීවාදී සාමූහිකය
The democratic moment today: A call for action and reflection
We are witness today to events that are unprecedented in our postcolonial history. Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets spontaneously in protest; in an extraordinary demonstration of democratic fervour. The calls for change are loud and spectacular. They are driven by anger at a small elite group —the Rajapaksas, who have… Continue reading The democratic moment today: A call for action and reflection
We are all poster-makers!
“We are all poster-makers, and through them we all attest to the unrest in our souls and our will to dignity.” Anish Kapoor, The Art of Protest, 2019. Sri Lanka has a vibrant social media culture of memes and artwork with sharp political and social commentary. The #GoHomeGota22 movement has generated its own images and… Continue reading We are all poster-makers!
The #GotaGoHome Protest Movement: Significance, Potential, and Challenges – Jayadeva Uyangoda
After 31st March, 2022, Sri Lanka’s politics is no longer what it has been. It seems to have entered a qualitatively new phase. It is still too early to say anything definite about the true magnitude and future directions of this newness. Its basic character and dimensions, however, are quite clear. The ‘direct democratic’ action… Continue reading The #GotaGoHome Protest Movement: Significance, Potential, and Challenges – Jayadeva Uyangoda