Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his aides/cronies rode themselves into power, promising to bring justice to the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks and their grieving families, when they orchestrated the attacks all along, to the surprise of no one. Never forget. thetimes.co.uk/article/rajapa…

Ethnonational Sinbuds when they try to make a point about 'not being racist', 'we are all SRI LANKAN', and being 'trilingual because I learnt it in school' :

Priskila core member of Youth Advocacy Network Sri Lanka talking about the history and politics of safe abortion rights and access. She shares that we have to rely on old data due to lack of research & the no of unsafe abortions today, would be much higher! #Abortionrights #decriminalize

1/ #OnlineSafetyBill What is the purpose of the proposed Online Safety law? To create a climate of fear and prevent people from criticizing or challenging the govt.

T/W Rape: apparently y’all wanna talk law and Justice veiling your misogynistic agenda that waits to pounce on any chance to further diminish women: 95% of rapists walk free from Court, only 0.70% ever result in a conviction. Does that mean they are not guilty of the crime? Nope.

It’s happening today!!! Come join us as we discuss how the Proposed Online Safety Bill and how it can affect different communities in Sri Lanka. #OnlineSafetyBillLK

The proposed #OnlineSafetyBill (OSB) uses the protection of women and girls as a guise to curtail the #freedomofexpression, particularly #dissent expressed through online platforms. Read the full article- tinyurl.com/2p848bnh Priskila

Activists and rights organizations are raising concerns about the proposed #OnlineSafety Bill's potential impacts on freedom of expression in the #digitalage. Learn more in this article by Priskila and Shelani Palihawadana. 📢 Read it here 👇 themorning.lk/articles/JzyL0…

the deep irony of why this institution was established and the horrifying reality of how it has always just been bureaucratised smoke and mirror ‘consensus’. I am so done with this world.

Letter sent to the IGP now with regard to the blatant incitement being spewed and given wide publicity in the media:

This image has gone viral in pro-Isreal circles, claiming to show a fake Palestinian corpse caught texting on his phone. Let's go through the image verification process step-by-step, using Google's reverse image search. Where does the photo come from and what's the context?

Cute momma-baby 😻

#Gaza #Palestine 👇🏽provides some insight into reasons people join armed groups. Despite countries pouring millions of $ into programmes to ‘prevent violent extremism’, why do we see little/no impact? Because these programmes don’t address root causes and drivers of violence.

The proposed Online Safety Bill represents a threat to academic freedom and producing historical research in #SriLanka. I argue that the powers of politically appointed Commissioners to decide what is truth and false is severely harmful to public history in #lka.

Join the discussion to see how transformative education be used to address our common global challenges and local decision makers be involved in it's investment! This Thursday at 9.00 pm Philippines time! #globalcitizenshipeducation #transformativeeducation #education4peace

#Tomorrow Hope you're all ready for this conversations as we unpack abortion laws in former colonies & understand how advocates in these countries, even after so many years, are working hard to ensure access to this service for all! IPPF South Asia Region FPAIndia Fòs Feminista Youth Advocacy Network Sri Lanka

sharing this for anyone who might want to learn more about the mass atrocities of the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war. This exhibition was put together by ITJP & T E M P L O using testimony and photographs collected from survivors of 2009 itjpsl.com/reports/war-on…

Finally, Natasha too - discharged from all charges! #ICCPR #Freedom

three political dynasties rejected at once today. they're not gone, by any means. but what a blow to dynastic politics in SL. (one hopes)