Freedom of expression and fundamental rights

Contemporary media ethics

Admin March 18, 2021

Heshani Karunaratne Mass media is a crucial tool utilized to provide information regarding an incident or people related to it. Media ethics are the principles or guidelines that govern all forms of media such as broadcast media, film, drama, print media and the internet. The above mentioned

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Breaking Imagined Walls that Became Real: Importance of Urban Peacebuilding

Admin March 18, 2021

Kithmini M. Ranaweera Where does ‘sustained peace’ start in Sri Lanka? It starts with the first blow to the seemingly real yet imagined walls that have been confining Sri Lankan identity over the course of our history. Mostly power-oriented, regional tensions and internal power struggles in ancient Sri Lanka were often misinterpreted as righteous quests […]

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Enforced Cremations: Where are We Heading?

Admin March 18, 2021

Rasma Razmi Values build our lives. They distinguish us from animals. Values vary from person to person; religion to religion and so on. What unites us as mankind is respecting and protecting each other’s values. Covid 19 has crushed our lives at different levels. It has cost many lives, destroyed the livelihood of people. This […]

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The fine line between Freedom of Expression and Right to Privacy

Admin March 18, 2021

Radhini The right to freedom of expression, since its indoctrination in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, has been universally accepted as a feature of a democratic society. It can be argued that human rights have been at the core of some of the world’s most progressive movements which brought about crucial and […]

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Buddhism’s Teachings on Fake News

Admin March 18, 2021

Amanda N. Perera Dissemination of Fake News has a deep archive. Anything from “Vidane vomited seven crows” to “poison mixed into waterways by extremists” is fake news. News is synonymous with credible reports, announcements, and press releases. But this is not always the case. The government has issued myriad legal guidelines on tackling fake news. […]

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Is there a Conflict between Freedom of Religion and Other Human Rights?

Admin March 18, 2021

Pavithrani Dissanayake Observing a religion of their choice is a right of all the people. Therefore people get the freedom of observing any religion of their choice as well as the right of not observing any religion at all. Religion cannot be detached from humans. The bond between religion and human activities is an ancient […]

Freedom of expression and fundamental rights

Freedom of Expression and Fundamental Rights

Admin March 18, 2021

K.P.P Chamathka “Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.” ~Benjamin Franklin~ The right to speech and expression is the right of man to communicate his ideas orally or through any other means. The right to freedom of expression is enshrined in many international and regional human […]

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Extrajudicial killings: a threat to society

Admin March 17, 2021

Dini Fernando The people who read books and watch movies have encountered the term ‘police encounter’. It is related to Hindi and Tamil cinema. Police encounter is a term mostly used in countries like India and Pakistan, but extrajudicial killings meant by it is a worldwide menace. Extrajudicial killings are reported from countries like the […]

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Health Communication and Media Responsibility

Admin March 17, 2021

Kamani Hettiarachchi The whole world is currently living with the expectation of getting a relief from the prevailing pandemic situation due to Covid 19. Some consultant physicians predict that the world will have to live with this pandemic at least for a few more years. Most of the countries are in confusion whether to pause […]

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Is sexual abuse of boys to be laughed at?

Admin March 17, 2021

Ahsan Afthar Child sexual abuse in Sri Lanka is nothing new. There are plenty of stories that school going students are abused by school teachers. But the story of a female teacher abusing a 15-year-old schoolboy last October turned out to be shocking news and became a matter of joke among many men. The teacher […]