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  1. Sri Lanka鈥檚 new government and the challenges of a democratic transition

    and increasingly undermined by rising education and health costs, and cuts to welfare programs. ... press freedom, including repressive laws like the Online Safety Act 聽and the draconian Prevention of ... farmers, students, women, disability rights, human rights, media freedom and ecological campaigns 鈥 will be ...

  2. Behind the left victory in Sri Lanka

    rising authoritarianism. Wickramasinghe was instrumental in crushing the popular uprising towards ... a revamped PTA and an 鈥渙nline safety鈥 bill, further restricting freedom of speech and association. The ... rolling back the anti-democratic policies of the previous president, particularly to protect freedom of ...

  3. Sri Lanka: Debt restructuring and restraining dissent

    efforts to curtail fundamental freedoms of speech, association and dissent. This attack on basic human ... jobs. A key component of sky-rocketing costs is the rising price of electricity, implemented as ... protests and dissent. The main protests have targeted pension reforms and rising costs of living. Farmers ...

  4. Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity

    2022 and this is projected to rise to US$64 billion or 79% of GDP by 2026. The main creditors are in ... unions, along with middle-class聽professionals, staged numerous strikes in March against a rise in income ... tax. They also demanded lower bank interest rates, in a context of rising costs of living. Port workers ...

  5. Sri Lanka: Austerity for the masses, impunity for the robbers

    (2005鈥15). With Maithripala Sirisena from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party as President, and Ranil from the UNP as ... contributed to the present economic crisis. Particularly since the early 2000s, the rising power of the ...