Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country.

“Sri Lanka is a distorted electoral democracy, and the protesters challenged elite politics. However, this creative and non-violent protest campaign cannot be compared with the recent protests ...

In both cases, the consolidated student body was central to the protest movements and over-represented at the sharp end of confrontations with security forces. In Sri Lanka, there is a tendency to ...

In Sri Lanka, protests against the government began from March 2022, ignited by a severe economic crisis. Citizens were experiencing power cuts and fuel, food, and medicine shortages, along with ...

which provoked mass protests and forced the former pre... COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future of the South ...

Months of protests - called the "aragalaya" (struggle ... such events would have been unthinkable. Getty Images Sri Lanka's foreign reserves fell to $20m in 2022, triggering an economic crisis ...

Just two years after the April-July 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka, neighbouring Bangladesh has been convulsed by mass protests during July-August 2024, sending shock waves through the ruling ...

had been involved in protests over issues such as enforced disappearances. In May, Human Rights Watch met with relatives of disappeared people throughout north and east Sri Lanka, mostly the wives ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential ... which provoked mass protests and forced the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign.

But since Sri Lanka introduced the universal franchise ... "Women are campaigners, they are in protests ... but there is a block when it comes to decision-making." Beeswarm plot showing the ...

As we approach a month of Sheikh Hasina's fall in Bangladesh, Dr Jayadeva Uyangoda, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, speaks to Ramisa Rob of ...