Tagged with Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka stance needs urgent rethink

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorBelle Hammond
Adjunct member of the Griffith Asia Institute,Gordon Weiss, last week publishedan opinion piece for the Newcastle Heraldcommenting on Australia’s opposition to the United Nation’s Sri Lanka war crimes investigation. Gordon Weiss isauthor of The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, and wasUN spokesman in Sri Lanka during […]

New book revisits Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Buddhism and the political landscape in Sri Lanka is the subject of a new book by a Griffith law lecturer.
Griffith Law School
Published AuthorStephen O'Grady
A line in the sand of Sri Lanka’s constitutional history was drawn in 2005 with the election of President Mahinda Rajapakse, providing the moment in time for Griffith Law School lecturer, Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, to start work on his first book. The conclusion of a long-running civil war with the defeat of the Tamil […]

Giving a voice to Sri Lanka’s migrant workers

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
The complexities facing Sri Lanka’s unions as they attempt to organise, represent, protect, provide a voice for, and respond on behalf of, a globally mobile labour force of citizens, is the focus of an USAID-funded, Solidarity Center/ Rutgers partnership for the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing’s (WOW) and Griffith Asia Institute’s (GAI)Dr Samanthi J […]

Why do Asylum Boats Keep Coming from Sri Lanka?

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorContributed
Dr Sara Davies speaks with SBS’s Naomi Selvaratnam about the number of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka. She says: “It’s not uncommon in a post-conflict situation, particularly in a situation like Sri Lanka where it was a civil war, and where the conflict was in a particular location where there was an ethnic group that […]