2021 පෙබරවාරි මස 11 වන බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා කොළඹ- ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දේශපාලන බල අරගලයේ එක් පියවරක් ලෙස පී2පී පාගමන නිදහසින් පසු වසර 30 ක් පමණ ගත වූ තැන සිට මෙරට දේශපාලන බලාධිකාරයේ බොහෝ වෙනස්වීම් සඳහා බලපෑ තීරක සාධකයක් ලෙස අයිතීන් මුල්කරගන්නා ලද අරගලයන් හේතු වී ඇති බව පෙනී යන අතර එය සුළු ජාතික අයිතිවාසිකම්, භාෂා අයිතීන් , …
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A conversation with a representative from the LGBTQ+ community 1. COVID 19 has popularised statements like “stay home, stay safe”, but obviously this is not the case for everyone in this country. What are some ways in which staying home would be unsafe for LGBTQ+ people during the pandemic? LGBTQ+ youth are already at a …
Incident 1: Convicted murderer, death row inmate, Premalal Jayasekara was given permission by the Appeals Court on the 7th of September to attend sittings in Parliament. He was convicted of murder by the Court on 30th July, a few days before the General Election. However, he secured a seat in Parliament obtaining over 142,000 preferential …
A JOINT COMMUNIQUE BY PEOPLE’S ACTION FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS (PAFFREL) AND HASHTAG GENERATION TO FACEBOOK INC. The below is a joint communique by People’s Action for Free and Fair Election (PAFFREL) and Hashtag Generation with observations from the 2019 Presidential Election and looking at the impending 2020 General Election. The communique was shared …
Analysis: Covid-19 Response by Country Here is an analysis done by our social media analyst Prihesh Ratnayake on the responses by 113 countries to the COVID 19 pandemic. There have been many analyses produced on the Coronavirus Outbreak and the global response to the pandemic. Our intentionality is to conduct an analysis based on the …
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By Shreen Abdul Saroor Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269 Catholic and Christian worshippers and tourists, shattering our collective sense of unity and togetherness. Families celebrating Christianity’s holiest day and tourists visiting our beautiful shores were massacred by those who claimed Islam only …
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Let’s have a quick look at what got attention in March, 2020. The Hashtag Generation team has been monitoring social media for a while and there has rarely been a dull day! While social media is limited to the digital space, we believe that its impacts can have an effect on life much beyond the …