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Sri Lanka’s president just resigned after months of protest and a deepening economic crisis.

Sri Lanka is facing record inflation and unemployment, the likes of which haven't been seen in 74 years. But the crisis has united a nation that's long been divided along ethnic and religious lines — all to oust the political family they blame for the disaster.

This article is based on “Law is Light” – a series of trilingual legal discussions to educate the general public with Attorneys-at-law of Sri Lanka. This is organised by the Pro Bono committee of the Law Students’ Association of Sri Lanka. The panellists for the discussion on Gender Based Violence were: Aritha Wickramasinghe – AAL and Equality Director at iProbono. He leads the organisation’s LGBT access to justice work and has been a pioneering activist in the field of diversity an...