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IFJ 15 February 2021
Why January remains black for journalists in Sri Lanka
Black January has traditionally also been used to highlight impunity for these crimes. But it is also important to look at continuing violations, writes Ruki Fernando. Sri Lankan Black January protests in 2018. Credit:LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP
For many years, Sri Lankan media freedom organisations have commemorated “Black January”, recalling the numerous violations of free expression and crimes against free expression committed during the month of January. With Covid-19’s onset, this year’s Black January event took place online on January 29.
Earlier in the month, editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was killed in January 2009, was remembered by family and colleagues. After 12 years of waiting for justice, his daughter is reported to have lodged a complaint with the Switzerland-based United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC). The Committee usually accepts complaints after the exhaustion
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Posted on February 9th, 2021
Sri Lanka’s
envoy in China Dr Palitha Kohona-Journalist Chakravarthi Raghavan
When the 134-member Group of 77, the largest single
coalition of developing countries, was trying to strike a hard bargain in its
negotiations with Western nations years ago, one of its envoys famously
declared: You have the numbers. We have the money.”
But that implicit threat – signifying the power of the
purse– did not deter the G77 from playing a key role in helping shape the UN’s
socio-economic agenda, including sustainable development, environmental
protection, universal health care, South–South cooperation, eradication of
extreme poverty and hunger – all of them culminating largely in the 17