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Eve’s monologues undermine women’s movement

WE READ or hear about rape and also killing after rape occurring in different areas of the country every day. Rape and killing are direct physical attack on a woman’s body but violence against women is more than just rape and killing. Others forms of... Full story

Sri Lanka: Three challenges for new chief justice

Sri Lankan lawyers shout at police officers as they are prevented from entering the Supreme Court in Colombo on January 15. Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday appointed the government’s senior legal advisor Mohan Peiris as a replacement for the impeached chief brushing off protests from lawyers and rights group. Peiris was sworn-in before the president shortly after parliament approved his appointment with immediate effect, an official of the president’s press office said. — AFP photo
The collapse of the public resistance to the impeachment would have come as a surprise to those who believed in the theory of legal processes and the primacy of the rule of law. Those who saw the impeachment in terms of the three great... Full story


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