Children before Everything Else Interview with Hon. State Minister, Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle in celebration of Children’s Day October 2021 A study reveals that only 30% of the children in Sri Lanka have access to online education. Considering the importance of education in Sri Lanka and given our longstanding history of providing free-education to all children…
“සියලුදේට ප්‍රථමව දරුවන්” කොවිඩ් වසංගත සහ පශ්චාත් කොවිඩ් වසංගත සමාජයක දරුවන්ගේ යහපැවැත්ම සහ සුභසිද්ධිය ලඟා කරගැනීම සම්බන්ධව ගරු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රිනී රෝහිණි විජේරත්න සමඟ සාකච්ඡාව ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ ළමයින්ගෙන් 30%-40% කට පමණක් අධ්‍යාපනය සඳහා අන්තර්ජාල ප‍්‍රවේශය ඇති බවට අධ්‍යනයකින් අනාවරණය වී තිබේ. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපනයේ වැදගත්කම සහ සියලූ දරුවන්ට එක හා සමානව නොමිලේ අධ්‍යාපනය ලබා දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්…
Interview with Hon. Dr. Harini Amarasuriya in celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child, International Day of the Elderly and International Day of Rural Women October 2021 How has the pandemic impacted on the safety, rights and opportunities of the girl child? Globally, they are talking about a shadow pandemic where domestic violence…
Interview with Hon. Mrs. Thalatha Athukorale (Attorney-at-Law), in celebration of Children’s Day, International Day of the Girl Child, International Day of the Elderly and International Day of Rural Women October 2021 With the drastic increase of domestic abuse cases being reported during the pandemic, what kind of impact has it made on children of such…
What is your view on the current youth unemployment crisis and what needs to be done to address it? We find that the majority of young people under the age of 35 in the country are unemployed. Although this has increased with the covid situation, we find that the education system of our country is…
In your opinion, are we developing the right kind of higher education that caters to the modern needs of society? No, I don’t think so. We have to start at the school education level. From a very young stage, children should be trained to meet the needs of the modern-day employment. So, skills like IT…
වර්තමාන තරුණ සේවා වියුක්ති අර්බුදය සම්බන්දව සහ එය විසඳීම සඳහා කුමක් කළ යුතුද යන්න ඔබතුමියගේ අදහස කුමක්ද? රටේ සිටිනා අවුරුදු 35ට අඩු තරුණ තරුණියන් ගත් කල බහුතරයකට රැකියා නොමැති බව අපට පෙනී යනවා. කොවිඩ් තත්වය සමඟ මෙය තීව්‍ර වී ඇති වුවත් අප රටේ දැනුම පමණක් මූලික කරගෙන නිර්මාණය වී ඇති අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමය, වැඩ ලෝකය සඳහා…
What is your opinion about the current youth unemployment crisis in Sri Lanka? Do you agree with the findings of the Report of the Presidential Commission on Youth (1990) chaired by Professor G.L. Peiris? After 3 decades, are the said findings still relevant and applicable to the current society? There are two main narratives that…
Why do you think it is still so difficult to engage women in politics? The majority of the women in Parliament have come into power through their husbands or fathers. They have basically come to represent a male colleague who in most cases have passed away prematurely. This is mainly due to the patriarchal society…
1. What prompted you to get into politics? I was always politically active but I wasn’t involved in party politics. I was part of a trade union and I was a social activist. I gradually got involved in policy making relating to the JVP and some organizations linked to the JVP. We discussed the forming…