Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th September 2025
The United Nations Charter enshrines principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention, and adherence to mandates. Yet for over sixteen years, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has passed a series of resolutions on Sri Lanka...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th September 2025
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006 (GA Resolution 60/251) with noble intentions: to promote universality, impartiality, and cooperation protecting human rights. Yet in practice within less than 2...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st September 2025
A UN Constitutional Crisis For over 15 years, Sri Lanka has been subjected to an unprecedented series of UNHRC resolutions simply for ending 30 years of terrorism. These resolutions have been based...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Sri Lanka Politics / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st September 2025
The Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances has issued a letter to the UNHRC Head on 30 August 2025 appealing to the “international community”. Claims of “enforced disappearances” in Sri Lanka are...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th August 2025
Sri Lanka’s current economic collapse cannot be understood in isolation. It is tied to the 2015 regime change, orchestrated with heavy involvement of the United States and India, which removed the Mahinda Rajapaksa government...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th August 2025
In 2 decades, Sri Lanka’s economy has passed through dramatic cycles – growth, stagnation, and collapse. Each government inherited both assets and liabilities from its predecessor, and the choices made during their rule...
Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th August 2025
The past 2 decades has seen a surge in the ideological promotion of LGBTQIA++ globally in schools, across media and even entering public policy. The cost of the damage to individuals & society...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th August 2025
Sri Lanka is the only UN member state targeted for successive UNHRC resolutions after successfully ending a 30-year terrorist conflict. Instead of recognition for defeating terrorism-a feat no other nation has achieved,...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th August 2025
Hambantota Port has been wrongly portrayed as a symbol of China’s “debt trap diplomacy.” In truth, it was a strategic infrastructure investment, misrepresented by local and foreign actors with geopolitical agendas. Here are...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th August 2025
The entrapment of the Global South did not begin with debt — it began with conquest. The Papal Bulls (edicts issued by the Pope) of the late 15th century gave Western explorers divine...
