Libby Powell is with the Mines Advisory Group who are teaching children perhaps their most important lesson: mine awareness.
Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka-Maldives relations put to the test
Despite offering sanctuary to the ousted Maldivian president’s family, Sri Lanka’s government is hedging its bets on the islands’ future.
- Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
- February 21, 2012
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Iranian oil embargo has a nasty ripple effect
Dependent on oil from Iran, but with the US its largest trading partner, Sri Lanka is stuck between a rock and a hard place, reports Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.
Filed in: Iran Nuclear Power Oil Sri Lanka
- Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
- February 9, 2012
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Reconstructing peace
- Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
- January 1, 2006
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Squatter citizens
Profiles from the frontlines: the politics of survival in some of the world’s grittiest slums.
Filed in: Activism Cities Egypt Housing India Nigeria Philippines Poverty Sri Lanka Venezuela
- January 1, 2006
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Just chocolate
Grenada’s revolutionary fair trade
Filed in: Activism Caribbean China Climate Change Corporations Environment Fair Trade Grenada Iraq Israel Land Language Oil Palestine South Africa Sri Lanka Trade Venezuela Women Zimbabwe
- Dylan Mathews
- December 1, 2005
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Sri Lankan ecosystems in dire straits
Government to halt a controversial ship canal project.
Filed in: Conservation Oceans Sri Lanka
- Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
- November 1, 2005
- 0
Flowers on the razor wire
Chris Richards reports from the frontline of nonviolent action’s newest frontier.
Filed in: Activism Non-Violence Peace Sri Lanka
- Chris Richards
- August 1, 2005
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The challenge to violence
Alternatives to violence can get better results. So why aren’t we using them? Chris Richards goes to Sri Lanka and finds out.
Filed in: Non-Violence Peace Sri Lanka Violence
- Chris Richards
- August 1, 2005
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Dhanushka Amarasekara
The dream of dance, captured by Sri Lanka’s Dhanushka Amarasekara.
Filed in: Sri Lanka
- Dhanushka Amarasekara
- March 1, 2004
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Currents
Filed in: Agriculture Animals Cambodia Culture Debt Food Ghana Language Mexico Morocco Sri Lanka Water Western Sahara
- August 5, 2001
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