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Carter Dillard

Carter Dillard is the policy adviser for the Fair Start Movement. He served as an Honors Program attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and also served with a national security law agency before developing a comprehensive account of reforming family planning for the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal.

    November 8, 2026
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka Electricity Regulator and System Operator Clash Over Proposed Tariff Increase

    A dispute has emerged between Sri Lanka’s electricity regulator and the National System Operator (NSO) over a proposed tariff increase for the final quarter of 2026, with the NSO insisting that improved

    Sri Lanka

    Port City Colombo Attracts 68 New Strategic Businesses with $167 Million in Investment Commitments

    Port City Colombo has attracted 68 new businesses designated as secondary Businesses of Strategic Importance (BSIs), with declared five-year investment commitments totalling approximately US$166.87 million, according to a technical analysis of the latest gazette disclosures. The companies include entities incorporated

    November 8, 2026

    Sri Lankan Opposition Accuses President of Diverting Attention from Controversial Crime Bill Provisions

    Judiciary/Sri Lanka

    The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has accused President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of drawing public attention to selected provisions of the proposed Prevention of Organised

    Sri Lanka Moves to Establish Trade Negotiation Committee Ahead of New FTA Talks

    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka is moving to establish a National Trade Negotiation Committee to prepare the groundwork for prospective Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations, with preliminary

    How Nations Are Built on the Backs of Disenfranchised Children

    July 24, 2025
    Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

    Nations can only legitimately use violence to police their citizens if they are simultaneously empowering them with equitable shares in democracy. When this requirement is not met, the use of violence breeds

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    The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas

    November 8, 2024
    Human Rights

    We have laws to ensure children are born into a safe, sustainable, and unpolluted environment. These laws are also meant to empower future generations and guarantee birth equity. But far from ensuring that these

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    Children’s Rights: Crucial for Climate Action and Environmental Change

    September 6, 2024
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. But the proximate cause—the underlying activity that sparked the climate crisis and

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    Conviction of Leading Animal Activist Could Ignite a Populist Revolution

    November 26, 2023
    Education

    Here’s a disturbing fact: Prosecutors in the United States charge more penalties for the activists who reveal animal cruelty crimes than they do for the factory farms that commit them. This trend

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    The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis

    November 29, 2022
    Human Rights

    In all of the news surrounding Vladimir Putin, it might have been easy to overlook that he had recently revived a Soviet-era policy called the “Mother Heroine” award, which goes to women who

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    The Sri Lanka Guardian is an online newspaper founded in August 2007 by a group of concerned Sri Lankan citizens including journalists, activists, academics and retired civil servants. Sri Lanka Guardian has registered as an online newspaper in the Government of Sri Lanka. This portal is currently a platform for over seven hundred regular writers from around the world. We are an independent and nonprofit. Email : editor@slguardian.org
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