Wolfgang Kaleck is a lawyer and author who founded the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin in 2007 and is now its Secretary General. He has published several books, including Law versus Power (2018), which has been translated into four languages. Kaleck became known to a wider public through his work representing the whistleblower Edward Snowden. In 2020/22, Kaleck was a visiting lecturer at the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at CUNY School of Law in New York. In recognition of his human rights work, he has received several awards, including the Bassiouni Justice Award and the Hermann Kesten Prize from the PEN Center Germany.
Sri Lanka’s senior Buddhist prelates deserve credit for ending the ten-day protest without overturning a court ruling. Yet the episode reveals how religious authority can be exploited for political ends, how vengeance
Former Sri Lankan parliamentarian Gevindu Cumaratunga has called on the government to explain the objectives of its proposed new Constitution, questioning what Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya means by an “all-inclusive” constitutional framework and how it would address the causes of
Sri Lanka has provided medical assistance to 27 Iranian sailors who fell ill aboard Iranian crude oil tankers anchored off the country’s southern coast,
Sri Lanka is expected to experience continued rainfall over the next several days as a depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into
Following excerpts adapted from the author’s recent book, Concrete Utopia: Looking Back Into The Future Of Human Rights, published by OR books. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity
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