Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category

That’s the name of the song done by Paranoid Earthling for the World Peace Day 2008. It’s youtubed for your viewing pleasure:

The video comes from the Young Asia Telivision Youtube channel, who is now putting out some quality material up there. BB is also on youtube, if anyone wants to subscribe.
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September 21st is the International Day of Peace. The story of one British film maker’s quest to make that day be accepted by the United Nations is an inspirational one. His organization, Peace One Day, tries to create global awareness of the day and promote individual action for peace throughout the world September 21st every […]



We were most Impressed with the set of  (draft) guidelines put together by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program on the “Principles of Meaningful Youth Participation”. In our work in the sphere of youth-led development both in Sri Lanka and internationally, we have encountered two basic views among young people in their understanding of […]



The official publication of Beyond Borders India is out now. From the inside cover:
Beyond Borders India are young change makers who have resolved to challenge the existing restrictive order. As the decision-makers of tomorrow we should not only be aware of our own responsibilities but should remind others about their duty as well.
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Forum Theatre crew of Beyond Borders performed a revised version of “wrong Turn”, a forum theatre based on a poverty theme. The play was performed in ja-ela by invitation of the Law & Society Trust on the 26th of April, 2008. The play, intially produced on behalf of a CEPA event, was done in Sinhala […]



Filed Under (Activism, Beyond Borders, Colombo, National Youth Policy, POLITICS, Policy, Sri Lanka, Youth, Youth-Culture-Society) by pinkboxinggloves on March-26-2008

1. Appoint a committee
of professors, such-like.

2. Do extensive consultations and research for years.
Copy-pasting from Youth Policies which have been drafted following extensive consultations and research, also qualifies as “extensive consultation and research.”
3. Launch the policy
If you’ve done the extensive consultation and research as mentioned in step 2, the launch of the draft should be followed […]



Young people in South Asia and in particular Sri Lanka are disillusioned with both mainstream and alternative spaces for political action says K.Guruparan speaking at the International Conference on Youth and Democracy in South Asia in Pune, India.
Guru was presenting a paper on youth participation in decision making and policy making processes using Sri […]



The Sri Lanka Youth Parliament is a youth led, youth run initiative, whose aim is to mobilize and create a network of young people to bring about positive and sustainable change to issues that affect youth and their communities in Sri Lanka .
The first step towards this endeavor was the ‘first sitting of the […]



Filed Under (Abortion, Activism, Colombo, Feminism, GBV, Law, Opinions, POLITICS, Sex - Sexuality - Gender, Sri Lanka, Women, Youth) by Deane on December-30-2007

Does the legal system cater to women? Many feminist don’t believe it does. Which could be agreed upon as the law provides inadequate protection for women’s injuries, which are among the most under reported crimes in the world.Why it is that Sexual harassment was not considered an offense for a long time? And pornography is […]