From Spain’s Riders Law to Singapore’s new Platform Workers Bill, countries are beginning to rethink what flexibility and fairness mean in the age of algorithmic work. This is becoming crucial because the next chapter of the gig economy will not be written by apps or algorithms, but by how societies choose to value those who keep them running.

Sri Lankan urban women face multifaceted impacts from heat stress. Women are disproportionately affected by extreme heat due to a variety of factors, including health risks, additional care burdens, and a lack of gender-targeted resource support. Heat stress adaptation policies need to provide gender-specific targeted responses to better serve women.

Criminalisation is often understood narrowly—as something that happens after a crime, involving police, courts, and prisons. But we argue that criminalisation is not only about breaking laws; it is about how laws are written, where suspicion is cast, and which bodies are deemed out of place. A critical example of the criminalisation of poverty is Colombo’s Urban Regeneration Project (URP) of the Government of Sri Lanka and implemented by the Urban Development Authority since 2012, which reveals that criminalisation extends beyond incarceration; it includes the transformation of poor people's living environments into carceral spaces themselves.

Sri Lanka is a state party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), obligated to progressively realise rights such as adequate food, housing, health, education, and social security. Despite clear obligations, Sri Lanka’s track record shows a persistent gap between formal commitments and reality.

Hostile architecture  is unpleasant or exclusionary architecture or defensive urban design, that uses elements of the built environment to guide or restrict behaviour, particularly intending to stop people from doing something. We map Colombo's public spaces that have hostile infrastructure and do a deep dive on the topic.

A new report by CSF explores multiple dimensions of platform-based gig work in Sri Lanka, drawing on primary research since 2023 and building on previous research conducted in 2022. The report titled, 'Flexibility and Fairness in Platform Labour: Navigating Gig Work in Colombo' delves into issues not explored in the Sri Lankan context before, and provides fresh insights relevant for platform companies, worker rights organisations, international development agencies, and government institutions.