Gender mainstreaming and welfare of women IDPs
With the Jaffna Peninsula being liberated by the
Armed Forces and influx of refugees to the Government controlled
areas in particular, the role of looking after the welfare of women
refugees is immense. Here are extracts from an interview conducted
with the Chairperson of the National Committee on Women (NCW),
Ministry of Child Development and Women’s Empowerment Dr. Neela
Gunasekara on the welfare of women.
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The Hindu editorial May 2, 2009:
Sri Lanka: What needs to be done
There is a humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka’s
North, involving tens of thousands of Tamil civilians uprooted from
their homes or held hostage in an embattled sliver of coastal land
that barely comprises seven square km.
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Magnificent discharge of Presidential prerogatives
It is three decades since we were unexpectedly
forced to accept the novel role of presidential rule and during that
space of time, we have seen four past Presidents who tried on their
own way to hammer out an approach to the problem of the LTTE terror;
the most urgent job faced by them. Their approaches neither
bolstered national interest nor yielded tangible success as that of
what we see today.
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