Fifty Women Development Officers appointed

Nipuni WIMALAPALA

Child Development and Women's Affairs Ministry has appointed 50 new Women Development Officers who commenced their duties on January 2. All the appointments are on a permanent basis and 40 of them have been posted to Northern and Eastern Provinces.

According to Minister Tissa Karaliyadde, the newly appointed Women Development Officers will undergo special training and once they complete their training they would conduct awareness programmes for women in rural areas. "I wish to take measures to establish "Children and Women Bureaus in all the police stations of Northern and Eastern Provinces to make both children and women more secure", the minister stressed.

"I have suggested to make an amendment to the prevailing abortion law under the advocacy of the Health Ministry. My suggestion is to allow abortion under pregnancy complications such as underage pregnancies, abnormal embryos, pregnancies caused by of rape close relatives", he further noted.