Sri Lanka
From the Global Women's Network
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| Shilpa Children’s Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka | |
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Battles ahead for women
| 2011/09/08 More policies and programmes must address the needs of female-headed households in Sri Lanka's former conflict zone, experts say. "Most programmes don't take into account the unique role of women here," Saroja Sivachandran, director of the Center for Women and Development (CWD), an advocacy body based in northern Jaffna, told IRIN. Since returning to their villages in the conflict-affected north at the end of the country's 26-year-long civil war in 2009, women have found their traditional role of household chores and child-rearing expanded with the burden of making a living, rebuilding damaged houses and a host of other tasks. Read more at Integrated Regional Information Networks |
| Relates to Sri Lanka |
| Sectors: Economic Empowerment, Peace and Conflict, Poverty Alleviation |
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