09/09/2011
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BBC
All children's homes in Sri Lanka should be closed down because of "rampant" abuse, the head of the country's child protection body says.
05/12/2011
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Sri Lanka Mirror
Radhika Coomaraswamy has said that she would recuse herself if the reference to children in the Lankan conflict as referred to in the UN expert panel report was brought up by a member state.
02/10/2011
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O.C. Register
In May 2009, Irvine resident Kiara Gunawardhana turned 7, and during her birthday celebration, she heard that the Sri Lankan government had won the war against terrorism.
10/15/2010
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BBC
Child rights activists in Sri Lanka criticise a plan to ordain 2,600 boys as Buddhist monks, saying they are too young and could be abused.
08/14/2010
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SOS Children's Villages Canada
14/8/2010 - At least 30 and as many as 50 of the 490 Tamil refugees arriving in Vancouver yesterday are children.
07/15/2010
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Science Daily
ScienceDaily (July 15, 2010) — Two studies on children in Sri Lanka who survived the 2004 tsunami and ongoing civil war there found that it's not these stressful events alone that contributed to the youths' psychological health, but also daily stressors like domestic violence that are exacerbated by traumatic events and continue after the disasters.
06/10/2010
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World Socialist Web Site
Recently released surveys reveal that acute malnutrition is rife among Sri Lankan children and women, as a result of the country’s 30-year civil war and widespread poverty throughout the country.
Data from a Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) by Sri Lanka’s health ministry, published in the state-owned Daily News on May 29, revealed that child malnutrition is more than 50 percent in some areas of the East and North, with the national average at a record 29 percent.