02/23/2011
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ReliefWeb
Mr. Thibagar was displaced from his hometown of Mirissuvul, located on the Jaffna peninsula, a region of Sri Lanka devastated by more than 25 years of civil war. As a result of his displacement, he never knew how to register to vote. As a beneficiary of USAID's voter registration awareness program implemented by the Home for Human Rights (HHR), he realized the importance of voting and decided to register.
10/04/2010
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IRIN
JAFFNA, 4 October 2010 (IRIN) - More than 16 months after the Sri Lankan government ended a 26-year civil war by defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, thousands of amputees await help.
09/10/2010
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Hindustan Times
The US has suspended the training of 3000 youth from the war-ravaged northern Lankan districts in outsourcing skills. The US Agency for International Development (USAID), a government agency that provides humanitarian and economic aid worldwide, suspended the programme apparently to ensure that the