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Ashraf Nagar: The courageous struggle of peasants against the forcible land acquisition in Ampara District
A Statement by Women’s Action Network
Ashraf Nagar’s inhabitants can trace back their history to 1952 when it consisted of the following small villages -Aalim Nagar, Vilankadu, Kasangkeni, Muthiriyadiwattai, Pallak Kadu, Sinna Pallakkadu, Kattu Vattai, Ali Mudakadu and Aalim Chennai. Ashraf Nagar’s name was changed in the year 2006 to Oluvil first division and even though […]
Sri Lanka: Tamil Women Coerced into Joining the Military
Women’s Action Network (WAN), as a collective of 11 women’s groups from the North and the
East, is deeply concerned by the recent efforts to recruit women into the military in the districts of Killinochchi and Mullaitheevu.
Post-war development has failed to provide the most basic needs for those who live in Killinochchi and Mullaitheevu, especially the […]
Women in Sri Lanka speak out against the recent spate of attacks on women, impunity and the breakdown of rule of law
This report is based on interviews given by affected women and women’s organisations working in the North and East.
In the month of August 2011 many women in the north and the east have been attacked individually, and the female
population terrorized more generally, by unidentified men, attackers now colloquially referred to as ‘Grease Yakas’. These incidents […]
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