State Minister of Child Affairs Rosy Senanayake met with British Deputy High Commissioner Laura Davis recently. During the meeting, they discussed the early childhood development and child protection training exchange program and implementation with the assistance of the British Government.
 

‘HOME, SWEET HOME': Members of a Northern family, displaced by war and an imposed ‘High Security Zone’, wander forlornly through the overgrown rubble mound that is all that is left of their childhood home. The family, now returning to re-claim their homestead after 30 years of displacement, were allowed last week to visit the newly released properties in Kopay, Jaffna as the security forces vacated them in the ongoing phasing out of the High Security Zones. Some 236 acres of land in Valalai in the Kopay Pradeshiya Sabha area are being returned to owners. Returning families found little but rubble and jungle left. Pic: K. Navaratnarajah, Mallakam Gr. Cor.

Twenty-two Sri Lankan women from Mannar and Batticaloa, including Sandhya, the wife of journalist Pradeep Ekneligoda, demonstrated opposite the office of the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner (UNHRC) in Geneva recently. They displayed sarees with painted slogans highlighting the case of their missing family members, at the protest organised by the Amnesty International.