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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people in Sri Lanka

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  Children and armed conflict in the northeastern part of the Island of Sri Lanka

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  This report by the Child Protection Authority of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Peace Secretariat documents and discusses the role of children in the armed conflict in Northeast Sri Lanka.
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  Swept under the rug: abuses against domestic workers around the world

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  Abuses of children and women domestic workers - many of them migrant workers - are widespread, but increased awareness of the problem has not yet resulted in concerted government action to address it.
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  Making children’s rights work: country profiles on Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam

  International Bureau for Children’s Rights, 2006

  This report summarises country profiles on children’s rights in Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam. The report aims to highlight the existing challenges and gaps in the progress and at implementing the Convention of the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols.
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  Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006

  This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women.
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  Home truths: children's rights in institutional care in Sri Lanka

  Save the Children, Sri Lanka, 2005

  The most appropriate place for the growth and development of a child is within the context of his or her family and community.
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  UNICEF tsunami relief study: the views of affected children on their lives and the tsunami relief effort

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This study was conducted to find out what children are thinking, one year on from the tsunami in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.
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  School-to-work transition of youth in Sri Lanka

  University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2004

  This study looks into the factors affecting the challenges encountered by youth in their search for employment in Sri Lanka.
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  Ending legalised violence against children: report for South Asia Regional Consultation

  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005

  This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment of children in South Asia.The report shows that children in eight countries in the South Asia region are not fully protected under assault laws, despite the clear international human rights standard that children should be protected equally with adults.
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  Forgotten casualties of war: girls in armed conflict

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report addresses the protection issues for children associated with armed groups and, more specifically, to the largely unrecognised protection requirements of girls.
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  Living in fear: child soldiers and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report focuses on the continued LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) recruitment of children in Sri Lanka during the cease-fire period, including re-recruitment of children released from the LTTE’s eastern faction in 2004.

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