Concern in Sri Lanka over rising number of child rapes August 11, 2012
A 13-year-old girl in Sri Lanka has identified four men including a local government politician who she says were involved in gang-raping her in the south of the country last month. It is one of a series of alleged rapes, especially of children. Such cases have recently been reported in alarming numbers – police say …
Sri Lanka says it is facing economic war August 8, 2012
Colombo, Aug. 8 (Xinhua-ANI): Sri Lanka said Wednesday that it was facing an economic war three years after the military defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels. External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris said that the economic war has been launched by some groups overseas, mostly made up of the Tamil diaspora. Addressing the opening of a defence …
U.K. voices concern over sexual exploitation of children in Sri Lanka May 2, 2012
The U.K. Foreign Office, in its latest human rights report, prepared from the accounts of Human Rights activists, said that despite significant steps by the Sri Lankan government to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, sexual exploitation of children remained a problem. “According to local media, in 2011 police recorded the …
