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| ILO helps Sri Lanka war victims pick up the pieces |
| 2013-01-05 |
Fishermen who lost their boats during Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war are back at sea. Farmers are learning to get better yields and war widows are running businesses. A look at how an ILO project is helping victims of the bitter conflict.
Feature | 02 January 2013
IRANAIMATHA NAGAR, Sri Lanka (ILO News) – As the morning sun glints off the pristine waters of Poonakary Lagoon, fishermen haul in their latest catch of crab in a serene scene that contrasts with the grim years of Sri Lanka’s bitter civil war.
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| More needs to be done for IDPs return - UN |
| 2013-01-05 |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said more needs to be done by the Sri Lankan government of the country of origin, to create conditions for people to feel comfortable about considering the possibility of returning from India.
In an interview with the Hindu newspaper, Mr. Guterres, who was the former Prime Minister of Portugal said, “It has to do with the living conditions, work, education, health, property and security; these are all key questions that need to be addressed for
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| Jaffna University to resume on Jan. 16 |
| 2013-01-05 |
Academic activities of the Jaffna University will begin on January 16 after a two-month disruption following the arrest and detention of four students by the military, university sources said.
The four students who are detained at a rehabilitation camp in Welikanda had reportedly requested their colleagues to attend lectures stating that the authorities had promised them they would be released soon.
They had conveyed this message to the Deans and Lecturers who had spoken to the students
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| Canada and Sri Lanka to discuss curbing human smuggling |
| 2013-01-05 |
Canada and Sri Lanka are to have discussions over the weekend on tackling human smuggling, the Canadian High Commission in Colombo said on Friday.
A High Commission spokeswoman said that Jason Kenney, Canada's minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism will be in Sri Lanka to discuss Canada's role in cracking down on human smuggling operations as well as recent changes in the Canadian asylum system.
In August of 500 Sri Lankan asylum seeker
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| Sri Lanka seeks budget support loan from IMF: Treasury Secretary |
| 2013-01-05 |
Sri Lanka is planning to discuss a loan of up to a billion US dollars if the International Monetary Fund is willing to provide budget support, Treasury Secretary P B Jayasundera said.
"We are asking IMF to extend budget support," Jayasundera told reporters in Colombo.
"That money cannot go the central bank."
The IMF usually gives a loan to a central bank to boost external monetary reserves with fiscal funding being left to its Bretton Woods twin, the World Bank.
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| National malaise of backdoor deals pervades and corrupts the Prisons ‘ |
| 2013-01-05 |
Prisoners call it “bunker gahanawa” in Sinhala. It means smuggling contraband—mostly phones, phone chargers and drugs—in the anus.
Officials say this remains one of the most common methods of smuggling goods into jail. But there are many others. A three-wheeler driver in Wanathamulla described to the Sunday Times last week, how a friend came to his home late one night, clutching a parcel.
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| Increasing Internal Security Concerns In TN |
| 2013-01-05 |
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Lying close to the sea, not off the Sri Lankan coast – which continues to be a cause for concern though the ethnic war itself has ended in that country – the novel methods adopted by the Koodamkulam-Idinthakarai fishers should have alerted the security agencies, both of the Centre and the State. Out-numbering the security personnel on the seas and possibly out-witting them too, owing to their in-born skills and inherent knowledge of the local seas, the protesting fishers have exposed the chinks in the armour of the security agencies
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| Rizana likely to be pardoned |
| 2013-01-04 |
The Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Jammaz, said that according to information received by him, Rizana Nafeek presently housed in death row in Saudi Arabia would be pardoned and could return to the island, in consideration of a request made to the Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Azeez by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and also having regard to legal considerations.
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