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    The Human Rights Office in Kandy celebrated International Women's Day on March 6th, 2012. The event was organized by women's groups representing families of the disappeared, prisoners, torture survivors, and widows from the local parish. A keynote speech was given by Mrs. Nilani Manthrinayake, an attorney, about the challenges facing women in northern Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war, including barriers faced by widows. She noted that despite women holding high positions like Chief Justice and Attorney General, women continue to face harassment and rape. Cultural performances were presented by widows, women's groups, and mothers of survivors to promote reconciliation between communities that suffered during the civil war and earlier JVP ins

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    The Human Rights Office in Kandy celebrated International Women's Day on March 6th, 2012. The event was organized by women's groups representing families of the disappeared, prisoners, torture survivors, and widows from the local parish. A keynote speech was given by Mrs. Nilani Manthrinayake, an attorney, about the challenges facing women in northern Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war, including barriers faced by widows. She noted that despite women holding high positions like Chief Justice and Attorney General, women continue to face harassment and rape. Cultural performances were presented by widows, women's groups, and mothers of survivors to promote reconciliation between communities that suffered during the civil war and earlier JVP ins

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    The International women's day was celebrated by the Human


    Rights Office Kandy on the 06th of March 2012 at Ampitiya
    St. Mary's church Parish hall with the theme "Post war
    challenges to Women". The programme was organized by the
    women's group of
    the families of the
    disappeared, the
    families of the prisoners and the families of the Torture and
    Rape survivors and the women's group and widows of the
    Ampitiya Parish.

    The chief guest of the women's day celebration, Mrs. Nilani


    Manthrinayake (attorney-at-law) was received by the women representatives around 10.00 a.m. along with
    the guest of honor Rev. Fr. Bonifus Mendis of the National Seminary and
    the members of the support group.

    The days programme and the significance of the day was explained by Fr.
    Nandana Manatunga, the director of the Human Rights office. He said
    that the women are being used by the srilankan society as mere objects and they
    are fast loosing their inherent dignity and that we need to restore the dignity of
    women. He further said that the women of our country that solely bring foreign
    revenue through, tea plantations, Garment industry and by foreign employment.
    However they are gradually sidelined from the decision making process. The
    ever increasing cases of rape and murder make us to believe that our society is mentally ill.
    Mrs. Nilani Manthrinayake in her address explained the plight of the
    women in the north after 03 years since the official ending of the war. She
    said that our culture make things difficult for the widows to survive as there
    are so many barriers that have limited the widows and their activities. She
    reminded that apart from the chief justice, Attorney general, even the
    commissioner of labor is a woman but still the women are being harassed and
    raped almost everyday.

    The widows, the women's group representatives and mothers of the


    survivors presented several cultural items while the women's group of
    the parish staged a drama to show the importance of reconciliation
    between the 02 communities, especially women, who suffered both
    during JVP insurrection and during the civil war.

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