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	Sri Lanka - Country Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The establishment of the Subcommittee on Gender Issues (SGI) was agreed upon by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the third session of negotiations in Oslo 2-5 December 2002.
		It was decided to focus their efforts on: the equal representation of women in politics, educational structures and gender bias, violence against women and allegations of sexual harassment, sustaining the peace process, resettlement, personal security and safety, infrastructure and service, livelihood and employment, political representation and decision-making and reconciliation.
		Sri Lankan Muslims, constituting approximately 8% of the population and concentrated in the eastern part of the state, have also suffered expulsions and attacks by Tamil militants.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /sri_lanka/sri_lanka.htm (4758 words)

	USAID CP FY2000: Sri Lanka
		With the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) focusing on ending the ongoing ethnic conflict, and with clear potential for achieving sustainable economic growth, USAID is helping the country move through an important political and economic transition.
		The Sri Lanka economy remained resilient in 1998 despite adverse external conditions in the region and increases in defense expenditures.
		Efforts to reach a negotiated political settlement were stalled by the lack of cooperation between the major political parties and lack of interest on the part of the insurgents.
	www.usaid.gov /pubs/cp2000/ane/srilanka.html (1588 words)

	Prabodhini - Equality for Women in Peace and Public Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the absence of equal opportunities for women in the political sphere, affirmative action by the State, in the form of quotas/ reserved seats for women which are adopted by a number of countries in the South Asian region should be given due consideration.
		In Sri Lanka, taking into consideration the fact that women are inadequately represented so that they are unable to play a meaningful role in the decision making process, affirmative action seems to be called for at least initially, to ensure women’s entry into all levels of the political system.
		Although the issue of women’s representation has been on the agenda of some political parties it has not yet found implementation; but it is also understood that a 33 1/3 % quota for women at local level has received cabinet approval and a committee is looking into the logistics of implementation.
	www.peace-srilanka.org /prabodhini/Political.htm (1123 words)

	Political power over ethnic identity
		The political competition for power between the two political parties should be channelled so it does not undermine efforts to end the war.
		Addressing the armed conflict is complicated by the political power conflict among the main contenders for political power in Sri Lanka - the ruling UNP led by Prime Minister Wickremasinghe, the Opposition P.A. led by President Kumaratunga and the Tamil Tigers led by their leader V. Prabakaran.
		The political rationale presented by the UNP for amending the Constitution to limit the President's powers is to prevent her from jeopardising the peace process by dissolving Parliament.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1913/19130580.htm (3055 words)

	Sri Lanka
		Sri Lanka is a low-income country with a market economy based mainly on the export of textiles, tea, rubber, coconuts, and gems.
		Although there are no legal impediments to the participation of women in politics or government, the social mores in some communities limit women's activities outside the home, and the percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population.
		The law prohibits trafficking in persons; however, Sri Lanka is a country of origin and destination for trafficked persons, primarily women and children for the purposes of forced labor, and for sexual exploitation.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/sa/8241.htm (17949 words)

	Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Coup Thrusts JVP To Political Prominence
		Her own party was deeply divided with significant sections hostile to any alliance with the JVP and urging a deal with Wickremesinghe.
		The prominence of the JVP in the present situation is the sharpest expression of the putrification of bourgeois politics in Sri Lanka and the depth of the current crisis.
		Such is the depth of the splits in the political establishment and the tensions generated by the deepening social polarisation that the mechanisms of bourgeois democracy have all but exhausted themselves.
	www.countercurrents.org /sl-ratnayake130204.htm (1761 words)

	Pitfalls in Peacemaking: Guatemala and Sri Lanka
		Pressure for negotiations between the parties in Sri Lanka will not let up as long as the government cannot finance the war internally, the war puts such a drag on growth, there continues to be a significant flow of refugees to the outside world, and neither side is believed capable of winning militarily.
		Sri Lanka's economy is not growing this year and the International Monetary Fund moans about the fiscal deficit, but the economy is far from the crisis conditions necessary to force significant change.
		The US State Department's Thomas Pickering visited Sri Lanka to announce that the LTTE would have an independent state "on the planet of the dead." However, the international community woke up to the fact that this war is not going to be won by the army.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0203/020316.htm (1810 words)

	Landeskunde Sri Lanka: 4. Government and Politics
		Sri Lanka was, however, heir to cultural and historical traditions at variance with its constitutionally defined parliamentary political institutions.
		Although the JVP was recognized as a legal political party in 1977 and Wijeweera ran as a presidential candidate in the October 1982 election, it was banned by the government after the summer 1983 anti-Tamil riots in Colombo and went underground.
		Karuna was born in Kiran, a village in the Batticaloa district in eastern Sri Lanka.
	www.payer.de /mahavamsa/chronik0044.htm (17023 words)

	Sri Lanka: Political Killings During the Ceasefire (Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, August 7, 2003)
		During the sixth session of peace talks at Hakone, Japan from March 18-21, 2003, the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE agreed to strengthen the mandate and capacity of the SLMM to undertake preventive measures to avoid serious incidents at sea and on land.
		Political parties at risk and human rights defenders began to publish lists of the attacks, hoping that the evidence would compel the international community, particularly the SLMM, to speak out.
		Ceasefire Agreement, article 3.7 (“The [government of Sri Lanka] and the LTTE appointees may be selected from among retired judges, public servants, religious leaders or similar leading citizens.”).
	hrw.org /backgrounder/asia/srilanka080603.htm (3452 words)

	Sri Lanka Newspapers - Sri Lanka News Updates around the clock
		Sri Lanka`s military said it captured a strategic rebel-held town in the island`s restive east on Friday as more than 10,000 refugees fled the area and Tamil Tiger rebels withdrew after weeks under siege.
		Sri Lanka Army sources in Colombo claimed Friday afternoon that their troops have entered the Vaharai hospital without facing any resistance from the Tigers.
		Sri Lanka army stationed at Mankerny and Kajuwatta camps have been continuously pounding the besieged Vaharai area with artillery shells from Thursday morning.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/index.jsp (2935 words)

	Sri Lanka political parties agree to devolution to solve ethnic issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sri Lanka'a all political party forum has agreed that devolution of power is the answer to solving the country's long drawn-out ethnic strife and the separatist war waged by Tamil Tiger rebels, a senior government minister said Tuesday.
		Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse in January appointed the All Party Conference to build a consensus in the south on the ethnic conflict before providing a solution to the Tamil minority aimed at resolving the long drawn-out separatist armed conflict.
		Sri Lankan security forces have captured the main rebel stronghold in the island's embattled eastern province after weeks of heavy fighting, the defence ministry said.
	www.lankaeverything.com /vinews/srilanka/20061121225516.php (780 words)

	Sri Lanka - Timeline
		As riots break out in southern Sri Lanka -- sparked by leftwing rebels opposed to the pact -- Jayewardene invites Indian troops to implement the pact while Sri Lankan troops in the north and east are shifted to the south to battle the new threat.
		From Sri Lanka’s northern jungles, dressed in combat uniforms and carrying arms, the rebels are flown by government helicopter to Colombo for talks.
		Sri Lanka declares itself a republic under a new constitution, which gives prominence to Sinhala and Buddhism, the language and the religion of the country's majority community.
	www.ipsnews.net /srilanka/timeline.shtml (2398 words)

	Sexual Violence Against Tamil Women
		Even though the political parties concerned are by no means the premier representative organizations of the people they claim to serve, the call for a protest was however enthusiastically received due to the serious timeliness of the issue at hand.
		The 11 party call for a protest was sparked off by this, but extended in general, to the entire phenomenon of Tamil women being the targets of sexual violence over the past years.
		The list of sexual offences allegedly perpetrated against Tamil women[i] by members of the Armed Forces and Police is compiled from news reports in the Tamil language newspapers and from additional particulars supplied by Human Rights Organizations engaged in gender issues.The list is neither representative nor exhaustive.
	www.sangam.org /ANALYSIS_ARCHIVES/Jeyaraj_7_8_01.htm (3454 words)

	LankaPage: Sri Lanka News, FINANCE, Market Update, CRICKET, SPORTS, Tourism, Travel
		Jan 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka said it is working to share power with ethnic Tamils but claimed that it would continue the military campaign until the Tigers stop violence.
		Admiral Sandagiri, former Chief of Defence Staff and a former Commander of Sri Lanka Navy, was appointed to the position by the cabinet of ministers, last year.
		Investors unaffected by the strife in Eastern Sri Lanka remained hopeful that a possible Cabinet reshuffle followed by the cross over of several key opposition members would pave the way for a solution to the ethnic conflict.
	www.lankapage.com (2474 words)

	The Election Crisis in Sri Lanka
		A political crisis involving Sri Lanka's president and prime minister is threatening democracy and the rule of law in that South Asian country.
		In confidential interviews, prominent public officials in Sri Lanka voiced concern that the president intends to subvert the constitution and the rule of law--a recipe for rule by fiat and despotism.
		It is imperative for the peace process and the rule of law that all Sri Lankans are permitted to vote and that the election is conducted in a manner that legitimizes the results.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/em916.cfm (1065 words)

	Sri Lanka
		The Sri Lankan government’s chief peace negotiator, Professor G L Peiris, may have had contradictory policies while handling key cabinet portfolios under governments run by the country's two rival political parties, but his quest for peace has been unwavering.
		Political analysts believe that one of the reasons for the failure of the talks was that the government team lacked political thinkers and was too heavily stacked with hard-nosed legal experts, who were not prepared to budge from preset positions when it mattered.
		He was professor of law, dean of the faculty of law and later vice chancellor of the University of Colombo before entering parliament through the People's Alliance list of nominated MPs in 1994, as a part of a programme to infuse academics and the intelligentsia into the Cabinet of ministers.
	www.ipsnews.net /srilanka/profile_peiris.shtml (725 words)

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		List of political and non-profit organisations on the Internet, maintained by UC-Berkeley's Centre for Community Economic Research
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		The Atlantica Party represents Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm (1218 words)

	Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
		Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
		Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
		Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
	www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html (2433 words)

	Governments on the WWW: Sri Lanka
		Sri Lanka High Commission in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
		Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Los Angeles, United States of America
		Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington, United States of America
	www.gksoft.com /govt/en/lk.html (174 words)

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