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• 08 Dec 07
  

  Ted Perlmutter

  citizenjournalism humanitarian humanrights srilanka ws007

  • In response to many requests from INGOs, humanitarian aid organisations  including sections of the UN, CSOs, local and international journalists as well  as members from the diaspora to have a better idea of conditions on the ground  in Sri Lanka, the Voices of  Reconciliation project decided to launch this website to strengthen, inter  alia, the voices of those in favour of peace in Sri Lanka through negotiations  and federalism.
  • means through which civil society and concerned citizens can bear witness to  human rights abuses, write their own brief daily accounts of life in conflict  zones, call attention to humanitarian emergencies, give information on security  / ground conditions etc and also a place provincial journalists can pen down  their thoughts, in Sinhala and Tamil, with a guaranteed global audience.

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