The school uniforms sold cheaply in major UK supermarkets are being produced by women workers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and those women earn a very little amount - sometimes only five pence per hour working over 70 hours per week, Action aid revealed in a report published this week.
Sri Lanka
World pleads for teenage nanny's life
When Rizana Nafeek, a teenager from Mutur, Sri Lanka, wakes up in the morning inside her tiny cell at Dawadami Prison in Saudi Arabia, she does not know if it would be her last.
Saudi Arabia hangs and then publicly crucifies four expats
Saudi Arabia hanged and then crucified four Sri Lankan expats convicted of robbery and put their mutilated bodies in public display, according to the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry.
Tsunami two years on: War and floods blight survivors
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There is little respite for the Indian Ocean tsunami survivors in the two worst affected regions as a resurging ethnic war is displacing 34,000 civilians in the disaster stricken east of Sri Lanka [UNHCR] and floods have forced 170,000 people out of their homes in Aceh, Indonesia[ReliefWeb], which bore the brunt of devastation from the 24 December 2004 event.
Peace activists attacked in Sri Lanka
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An angry mob allegedly including a ruling party politician attacked four Sri Lankan peace activists who were about to conduct a training workshop on peace and a political solution to the ethnic conflict[< a href="http://www.peace-srilanka.org/npc_mediastatment.html">NPC].
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