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Child Protection Authority discusses its work with UNICEF Child Protection Section

CPA raised the issue of UNICEF acknowledging in its public statements the status of UNICEF database of underage youths in LTTE which has been reduced substantially. CPA requested UNICEF for an informative statistics to be made public about the status of their database of underage youths in LTTE. UNICEF responded that a monthly statistics publicly released by them has most the information sought by the CPA. It is unfortunate that the media reports do not reflect this accuracy.

CPA also raised the complex conditions in the east and the difficulties faced by CPA in even verifying the UNICEF complaints. The fear of parents that youths released from the LTTE may be immediately abducted and recruited by the Karuna group was also discussed.

A new reporting format of individual cases that reflects the release status of each case was requested by CPA and was agreed by UNICEF.

Andy Brooks (Head of UNICEF-Sri Lanka Child Protection), William Collie (Child Protection Officer), Paul Joachim (Head of UNICEF Kilinochchi), and Bakary Sogoba (Child Protection Officer, Kilinochchi) attended the meeting from UNICEF side.

S Puleedevan (Secretary General LTTE Peace Secretariat), Dr N Malathy (Director of Child Protection Authority), Mr Thiagaraja (Coordinator of UN & International Agencies Liaison with LTTE) and Ms N Selvy (LTTE human rights and humanitarian spokesperson attended the meeting from the LTTE and CPA side.

24 April 2007

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