13/11/2009 - Daily News
Bambalapitiya Children's Court to be relocated
(by Dulshani Gunawardena)
Steps will be taken to relocate the Bambalapitiya Children's Court and the Training School for Youth Offenders within 45 days on a directive issued on November 10 by Justice and Law Reforms Minister Milinda Moragoda…
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14/11/2009 - The Island
Children in conflict with the law accounts for 25 per cent of cases in Courts
(by Dilanthi Jayamanne)
Minister of Justice... Moragoda said that... the situation could be rectified with the new amendments to the Children and Young Persons' Ordinance, No. 48 of 1939... he said that the practical problems in implementing the newly amended ordinance needed to be urgently addressed. The need for more probation and childcare officers... vehicles to transport children…
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15/11/2009 - Sunday Island
The spirit of the Ceylon National Congress to stir again?
(by Malinda Seneviratne)
...the formation of a Sri Lanka National Congress (SLNC)... looks to the original articulation for inspiration in terms of its key defining characteristics: commitment to political culture that references ethics, emphasizes values, champions intellect and celebrates the spirit of democracy... is Milinda Moragoda’s latest initiative... focuses on... moving the political culture away from its current fascination with greed, revenge, aversion to transparency and accountability and its singular privileging of politician over citizen…
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15/11/2009 - Daily Mirror
Committee report on Juvenile justice law reforms presented
...to Minister of Justice... Moragoda by Supreme Court Justice... Thilakawardene... the committee has recommended to re-examine certain provisions of laws relating to the Child/Children and Young Persons Ordinance… and to establish children’s Magistrate Court in the country… the government is planning to set up a separate juvenile court… to effectively handle children who… need care and protection of the State…
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17/11/2009 - Daily News
Twenty-seven percent cases before HC relate to child abuse:
Laws to curb increasing child abuse cases
(by Dulshani Gunawardena)
...proposal for a major amendment of the Children and Young Persons Ordinance No 48 of 1939 was presented… to Justice… Minister… Moragoda and Child Care... Development Minister… Jayasena…current amendment… designed... under… guidance of…Justice... Ministry and the Child Development and Womens’ Affairs Ministry and funded by UNICEF…
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19/11/2009 - Daily Mirror
Govt. to provide list of northern youth in custody
(by Kelum Bandara)
Justice Minister... Moragoda has assured the TNA parliamentarians who visited the IDP camps that a list of Tamil youth from the North under detention or in remand... would be made available soon through the Vavuniya District Secretariat…
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19/11/2009 - Asian Tribune
Milinda forms new party; Pledges support to Rajapaksa
(by Poorna Rodrigo)
Justice… Minister… Milinda Moragoda… formed his own party, the Sri Lanka National Congress… to reach… “nation’s full potential.”… the new party would steer the country based on ethical values whilst rejecting violence and supporting a market oriented economy… Despite… end of war, Moragoda says its “resultant hardships and political uncertainties”…
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20/11/2009 - The Island
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'Here are the scissors, please cut the red tape ‘Minister of Justice… Moragoda…saying to Chief Justice… Silva who was the chief guest at the ceremony held …to declare open the new building of the Attanagalla District and Magistrate Courts…
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20/11/2009 - The Island
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Justice… Moragoda and former UNP Kegalle District MP… Sirisena with President…Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees on Thursday (Nov 19)… handed over policy statement of the newly formed Sri Lanka National Congress…
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22/11/2009 - The Sunday Leader
Bringing Back The Child
(Text and pictures by Michael Hardy and Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham)
...it’s hard to imagine that the children who sleep here were fighting for the LTTE less than a year ago. These children - boys and girls aged 13-18 - were forcibly conscripted by the Tamil Tigers…273… are now living at Hindu College in Ratmalana,… the… center and school for former child soldiers… “We have children who are sleeping on a bed for the first time”… Reintegrating former child soldiers is no easy task… ex-LTTE cadres have been… singled-out in their schools,… by the parents of other children. Girls… have been ashamed to go out in public because of their short hair - a requirement for all LTTE women…
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