Is Sri Lanka’s legal system failing to protect children from corporal punishment?
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Principal Assaults 12-Year-Old Student, Causing Severe Injury
In a shocking incident, Malaka Weeravarnakula, the principal of Hambantota Debokkawa Maha Vidyalaya, assaulted a 12-year-old student, resulting in a severe spinal cord injury. The incident occurred after the student, who was the class monitor, failed to clean the trash in the classroom. According to witnesses, Principal Weeravarnakula grabbed the student by the ear, dragged
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1929 for children affected by the plague
The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has requested that any information on children who are vulnerable to the country’s rapidly spreading epidemic be reported immediately. The Chairman of the Authority requests that the 1929 telephone service be informed. With the spread of the epidemic across the country, parents and adults at home are rapidly becoming
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