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After deadly attack, Annan calls on all sides in Sri Lanka to resume peace talks

26 June 2006
Condemning today’s suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka that killed one of the army’s top officers and three other people near the capital, Colombo, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on all sides to return to the negotiating table, saying that “no cause can justify such acts of violence.”
Children in Sri Lanka

UN helps Sri Lanka fight child sex tourism

20 June 2006
Proclaiming a message of “zero tolerance” for child sex tourism in Sri Lanka, the United Nations is supporting a two-year action plan launched by the country’s tourist board to stop such exploitation, targeting visitors, children and adolescents, hoteliers, journalists, families and community leaders.
Louise Arbour

Sri Lanka: top UN rights chief calls on Government to investigate deadly bus attack

16 June 2006
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has called on the Sri Lankan Government to investigate yesterday’s attack on a bus, which reportedly killed 62 civilians and injured more than 40 others, including school-aged children, in a country wracked by a conflict with Tamil separatists.