Widows’ struggles in post-war Sri Lanka: This report documents the post-war struggle of women, mainly widows, from the fishing communities of Mannar, Sri Lanka, attempting to reconstruct their lives

Quist, Cornelie (2015) Widows’ struggles in post-war Sri Lanka: This report documents the post-war struggle of women, mainly widows, from the fishing communities of Mannar, Sri Lanka, attempting to reconstruct their lives. Yemaya (50). pp. 5-7. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

In 2012, Yemaya had carried a report based on my meetings with women of fishing communities of Batticaloa, a district on the east coast of Sri Lanka which had been badly affected by both the ethnic based civil war in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 (see Yemaya Issue 41). This year, at the end of August, I had the opportunity to return to Sri Lanka where I met widows who are organizing themselves in groups to survive and meaningfully reconstruct their lives.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM422
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Sri Lanka, Fishworkers Struggle, Conflicts, Fishing Communities, Reconstruction, Women, Livelihoods, Income, Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 10:15
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 09:34
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/853

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