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About 570 children are among an estimated 10,000 former militants sent to rehabilitation centres after the 25-year war for a separate Tamil state ended in May. Tamils are an ethnic minority in Sri Lanka, an island country of 21 million people off the coast of India. — AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena

In this October 1, 2009 photo, a group of former Sri Lankan child soldiers attend a music lesson in a classroom at a government rehabilitation centre in the village of Ambepussa, about 60 kilometres northeast Colombo.

Guaranteeing children’s rights

An estimated one billion children still lack services essential to their development.
Haiti’s malnourished
A hard life in the camps

Over two million people displaced from the Northwest are living in camps.
Displaced

Images of women and children taken at a repatriation centre in NWFP.

Guaranteeing children’s rights

An estimated one billion children still lack services essential to their development.
Haiti’s malnourished
A hard life in the camps

Over two million people displaced from the Northwest are living in camps.
Displaced

Images of women and children taken at a repatriation centre in NWFP.