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Sri Lanka: Violence against women and ICT

Friday, October 5th, 2007 @ 17:52 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Sri Lanka
Topics:: Gender, Technology

Voice of South on the example of a program in Sri Lanka in the context of using ICT to empower women against violence.

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Mukesh kamboj

I am a law ( Master in Law) student at Stockholm and trying to do a thesis based on social and IT topic which is exactly based on Violence against women and ICT law.
Could you please give me some guidance at this project at your place.
I shall be highly obeliged.
Due regards

Mukesh Kamboj
konsult@lawyer.com

# 2007-10-7 at 20:30 pm

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