Program to issue identity documents to IDPs

The Constitutional Affairs and National Integration Ministry in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has implemented a program to issue legal documents including National Identity Cards (NIC) to the IDPs in the welfare villages of Vavuniya.

Under the UNDP Equal Access to Justice (A2J) project implemented, birth, marriage and death certificates and other legal documents will be issued to IDPs who have lost these vital documents amidst the conflict, left them behind while fleeing to the safety of the Security Forces or never possessed such documents, Constitutional Affairs and National Integration Ministry Secretary Ms. M.S.Wickremesinghe told a media briefing held at Galle Face Hotel, Colombo yesterday. The first mobile documentation program to issue legal documents to IDPs in Vavuniya was held at the Kadirgamar Nagar Welfare Village on July 1, 2 and 3, she said. Read more ...