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17-03-2008  Photo Collection  
Making sure that armed-conflict victims have access to water and sanitary facilities
Photographs illustrating some of the projects carried out by the ICRC to ensure that victims of armed conflict or other violence have sufficient access to clean drinking water and sanitary facilities.

© ICRC / D Sansoni / 02.2007 / lk-e-00270

Sri Lanka, Batticaloa. A water point in the Alankulam camp for displaced persons.

At the beginning of 2007 fighting in the eastern provinces of Sri Lanka forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and take refuge in Batticaloa district. In the camps for the displaced, the ICRC supplied drinking water and set up sanitary facilities.



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