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Leaders of National Women Federation, lead by Lavena Hasanthi, the women
coordinator of NAFSO met the leaders of SNEHA in Naga[attinam on 24th
October.
Jesurethinam Christy, the coordinator of Coastal Action Network lead the
discussion and shared their valuable experiences of the struggle
against the Nuclear Power Plant i Koodankulam which is one of the most
hazardous projects in the coastal communities. This is one of the
possible threats among others to the small scale fisher communities in
Tamil Nadu and also in Northern SL too. 
Jesurethinam shared in her presentation, "SNEHA supposed to be an
organization fight for the rights of coastal communities and ensure
their sustainable livelihoods. Nuclear power plants are not meant for
the development of the poor and marginalized rather those are about to
run with the cost of poor and marginalized communities wiping out them
from their ancestral lands and coasts.
We expect the communities will take this battle forward as they are the
victims of the such development."
Adding to what Jesurethinam shared, Laxamann Thamarajina, a woman leader
representing Poonthalir women federation in Jaffna in the SL team
shared,
"We are also losing our original lands hence lose our customary rights
and the GOSL is not pay genuine attention to release the captured and
occupied lands by military and other development purposes. Our attempt
as National Women Federation under the banner of NAFSO to fight to get
back our land snd coastal areas. We fought 25 years and will continue
further till we get the land.
