Informes

1 November 2004, JAFFNA - Sri Lanka cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan, a humanitarian partner with the United Nations World Food Programme, said today that meals provided to school children in the country's former war zones are one of the…

Program Description USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) program in Sri Lanka assists in generating greater support for a negotiated peace settlement to end the long-standing conflict. To accomplish this aim, USAID/OTI's three objectives are to: Demonstrate tangible benefits of…

Sewalanka Foundation continues to rebuild lives affected by the May 2003 monsoon rains in Southern Sri Lankan; that left over 100 people dead and approximately 175,000 people destitute. At the time of the floods, Sewalanka Foundation with the support of…

Why are Upcountry Tamils forgotten? About 30,000 Upcountry Tamils, who fled to India from Sri Lanka to escape the civil war between majority Buddhist Sinhalese and minority Hindu Tamils, reside throughout some 100 refugee camps in India's Tamil Nadu state…

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, 9 September 2004 - A report released today by UNICEF says that the stalled peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a major impediment to assisting…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (7 September 2004) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is planning to lend US$570 million to Sri Lanka over the next two years, according to a Country Strategy and Program (CSP) Update for 2005-2006 endorsed by ADB's Board…

In the last 19 years, civil war in Sri Lanka has resulted in the death of over 64,000 children, women and men. The fighting between the warring parties - the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (9 July 2004) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide emergency assistance amounting to US$12.5 million to help rehabilitate transport infrastructure damaged during severe flooding in southern Sri Lanka in May 2003. The assistance will restore roads…

UNICEF says children are being indiscriminately recruited by the LTTE, which is violating commitments it made one year ago to end all child recruitment COLOMBO, 26 June 2004 - After promising signs in April that the LTTE was taking seriously…

COLOMBO, June 15, 2004: The Government of Sri Lanka will work to improve the efficiency and quality of its healthcare system with support from a US$60 million grant, approved today by the World Bank. Improving access, particularly to the…