Informes

KEY DEVELOPMENTS The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has closed the Manik Farm internally displaced person (IDP) camp, previously one of the world’s largest IDP camps, accommodating up to 300,000 people who fled their homes in the…

Hon. Basil Rohana Rajapaksa, Senior Adviser to the President and Minister of Economic Development declared open the modernized Dalthara Primary school in Piliyandala educational zone on 1st October 2012. This is the first school which developed…

COLOMBO, 1 October 2012 (IRIN) - Finding paid work - especially for youths - is still difficult in Sri Lanka's former conflict zone in the north even after three years of peace and massive infrastructure projects,…

MULLAITIVU, 28 September 2012 (IRIN) - The last group of over 300 people from Menik Farm, once the world’s largest camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), have been moved out, but not to their former villages. “The…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, September 27 (UNHCR) – Menik Farm, once the world's largest camp for internally displaced people (IDP), closed this week, bringing Sri Lanka's population displacement crisis closer to final resolution three years after the…

The Government of Japan has provided US$45,551 (approximately Rs.5.9 million) grant aid for a rural infrastructure development project in Monaragala district under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). “The Project for Constructing a Multipurpose…

IOM yesterday helped the last 251 families in the Menik Farm camp displacement camp near Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka to voluntarily return to their homes in Mullaitivu district. The move, funded by the Government of Japan…

COLOMBO, 21 September 2012 (IRIN) - Menik Farm in northern Sri Lanka, once one of the world's largest camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), is to close by the end of September, say government officials. "By 30…

This Revised Emergency Appeal now seeks CHF 23.3 million in cash, kind, or services to support the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) to assist at least 20,000 families (100,000 people) for 67 months. The work…

I. SITUATION OVERVIEW & HIGHLIGHTS Returns and displacement By the end of August 2012, 447,269 people (133,518 families) had returned to the Northern Province. This figure includes 234,024 people (74,192 families) displaced after April 2008 and 213,245 persons…