Informes

This report indicates the UN and NGO partner response to continuing humanitarian needs and early recovery concerns, in support to the Sri Lankan government’s efforts to rebuild the former conflict-affected regions. Activities show progress towards the…

I. SITUATION OVERVIEW & HIGHLIGHTS  By end August 2011, the total population returned to the Northern Province stood at 381,525 people (111,915 families) – this figure includes 213,041 people (66,682 families) displaced after April 2008 and…

(27.09.2011 Colombo, Sri Lanka) “I wish to draw your urgent attention to a matter which causes me great alarm…the continuing suffering of the thousands of peoples living in the North and East, today, mainly due to…

The Government of Japan provided grant assistance amounting to Japanese Yen 1,206 million (approximately Rs. 1,600 million) for the Construction of the Manmunai Bridge across the Batticaloa lagoon, aimed at expediting the ongoing development initiatives in…

Over 500 ex- combatants from north who were rehabilitated are to visit the south on a familiarization tour. These five hundred ex combatants have gone back home to start a new…

Inquiry into armed conflict fundamentally flawed The Sri Lankan government’s inquiry into the country’s civil war is fundamentally flawed and provides no accountability for atrocities, according to a new Amnesty International report. When will they get justice? exposes…

Period covered by this operations update: 13 April 2011 to 12 July 2011 Appeal target (current): CHF 6.17 million Appeal coverage: 56 per cent based on current revised appeal budget. <click here for the donors’ response list or…

August 26, 2011 Hon’ble Madam Speaker, At the outset, allow me to mention that I fully share the concerns and sentiments raised by the Hon’ble Members of the House during the discussion regarding Sri Lanka Tamils. India-Sri Lanka…

VAVUNIYA , 16 August 2011 (IRIN) - As thousands of students begin uninterrupted schooling after a lapse of years, education officials in Sri Lanka's former northern conflict zone are facing a shortage of teachers. John Edward Solemn,…

VAVUNIYA, 1 August 2011 (IRIN) - More than two years after Sri Lanka's decades-long conflict officially ended, the whereabouts of 630 children are unknown, according to a government database. Most went missing during the final phase of…