Informes

The economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka continues with soaring inflation and sporadic countrywide public protests. Acute shortage of essential items, including food, medicines and fuel- many of which are being rationed - has turned Sri…

Australia will provide $2.5 million to boost food security in Sri Lanka through the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The COVID-19 pandemic has affected food security globally, impacting food supply chains…

PRESS BRIEFING NOTES DELIVERED BY Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell LOCATION Geneva We are closely following developments in Sri Lanka where in the past few days the authorities announced a state of emergency and other…

On 1 April 2022, Sri Lanka declared a 36-hour emergency period and countrywide curfew amid growing public protests against acute shortages of food, non-food items, medicines, fuel and gas for weeks along with record inflation and…

Responding to the recent arrests and use of unlawful force by Sri Lankan authorities against protestors gathered outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence to agitate against the economic crisis in the country, Amnesty International’s South Asia Regional…

A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster On 20 May 2021, cargo ship X-PRESS PEARL, with 1,486 containers on board carrying 25 tons of nitric acid, caustic soda, solid sodium methoxide solution, cosmetics, methanol and vinyl acetate, including…

Key Highlights ▪ Overall inflation in February increased to 17.5%, up from 16.8% in January. ▪ Food inflation increased to 24.7% in February, up from 24.3% in January; non-food inflation increased to 11% from 10.2% in January. The…

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The Government of Japan has provided a total sum of US$ 604,412 (approx. Rs. 120 million) to Skavita Humanitarian Assistance and Relief Project (SHARP) for humanitarian demining activities in Northern Sri Lanka. The grant contract was…

With Sri Lanka’s economic crisis resulting in an acute shortage of essential supplies like food, medicine, milk powder, cooking gas and fuel, on 22 March, 16 Sri Lankan nationals, from the northern part of the island…