Rapports

The UK Government will clear landmines and explosive remnants of war from areas of Northern Sri Lanka A new programme to clear landmines and explosive remnants of war from areas of Northern Sri Lanka devastated by conflict…

COLOMBO/KATHMANDU, 28 October 2013 (IRIN) - Nearly one million schoolchildren - about a third of the school-age population in Sri Lanka - do not have safe sanitation, despite the island’s overall sanitation coverage reaching near 89…

COLOMBO/KILINOCHCHI, 10 October 2013 (IRIN) - With more women taking up as family breadwinners in Sri Lanka’s former war zone - the island’s north - the region is recording an increase in women turning to survival…

Commonwealth Observer Mission Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council Elections, 21 September 2013 Statement of Preliminary Findings Statement by: Commonwealth Observer Mission Jaffna, Sri Lanka The Commonwealth Observer Mission has been present in Sri Lanka since 14 September 2013. The mission’s mandate…

VAVUNIYA, 20 September 2013 (IRIN) - Calm has prevailed thus far as voters prepare for a provincial council poll on 21 September, the first to be held since a decades-long separatist conflict ended in Sri Lanka's…

COLOMBO – Nearly 170 schools in Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu in Northern Sri Lanka have received new kitchen utensils, bowls and spoons from the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) to supplement the school meals programmes implemented by…

COLOMBO, 17 July 2013 (IRIN) - Close to 100,000 returnees in Sri Lanka’s north lack national identity cards (NICs), more than four years after the end of the country’s decades-long [civil war](http://Prospects for reconciliation in Sri…

Period covered by this Ops Update: 1 December 2012 to 31 May 2013 Appeal target (current): CHF 23.3 million. Appeal coverage: 45 per cent based on current revised appeal budget. Appeal history: Emergency Appeal: This was initially launched on 12 April 2010…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, 25 June 2013 – Sri Lanka has made tremendous progress in getting children into school. Due to a policy to universalize primary education over seventy years ago, 98 per cent of children enrolled…

Period covered by this Final Report: 2 November 2012 to 9 April 2013 Appeal target (current): CHF 184,357 Appeal coverage: 99 per cent Appeal history: · This Emergency Appeal was initially launched on 2 November 2012 for CHF 1,070,504 for…