Rapports

COLOMBO, 22nd September 2009 - UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in collaboration with the Family Health Bureau of the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition and the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka (FPASL), opened five family health clinics in…

WFP will begin facilitating individual cooking in zones II and VI of the largest IDP camp at Menic Farm, as NGO's have exhausted their funds to continue with communal cooking arrangements. WFP plans to distribute dry food rations to…

(By : Nadira Gunatilleke) The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry will appoint 900 post intern doctors to State hospitals today. A group of them (325) will be posted to hospitals in the North and East. These doctors can make requests…

Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition Nimal Siripala de Silva told the 62nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for South East Asia in Kathmandu that many countries including India, Germany, Italy and USA and several organizations supported Sri Lanka…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - On 31 August, the Colombo High Court sentenced journalist J. S. Tissainayagam to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for writing and publishing articles critical of the Sri Lankan Government's treatment of Tamils affected by the…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last fact sheet was dated August 10, 2009. KEY DEVELOPMENTS From August 18 to September 4, USAID/OFDA health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) advisors…

Friday August 7, 2009: at 06:45 in the morning a convoy of nine blue and white UN-trucks leave the WFP hub in Vavuniya. Stop to pick up some colleagues at the staff house, call in to the radio room…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - On 18 August, the Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services called for registrations by persons seeking to claim ownership of land in the north and east, which they had been compelled to abandon…

An SOS Children's Villages' temporary care project has been providing shelter for 161 unaccompanied children in Chettikulum in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka since 19 August. The Minister of Child Development and Women's Empowerment, Ms Sumedha G. Jayasena, officially opened the…

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will provide significant assistance to enhance food security, nutrition and farming activities in the East. This follows the FAO approving the 'Enhancing Food Security and Nutrition among the farm families…