Rapports

World Vision has set a $50 million goal to help the victims of the South Asia disaster, the largest single commitment in the organization's 54-year history. "This is the greatest human emergency of our time," says World Vision International President…

Colombo (dpa) - The Sri Lankan government has moved in to protect children hit by the tsunami following complaints that displaced children were being taken away for adoption without proper authority, officials said Monday. Sri Lanka's National Childcare Protection Authority (NCPA),…

Personnel, supplies distributed across wide region of devastation By David Shelby, Washington File Staff Writer Washington - Coordinating the movement of relief personnel and equipment across the region devastated by the December 26 tsunami is a key challenge as relief efforts move…

January 03, 2005, GALLE, Sri Lanka - As the death toll from the tsunami in South Asia soars past 120,000, South Korean medics and aid workers have begun carrying out relief efforts. The Korean nongovernmental organization Good Neighbors last Thursday…

COLOMBO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Rapists are preying on survivors of Sri Lanka's deadly tsunamis, taking advantage of lax security at refuge centres for those made homeless in the disaster, a women's collective said on Monday. The group urged authorities…

Emergency assessments were conducted in Batticaloa, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and Trincomalee1 Districts to determine the effects of the 26 December tsunami on landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination. These began immediately after the tsunami and are ongoing. Nevertheless enough information…

A large number of countries from all over the world, UN Agencies, International Organisations and International NGOs continue to provide or pledge disaster relief and monetary assistance. The countries which have given or pledged assistance up to now are as…

Details of affected communities that includes the numbers of displaced and missing.[These details are updated two timesa day.] (pdf* format - 58.8 KB)

Le ministre de la Coopération et de l'Action humanitaire Jean-Louis Schiltz et le Commissaire européen Louis Michel, en déplacement dans les régions sinistrées du raz-de-marée, sont arrivés dimanche 2 janvier 2005 à Colombo au Sri Lanka pour se rendre…

Alors que la pluie ne cesse de tomber sur la côte Est du Sri Lanka, les inondations rendent encore plus complexe l'accès aux populations qui ont trouvé refuge dans des édifices publics. Près de 800 000 personnes déplacées en raison…