Rapports

Australian NGOs are providing emergency assistance to the many communities in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia that were devastated by the massive earthquake overnight. Australian aid agencies are supporting their local partners in these countries…

By Paul Jeffrey, ACT International Colombo, January 3, 2005--Homeless and hungry, survivors of the tsunami that struck Sri Lanka on December 26 are struggling to carry on with life in almost a thousand temporary shelters around the island nation, accompanied…

The relief efforts below are being undertaken by individual Rotary clubs and districts. To contribute to these relief initiatives, please contact the Rotarian Disaster Relief Coordinator listed for the appropriate relief effort. Please contact the Rotarian coordinating relief efforts for…

AHRC-PL-01-2005 (Hong Kong, January 3, 2005) A Sri Lankan forensic expert slammed the country's law enforcement authorities on Monday for disposing of a large number of tsunami victims' bodies without any documentation and barring local forensic pathologists from collecting information from…

AMERICUS, GA (Jan. 3, 2005) -- Habitat for Humanity in Sri Lanka is working with other organizations to develop a prototype core shelter for the tens of thousands of families left homeless following the Dec. 26 tsunami. The prototype…

NEW YORK, 3 January 2005 - In response to last Sunday's catastrophic tsunami, UNICEF is seeking $81 million to support urgent humanitarian aid for the estimated 1.5 million affected children in South Asia, many of which have been orphaned…

COLOMBO, Jan 2, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Forensic experts from overseas have arrived at the Sri Lankan capital to assist in the process of identifying the bodies of foreign nationals killed in last week's Tsunami tidal wave attacks. Sri…

By Michael Perry BANGKOK, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted aid deliveries to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday, just as a global $2 billion relief operation started to kick in a week after walls of water…

Suite aux conséquences tragiques du raz-de-marée qui s'est produit en Asie du Sud-Est le 26 décembre 2004, le gouvernement luxembourgeois a décidé le 2 janvier 2004 de porter l'aide aux régions sinistrées à 5 millions d'euros. Dans le contexte de…

News No. 05/1 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has so far provided essential household items to nearly 12,150 families in the North and East of Sri Lanka hit by the Tsunami on 26 December. Each kit typically…