Reports

A group of rehabilitated LTTE child soldiers will arrive in Colombo to continue their educational activities. Accordingly, 258 children will continue their higher education at the Hindu Colleges in Ratmalana and Wellawatte. The government provides them all necessary facilities including food…

Experiencing something similar to a normal everyday life Since August this year SOS Children's Villages has been running a childcare centre at the huge Chettikulam refugee camp which lies close to the city of Vavuniya and which is still is…

COLOMBO, Oct 13, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka's Tamil minority political parities said Tuesday that the 10,000 Tamil Tiger rebels surrendered to the military in the final battles between the government troops and the Liberation Tigers of…

The government has already launched programmes to rehabilitate children conscripted by the LTTE terrorist organization. The rehabilitation programme is underway at Punthottam in Vavuniya and the children rehabilitated are being provided school education and vocational training. The rehabilitation process has been…

After lapse of three long decades, the students of Jaffna and other parts of the North will receive their text books for the year 2010 at a ceremony scheduled in the peninsula. The venue of the event is yet…

Sri Lanka's Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU, Ravinatha Aryasinha has urged that the displaced persons in Sri Lanka be not used as a political tool, but instead that those being critical, step up and help the Government…

The European Union provides a new secondary school building for 300 children and 13 teachers of Ameer Ali village, in Ampara, eastern Sri Lanka. Prior to the new school building, students and teachers conducted classes in a temporary shed. The…

BANGKOK, 30 September 2009 (IRIN) The international community is increasingly worried about the pace of resettling more than 260,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from closed camps in Sri Lanka, a senior UN representative warns. "There is a growing concern from the…

President doing utmost to build peaceful democratic society, - 42,000 IDPs already released for resettlement, - Bulk of IDPs resettled by January 31, 2010, within 180 day programme, - Full resettlement only after complete demining, - 1.5 m landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) within…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - On 14 September, the Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe rejected claims made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillai, that the displaced people in Sri Lanka are…