Reports

Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the United Nations at the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict urged the Working Group to call upon the LTTE to forthwith release all child combatants within the ranks…

COLOMBO, 20 February 2008 (IRIN) Children in Sri Lanka are increasingly being killed and injured and having their education disrupted as bombing attacks attributable to the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and government security forces drive families from their…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Sri Lanka is in civil war again, and there are no prospects of a peace process resuming soon. On 2 January 2008, the government announced its withdrawal from a ceasefire agreement with the Liberation Tigers of…

Save the Children in Sri Lanka deplores the increase in violence in the country and the impact it has on children.  The trend of targeting civilians has escalated dramatically over the past few weeks. Claymore attacks on civilians in…

The Government of Japan has provided Rs. 343 million for the reconstruction of five Tsunami affected schools in Batticaloa and Ampara districts. The construction work has completed last year and the schools were officially opened for educational activities on 7th…

Children who lost everything in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami are celebrating the official opening of Ruhunu Vijayabha School - the largest project ever undertaken by Plan Sri Lanka. When the tsunami hit southern Sri Lanka it devastated communities and…

By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 13 people with two roadside bombs on Monday, just hours after the government celebrated the island's 60th anniversary of independence with a parade of military might in…

This Report is an updated version of a presentation made on the Humanitarian Situation in Sri Lanka by a Representative of the Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) at the Sri Lanka Development Forum held…

Cologne. On Ash Wednesday, 6 February, Malteser International starts its Lent Campaign 2008: „40 Euros for Sri Lanka'. Until Easter, the water and sanitation engineer Suzanna Lipscombe will report on a weekly basis from Sri Lanka on her projects,…

17 - 24 Jan 2008 IDP trends as reported this week by GAs Location Number of families Number of individuals Killinochchi 13,322 51,287 Mullaitivu 8,997 32,096 Vavuniya 3,027 10,643 Mannar 6,343 23,576 Trincoamlee 1,166 3,742 Batticaloa 7,046 26,512 Ampara 1,525 5,695 KILINOCHCHI…