Reports

Unknown persons hurled three hand grenades at security personnel at the Stadium Junction and twice at Hospital Junction. In retaliation, SLF opened fire and several persons were injured including four SLA personnel. The area was cordoned and search operations…

C'est au sein de contextes politiques, économiques et géographiques parfois complexes, que les partenaires du Secours Catholique au Sri Lanka, en Inde, en Indonésie s'attachent à accompagner, dans la durée, les communautés sinistrées par le tsunami du 26 décembre 2004…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA) was established in November 2005. RADA is the result of His Excellency President Rajapakse's vision to create a single government agency to focus on reconstruction and development issues across all sectors and…

ASA 37/017/2006 News Service No: 158 The increasing violence in Sri Lanka is creating new waves of displaced people and adding to the fear and insecurity felt by the hundreds of thousands of people who already have been forced from their…

Overall Situation On 28 June the United States inaugurated the first phase of an overall revitalization of the Hikkaduwa fishing harbor in the South as well as at harbors in Mirissa and Puranawella. The project is a key element of…

Maximum security to be provided to schools The Education Ministry and the Ministry of Defence have taken necessary steps to ensure the safety of all schools. The Education Ministry appeals to parents, to not be deceived by rumours and to…

Representatives from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera and Udaya Kalupathirana) and The Centre for Policy Alternatives (Dr. Devanesan Nesiah, Bhavani Fonseka and Mirak Raheem) traveled to Mannar, Pesalai and Talaimannar on the 28th of June, to assess the prevailing situation there. BACKGROUND Mannar…

The refugee wave continues. One hundred and ten Sri Lankan Tamils were offloaded by boats into neck deep water off the coast of Dhanushkodi today, 27 June 2006. They included 38 men, 37 women, 20 boys and 15 girls…

BMICH, Colombo, Monday 26th June 2006 . . . . At a time of crisis in Sri Lanka over 70 peace-builders from the international Catholic humanitarian organisation, Caritas Internationalis, today gathered in Colombo to begin the first ever Caritas…