Reports

Research by Save the Children in Sri Lanka, focused on consultations with children in the South, East and North of the country reveals that over 70% of school children in Tsunami-affected areas continue to study under extremely difficult conditions. Difficulties…

Overall Situation In Killinochchi the majority of public, private and humanitarian construction has stopped due to government regulations on cement, gravel, iron etc being allowed across the lines into LTTE controlled area. Agencies have applied for the permit but the…

By Ravi R. Prasad Almost every working day of the week at least some 10 people make a beeline to a small bungalow situated in a narrow lane in the heart of the southern Matara town. Carrying files and papers in…

By Simon Gardner TALAIMANNAR, Sri Lanka, June 20 (Reuters) - Maduraweeran Kantharajah was so desperate to flee conflict between Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels that he sold his furniture and wife's jewellery to pay smugglers to sail his…

Representatives from INFORM (Sunila Abeysekera and Udaya Kalupathirana), The Centre for Policy Alternatives (Bhavani Fonseka) and Rukshana Fernando (Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development) traveled to Udappuwa in Puttalam District on 18 June 2006, to investigate reports of Internally…

By Blue Chevigny NEW YORK, 16 June 2006 - Yesterday a landmine exploded under a crowded bus in the northern part of Sri Lanka, killing upwards of 60 people, 18 of them children. It was just one of many recent…

Overall Situation On June 15, 63 civilians were killed in a claymore mine attack on a packed civilian bus in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, with more than eighty others injured, including school-aged children. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights…

Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka has resulted in Tamil refugees landing in Tamil Nadu, India over the last one month. The majority of the refugees are from Mannar-Trincomalee belt in Sri Lanka. In the last 30 days more than…

Alleviate poverty in 119 Divisional Secretariat areas The Cabinet has granted approval to a Memorandum submitted by H.E. the President Mahinda Rajapaksa on alleviation of poverty and rural development under the concept of Mahinda Chintana. A sum of Rs.46 billion has…

Overall Situation Due to the overall deterioration of the situation in Ampara, in particular for some areas of Central Camp, GOAL had reported that most building contractors (from other parts of the country) are leaving the district fearing LTTE attacks…