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On 31st December 2018, the second relief team, consisting of AMDA Sri Lanka, St. John Ambulance Sri Lanka and the AMDA nurse, arrived at Kilinochchi, a northern province of Sri Lanka. (Kilinochchi is one of the…
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In response to the flooding occurred in the north provinces of Sri Lanka on 21st December, AMDA Sri Lanka launched emergency relief in Kilinochchi*, one of the northern provinces of the country, on 24th jointly with…
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Sri Lanka reiterated its commitment to creating a mine-free Sri Lanka by 2020 at the 17th Meeting of the State Parties to the Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) organised by the International Centre for Humanitarian Demining…
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A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster In May 2017, the activation of South-West Monsoon weather conditions caused heavy rainfalls in the South-Eastern parts of the island. This triggered a major flood and landslide situation in the country,…
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"Despite repeated pledges by the authorities, the military has been frustratingly slow to restore land to the rightful owners" By Rina Chandran BANGKOK, Oct 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sri Lanka has failed to fulfil pledges to return…
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This article, by Minister of State for Asia and The Pacific Mark Field, was published in the Sri Lanka Daily Mirror on 4 October. Next year Sri Lanka will have enjoyed 10 uninterrupted years free from the…
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Extreme weather events dominate the news but changing average weather patterns are proving equally devastating to poor and vulnerable people in climate hotspots across South Asia. About 19 million people in Sri Lanka today live in…
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Full summary This policy brief is based on the working paper titled ‘The political economy of violence: Women’s economic relations in post-war Sri Lanka’ and focuses on women’s engagement in beedi rolling, in a village in Jaffna.…
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For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 35580 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends, Approximately 35.2% of dengue cases…
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For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 35211 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends, Approximately 35.2% of dengue cases…
