Reports

The Government has released and resettled a total number of 182,005 IDPs as at March 4, 2010, stated the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights in its latest report. Accordingly, the government has completed resettling 144,804 IDPs from Vavuniya,…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing additional financial assistance for the rehabilitation of conflict-affected areas in the Northern province of Sri Lanka, particularly to assist the return and resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). ADB will…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - Zone 5 in Menik Farm is now being used as a collection centre for IDPs during return movements, allowing IDPs access to water and sanitation facilities while they await transport to their districts of…

JAFFNA, 24 February 2010 (IRIN) - Thousands of children have returned to school in northern Sri Lanka, where efforts are under way to restore the area's battered education infrastructure. The Government of Sri Lanka aims to have all children from…

COLOMBO, 15 February 2010 (IRIN) - Sri Lankan government officials aim to resettle more than 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) by April after missing a self-imposed deadline to move everyone out of camps in the country's north by end-January. Rishad…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - Resettlement picked up again at the beginning of February. Returns occurred to Oddusuddan, Thunukkai and Manthai East (in Mullaitivu District), Manthai West and Madhu (in Mannar District), Vavuniya North (in Vavuniya District) of IDPs…

The Government has admitted 2,000 internally displaced children living outside the welfare camps to 59 regular public schools in Vavuniya and another 2,000 children deprived of school education would be admitted to Gamini Maha Vidyalaya in Vavuniya, Northern Province Governor…

VAVUNIYA, 1 February 2010 (IRIN) - As the results of Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election poured in, the mood at Menik Farm, in the main government-run camp for the ethnic Tamil internally displaced (IDPs), in the northern town…

I. Situation Overview & highlights - The 2010 Presidential Elections concluded on 26 January, with official results announced on 27 January. The incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed victory with 57.88% of the votes, while the opposition common candidate General Sarath…

COLOMBO, 26 January 2010 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka's first post-war election may not deliver any substantial improvement in healing long-lasting divides between the country's majority Singalese and minority Tamal communities unless the winner institutes substantive power sharing. Neither of the frontrunners,…