Reports

Theme : ‘Early warning and early action for all; and leave no one behind’ Defence Secretary pledges to strengthen coordination and cooperation between various institutions responsible for early warning State Minister of Defence Hon Premitha Bandara Tennakoon (Oct…

President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed all the District Secretaries to coordinate the relief work with the help of the Disaster Management centre for those affected by the prevailing bad weather conditions. The President has also mentioned that all…

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Colombo/Kuala Lumpur, 14 October 2022 – The deepening economic crisis is forcing people to make heartbreaking choices between going hungry, buying life-saving medicine, or finding the money to send children to school. A needs assessment by the…

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Foreword This document is a compilation of rapid food security assessment carried out in 8 provinces of Sri Lanka to understand the vulnerability of households to food insecurity resulting from the disruptions to global and national food…

Direct Relief Delivers 18 Tons of Desperately Needed Medicine, Establishes Humanitarian Aid Channels By Paul M. Sherer Since Sri Lanka announced in April that it would default on its foreign debt, its 22 million residents have lost access…

Responding to the resolution on Sri Lanka adopted today at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which strengthens and extends the accountability mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Dinushika Dissanayake,…

COLOMBO, October 6, 2022—Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is deepening with unsustainable debt and a severe balance of payment crisis on top of lingering scars of the COVID-19 pandemic. Debt restructuring and the implementation of a deep…