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Originally published in The Hindustan Times. Alan Keenan Senior Consultant, Sri Lanka akeenan23 With the swearing in of Ranil Wickremesinghe as Sri Lanka’s new president, the country briefly caught its breath after weeks of crisis, generated by public anger at…

We are alarmed by the unnecessary use of force reportedly employed by Sri Lanka’s security forces to break up a protest camp near presidential offices in Colombo – only hours before the protesters indicated that it…

The new Sri Lankan President must immediately stop the shameful, brutal assault on peaceful protestors, Amnesty International said today after the military carried out a pre-dawn attack on the peaceful protest site outside the Presidential Secretariat,…

International Partners Should Promote Upholding Rights With Economic Recovery Aid (New York) – In the early hours of July 22, 2022, Sri Lankan security forces forcibly dispersed people at a peaceful protest site and assaulted protesters in…

In Numbers 6.3 million people are food insecure. This is likely to deteriorate as the crisis unfolds. 6.7 million people are not consuming acceptable diets. 3.4 million people are planned to be targeted by WFP to receive emergency food,…

GENEVA (20 July 2022) – Independent Experts* today expressed alarm about record high inflation, rising commodity prices, power shortages, crippling fuel crisis and the economic collapse in Sri Lanka, as the country grapples with unprecedented political…

Colombo/Kuala Lumpur, 21 July 2022 – The economic crisis in Sri Lanka is tipping into one of the country’s worst humanitarian crises in decades, with 6.7 million people now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Millions of…

Responding to the government notification for emergency regulations released online as a new President was voted to power today in Sri Lanka, Thyagi Ruwanpathirana, Amnesty International’s South Asia Regional Researcher, said: “The emergency regulations brought into operation…

This report is produced by the OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) on behalf of the ISCG. The updates below cover activities carried out between 9 June and 15 July 2022 and provide…

Joint Media Release by the Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. and Heart to Heart International United States Consequent to the request of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington D.C., and under the guidance of His…