(New York) - With the complicity or willful blindness of the Sri Lankan government, the Karuna group has abducted and forcibly recruited hundreds of children in eastern Sri Lanka, Human Rights ...

Turbocharged monsoon floods are intensifying the spread of waterborne diseases in the Indian Ocean island nation For a week, seven-year-old Nathushika suffered from diarrhoea, vomiting, and a high ...

By Rathindra Kuruwita There are between 15,000 and 30,000 street children in the country, according to the last study on the subject, Dr. Chamal Sanjeewa, Chairman of the Professional Forum of ...

Half of Sri Lanka families reducing children food intake: Charity The government and the global community must act to prevent the country’s children from ‘becoming a lost generation’, warns ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka say at least five people have died, including three children, after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides.

COLOMBO, 28 July 2022 – Nearly one in three parents responding to Save the Children’s survey in June 2022, have noticed negative changes in their children’s behaviour in the last 6 months. Since the ...

The child joins the growing list of infants born with low birth weight - a direct impact of depleting gestational nutrition. Food has been at the centre of Sri Lanka's economic crisis.

The scarcity of food would lead to a protein-calorie imbalance and this imbalance will lead to wasting in children. Previously too, around 15% of Sri Lanka’s children experienced wasting.

On 1st January 2024, The President of Sri Lanka and the Cabinet Minister of Women and Child Affairs and Social Empowerment have implemented the Children and Young Persons.... ..

As Sri Lanka's economic crisis pushes food prices out of reach, UNICEF is helping malnourished children survive.

It relies on donations to continue the program. Community kitchens and food handouts like these are helping to fill the gap in parts of Sri Lanka, but still many children are going hungry.