Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. ... Otherwise, ...

GENEVA, April 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have just released a report that examines the impact of a cash grant provided by UNHCR to help ...

The ongoing conflict between the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) and the Sinhalese-dominated government has kept Sri Lanka in civil war for the last 27 years. A designated terrorist group, the LTTE are accused of ...

In Sri Lanka we need strong and continued support from the International Community and especially from our friends in the USA in the great enterprise we have undertaken to graduate from poverty to ...

Sri Lanka conflict: 'Why can't you find our sons?' Published. 10 September 2018. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. ... The area was in ruins when I was last there in early 2009.

For some strange reason Sri Lanka never asked the international community to examine a report released by the UN Country Team that dealt with the situation in the Vanni from Aug 2008 to May 13, 2009.

Sri Lanka has the highest number of elephant deaths caused by conflict with humans, and second-highest number of human deaths caused by elephants. In 2022 and 2023, over 800 elephants in Sri Lanka ...

OSLO, Norway -- After a bitter 19-year war, Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebels reached a breakthrough in their quest for peace Thursday, agreeing on a way to govern their ethnically divided island ...

The armed conflict that raged in Sri Lanka for decades opened a space for women in Jaffna's Tamil society to assume new and different roles. Both in the private and public spheres. And this has ...

KOLKATA ― The recent report of Sri Lankan Buddhist religious leaders prodding President Mahinda Rajapaksa to be more forthright in dealing with Tamil ultras is surely a cause for concern. Such a ...

GENEVA, April 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation have just released a report that examines the impact of a cash grant provided by UNHCR to help ...

Sri Lanka conflict: 'Why can't you find our sons?' 10 September 2018. Share Save. ... Northern Tamil areas are still dotted with dozens of military camps and installations, ...