The United Nations (UN) team in Sri Lanka and non-governmental organisations have today revised and extended their joint Humanitarian Needs and Priorities (HNP) Plan, which aims to provide...
Team to work with the Marine Environment Protection Authority and other government agencies Colombo, 19th June 2021: A UN team of oil spill and chemical experts, provided by the European Union (EU),...
17 June 2021, COLOMBO: To support the Government’s immediate response to the MV X-Press Pearl wreck off the coast of Sri Lanka, the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Japanese Embassy in the country, Mr...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This UN Advisory Paper: Immediate Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka (henceforth, Advisory Paper) has been developed in accordance with the agreement with the...
Sri Lanka was once again affected by severe floods and landslides, in May 2017. While the spread of disaster situation was confined only to 15 districts compared to the 24 districts in the previous...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This document is a compendium of projects aimed to respond to the priorities outlined in the Joint Plan of Assistance (JPA) to the Northern Province 2011. The JPA was developed...
MEDIA ADVISORY WHO: Mr. John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Mission to Sri Lanka WHEN: 17-19 November WHY: To assess...
Introduction Six weeks after the conclusion of the war in Sri Lanka, the UN continues its support to Government of Sri Lanka's operations in the camps in Vavuniya, Jaffna and Trincomalee. These camps...
The UN understands that two of its national staff members have been arrested. The two employees, one from UNHCR and one from UNOPS, were reported as missing 8 days ago, after which it emerged that...
COLOMBO, 5 May 2009: The United Nations and Government of Sri Lanka said today that an urgent appeal has been launched for $50 million to meet the most immediate humanitarian needs of civilians...
The Office of the UN Resident Coordinator has received a number of queries regarding casualty figures that began circulating in the media ten days ago. The UN Under-Secretary General John Holmes has...
COLOMBO, 23 April 2009: The UN today issued an urgent appeal for funds to meet the critical needs of an exodus of thousands of people who are fleeing fighting. Speaking from Colombo after returning...
COLOMBO, 19 March 2009: The UN in Sri Lanka is saddened to learn of the death of a CARE national staff member, who succumbed to injuries sustained as a result of shelling inside the No Fire Zone,...
10 March Colombo - The United Nations said today that the high energy BP-100 therapeutic food found on a dead LTTE cadre, as reported by the Ministry of Defense, was part of a nutritional programme...
COLOMBO, 16 February 2009: The United Nations' concern for the welfare of the civilian population caught up in the fighting has heightened based on reports received in the last few days. While the...
Colombo, 28 January 2009: The United Nations in Sri Lanka says that it will attempt for the second time in three days to help evacuate by convoy hundreds of critically wounded civilians from the war...
The United Nations in Sri Lanka has issued its strongest possible protest to the LTTE for their refusal to allow UN national staff and dependents to return from the Vanni with the present UN convoy. ...
Colombo, 3 December 2008: The UN Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) in Sri Lanka, Mr Neil Buhne, condemns the murder of a humanitarian worker in Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka last week. Mr A. Vigneswaran...
COLOMBO, 3 November 2008: The United Nations says that it has dispatched another major food convoy into the Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka. The 29 truck World Food Programme convoy carrying 438...
COLOMBO, 28 October 2008: The UN says that it has discovered two pistols hidden on the premises of one of its offices. The Makarov pistols, and 48 rounds of ammunition, had been secreted under an...
