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EU calls for humanitarian ceasefire in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | February 20, 2009 |

[AFP] EU foreign ministers are set to make a joint call next week for an immediate ceasefire between Sri Lankan security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels to allow aid in and civilians out of the conflict zone. “The EU is deeply concerned about the evolving humanitarian crisis and vast number of internally displaced people,” according…

Save the Children launches emergency aid effort for Sri Lanka civil war victims

By pearlaction | February 17, 2009 |

[Save the Children] Save the Children has begun delivering life-saving aid to some of the thousands of civilians who have been able to flee the war zone in northern Sri Lanka. Nearly 28,000 people – many of whom have lost everything – have arrived in the district of Vavuniya, approximately 100km south of the fighting,…

Take Aid From China and Take a Pass on Human Rights

By pearlaction | March 9, 2008 |

[NY Times] FOR 25 years, the dirty little war on this island in the Indian Ocean has stretched its octopus arms across the world. The ethnic Tamil diaspora has provided vital funding for separatist rebels; remittances from Sri Lankan workers abroad have propped up the economy; the government has relied on foreign assistance to battle…