UN, partners step up efforts to help uprooted in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | May 31, 2009 |

[ UN News Centre ] The United Nations, along with dozens of partner agencies, are working to improve basic conditions in camps housing people who fled the recently-ended conflict in northern Sri Lanka, it was announced today. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that since the arrival of the last…

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UN agency boosts support for displaced pregnant women

By pearlaction | May 8, 2009 |

[ UN News Centre ] The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today it is stepping up support for women and girls affected by the conflict in northern Sri Lanka, particularly those who are pregnant, amid disruptions to reproductive health services caused by ongoing fighting. UNFPA believes that at least 3,000 pregnant women have fled…

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Sri Lanka: continuing conflict sparks UN concern over fate of children

By pearlaction | January 21, 2009 |

[UN News Centre] A senior United Nations official today expressed concern over the fate of thousands of children caught up in the conflict in Sri Lanka pitting Government forces against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, said in a press release that…

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