Shelter Centre

Date: 23 Jul 2010
Source: IFRC

Source: IRIN Internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to Sri Lanka's Eastern Province face a big problem - elephants which have taken a liking to abandoned homesteads.

Source: IRIN Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) returning home from camps in northern Sri Lanka are concerned about access to potable water and slow progress in clearing landmines.

Date: 11 Jun 2010
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Date: 28 May 2010
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Date: 21 May 2010
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

World Vision - Asia Pacific Severe floods triggered by torrential rains have killed 24 people and affected over 524,000 in south western Sri Lanka as the island continued to experience unprecedented levels of rain for the ...

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Tharmalingam Sountharrajan had little knowledge of the bomb-making factory 700 metres from the family home in the heart of his village. Containing hundreds of mines, explosives, mortars and other ...

Christian Aid - UK May 18 2010 A year since the Sri Lankan conflict ended there are still 76,000 people living in temporary camps. Christian Aid urges the new British government to make a renewed effort to work ...

May 17, 2010: "e; COLOMBO (AFP) - At least three people were killed and about 75,000 people were driven out of their homes as monsoon rains lashed Sri Lanka on Monday, the disaster management centre said.Some roads in the capital and in worst-hit cent...

Source: UNHCR The UN refugee agency welcomes the resumption of government-led return movements in northern Sri Lanka, following a three-week pause.

Source: UNHCR We welcome last week's resumption of Government-led return movements in northern Sri Lanka, following a three week temporary pause due to parliamentary elections and Tamil New Year. Following this, ...

Date: 27 Apr 2010
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Source: IRIN The latest UN figures show that 160,000 houses in northern Sri Lanka have to be repaired or rebuilt as the conflict-displaced return to their home areas.

Date: 30 Mar 2010
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Date: 24 Feb 2010
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Source: IRIN About a year ago, civil war raged around Vasanthi Kumari's house in northern Sri Lanka. "There was a loud sound and 'Appa' [father] went out," Kumari, 21, told IRIN. "That was the last time we saw him alive." Because of the danger, she said, the family could not even bury him properly. "We just dug a hole and put him there."

Source: IRIN As the results of Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election poured in, the mood at Menik Farm, in the main government-run camp for the ethnic Tamil internally displaced (IDPs), in the northern town of Vavuniya, was sober.

Source: UNHCR Kavitha is one of tens of thousands of displaced ethnic Tamils to return to their homes from camps in northern Sri Lanka. She still faces many challenges.

BATTICALOA Thursday, December 24, 2009 (IRIN) - The Asian tsunami left more than 220,000 people dead in 13 countries, including some 35,000 in Sri Lanka. Koneshwari Sivaganeshan, 11, who lives with her grandmother in the eastern town of Batticaloa, recalls that day five years ago.