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Displaced Sri Lankan family at a transitional shelter

UN presents $37.5 million aid plan to help Sri Lankans affected by violence

30 August 2006
With more than 200,000 Sri Lankans fleeing their homes in recent months to escape escalating violence between the Government and Tamil separatists, the United Nations humanitarian office today presented an inter-agency appeal calling for $37.5 million to provide food, water, protection and other urgent assistance.
Displaced residents on road to Muttur, eastern Sri Lanka

More than 200,000 Sri Lankans now displaced by fighting – UN refugee agency

25 August 2006
After gaining greater access to areas of strife-torn Sri Lanka that had been cut off by recent fighting between Government forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers, the United Nations refugee agency says the number of people dislodged from their homes since April has surged to 204,620.
Family on the move in the Jaffna peninsula

Sri Lanka: UN agency calls on both sides of conflict to allow urgent aid to get through

18 August 2006
Aid workers need access to deliver vital humanitarian supplies to thousands of Sri Lankan civilians who are running short of water and food after their communities were cut off by fighting between the Government and separatist Tamil Tigers, the United Nations refugee agency warned today.
An exhausted displaced person being helped along

More UN officials deplore violence in Sri Lanka as toll on children rises

15 August 2006
Reacting to a bombing in Sri Lanka on Monday that reportedly killed dozens of children and wounded many more, two senior United Nations officials added their voices to growing international calls for the Government and separatist rebels to lay down their arms and resume talks.

Alarmed at rising violence in Sri Lanka, Annan calls for halt to fighting

14 August 2006
Adding his voice to a growing chorus of United Nations officials speaking out against the rising bloodshed in Sri Lanka, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today deplored recent attacks, including the weekend assassination of a Government peace official, and called on both sides to stop fighting and resume talks.
IDPs in northeast Sri Lanka, Trincomalee area

Sri Lanka: UN experts denounce murders of aid workers as numbers of displaced surge

11 August 2006
Tens of thousands of Sri Lankans have been forced to flee their homes because of the escalating violence in the northeast of the country, the United Nations refugee agency said today as it warned that many more have probably been displaced but cannot be reached by humanitarian groups because of the continued fighting.
IDPs in north-east Sri Lanka's Trincomalee region

UN refugee agency steps up aid to Sri Lankans displaced by recent fighting

8 August 2006
Following an upsurge of violence in Sri Lanka, the United Nations refugee agency has stepped up its efforts to provide assistance to victims of the conflict between the Government and Tamil separatists, but aid workers are still unable to reach thousands of others in need of help.

Condemning execution-style killings of aid workers in Sri Lanka, UN urges probe

7 August 2006
The United Nations today strongly condemned the execution-style killings of 15 aid workers from French organization Action against Hunger in northeastern Sri Lanka, calling on the authorities to apprehend those responsible and urging an immediate cessation of hostilities between Tamil separatists and the Government on the strife-torn island.
Displaced by violence in Sri Lanka

Thousands more reportedly flee fighting in Sri Lanka, says UN refugee agency

4 August 2006
The United Nations refugee agency today called deep concern about the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka caught in the crossfire between the government forces and fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Kofi Annan

Annan calls for relief access in strife-torn Sri Lanka, immediate end to fighting

3 August 2006
Expressing deep concern about increasing violence in Sri Lanka, particularly the escalation caused by a water dispute in the northeast, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on all sides to cease hostilities immediately, allow humanitarian agencies unimpeded access to those affected and resume peace talks.