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News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: From village clinic to global research hub in post-conflict Sri Lanka

News channel or source: https://bioengineer.org/from-village-clinic-to-global-research-hub-in-post-conflict-sri-lanka/

Published on: Sunday 25 October 2026

A community case study documents how a small family health center in post-conflict Jaffna, Sri Lanka, evolved between 2012 and 2026 into a nationally recognized primary care, education and research ...

News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: Poor families in northern Sri Lanka flee to India to avoid hunger

News channel or source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/23/fzvn-m23.html

Published on: Saturday 21 May 2022

Reports indicate that dozens of poor families from northern Sri Lanka have fled to southern India, including Tamil Nadu, in the past four months to avoid hunger. Rising prices and shortages of ...

News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: Mass protests in Sri Lanka’s northern and eastern provinces against Wickremesinghe’s Anti-Terrorism Bill

News channel or source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/ucnm-a28.html

Published on: Wednesday 26 April 2023

Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged northern and eastern provinces were brought to a standstill on Tuesday by a mass hartal (strike and business closure) in protest against President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s new ...

News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: Sri Lanka’s Northern Fishermen Finding Themselves Ensnared In Growing Geopolitical Rivalry Throughout Indian Ocean – Analysis

News channel or source: https://www.eurasiareview.com/24022025-sri-lankas-northern-fishermen-finding-themselves-ensnared-in-growing-geopolitical-rivalry-throughout-indian-ocean-analysis/

Published on: Monday 24 February 2025

“We will not allow ourselves to be used against India – we will get help from anyone – on that basis we received help from China – for that China cannot use us to threaten India’s national security in ...

News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: Diversity brings prosperity in Northern Sri Lanka

News channel or source: https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/diversity-brings-prosperity-northern-sri-lanka

Published on: Tuesday 31 May 2016

BANGKOK (ILO News) – On the small farm behind their house, 42-year-old Suppiramaniyam Thayalini and her husband were digging out their first harvest of cassavas; five big, cone-shaped roots. An export ...

News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: UNHCR protection network brings hope to abused women in northern Sri Lanka

News channel or source: https://www.unhcr.org/news/unhcr-protection-network-brings-hope-abused-women-northern-sri-lanka

Published on: Tuesday 28 November 2006

MANNAR, Sri Lanka, November 29 (UNHCR) - A wave of relief and happiness washed over Shanthi* as she watched her grandmother walk into the UNHCR office in Mannar. After years of sexual and physical ...

News Sri Lanka » Northern » Social: EMPOWER: Building peace through the economic empowerment of women in Northern Sri Lanka

News channel or source: https://www.ilo.org/projects-and-partnerships/projects/empower-building-peace-through-economic-empowerment-women-northern-sri

Published on: Monday 08 January 2018

The objective of this project is to increase access to economic empowerment, social integration, resilience and peacebuilding participation for conflict affected women in Mullaitivu, one of the most ...

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