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Sri Lanka is still waiting for the money pledged by the donors. Money pledged by the people has been pledged to the NGOs." [14] Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, stated in a BBC interview, "A lot of aid what has been coming in latterly [15] is I'm afraid – I'm sorry to say – not very useful. For instance there was a ...
Kumar Rupesinghe (1943 – 20 February 2022) was a Sri Lankan academic and activist involved in social issues, particularly human rights, development issues, processes of globalisation, conflict prevention/resolution, and conflict transformation in the light of peacekeeping and peacebuilding for a harmonious coexistence among all peoples in the world.
Spain maintains diplomatic relations with Sri Lanka since 10 July 1955. Reciprocal visits include that of the President of Sri Lanka to Spain on 29 August 1979. As well as that the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos , who traveled to Colombo in January 2005, during a tour of the Asian countries most affected by the Indonesian ...
The Colombo Plan is a regional intergovernmental organization that began operations on 1 July 1951. The organization was conceived at an international conference, The Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs held in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950, and was attended by the finance ministers of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ceylon, Pakistan and New Zealand, and the ...
Nimalka Fernando. Nimalka Fernando is a Sri Lankan attorney-at-law and women’s rights activist. She is a member of the Democratic People’s Movement in Sri Lanka, which is a coalition of people’s movements, NGOs and trade unions initiating action and dialogue for alternative development paradigms. She is President of the International ...
Magazine at the headquarters of the Sarvodaya Movement (31 December 2004) Food and supplies to be delivered (31 December 2004) The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement is a self-governance movement in Sri Lanka, which provides comprehensive development and conflict resolution programs to villages. It is also the largest indigenous organization working ...
An international non-governmental organization (INGO) is an organization which is independent of government involvement and extends the concept of a non-governmental organization (NGO) to an international scope. NGOs are independent of governments and can be seen as two types: advocacy NGOs, which aim to influence governments with a specific ...
Launches emergency response and reconstruction activities in South Asia following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, with operations in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. [9] Acted opens a coordination office in Jordan to support its operations in the Middle East. [10] The NGO responds to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan. [11] 2006