The UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is leading efforts to protect women and girls' rights to give birth safely and live without gender-based violence, according to a statement issued on Monday.
"UNFPA is committed to meeting the (...)
Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to the country from Singapore, a Sri Lankan lawmaker says.
Cabinet spokesperson Bandula Gunawardena told reporters on Tuesday that Rajapaksa was not in hiding but the date of his (...)
Security forces in Sri Lanka raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early on Friday, arresting protesters and dismantling tents.
Hundreds of troops and police commandos moved on the protesters outside the presidential offices in (...)
Sri Lanka's Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as president, amid hopes that he will pull the country out of its economic suffering.
The 73-year-old took his oath at the tightly-guarded parliament complex on Thursday.
Wickremesinghe - the former (...)
Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president on Thursday, a day after winning a vote in parliament, Reuters reported.
The swearing in ceremony was conducted in parliament, and presided over by the country's chief (...)
Sri Lankan MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public.
Wickremesinghe faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse and restoring public order (...)
Sri Lanka's acting president called a state of emergency on Monday amid ongoing political turmoil in the South Asian nation.
"It is expedient, so to do, in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of (...)
The head of the UN Country Team in Sri Lanka has urged senior politicians to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in line with the national Constitution, following weeks of protests that finally saw the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on (...)
Sri Lanka's parliament has accepted ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation, ending rule by a family that wielded power for nearly 20 years.
Rajapaksa quit after fleeing to Singapore amid mass protests over his mismanagement of the (...)
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left for Singapore from the Maldives on Thursday.
The Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka said that Rajapaksa who fled from the country amid economic and political crises is headed to Singapore along with wife and (...)
Sri Lanka was calm as people waited for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled to the Maldives to escape a popular uprising that erupted as the country struggled with an economic crisis.
His decision to make his ally Prime Minister (...)
The Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early Wednesday morning, hours before he was due to step down amid a devastating economic crisis that has triggered severe shortages of food and fuel.
Rajapaksa, along with his wife and two (...)
The Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced in a special statement, Wednesday, that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as Acting President in accordance with the Constitution.
Sri (...)
Sri Lanka's speaker of parliament on Monday said political party leaders have decided to elect a new president on July 20 through a vote in parliament.
In a statement, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said that following a meeting with all political (...)
Sri Lanka's opposition political parties will meet Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country's president and prime minister offered to resign in the most dramatic day of months long political turmoil, with protesters storming both (...)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign in the coming days, the speaker of Sri Lanka's Parliament said on a tumultuous Saturday that also saw the prime minister say he would step down.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised (...)
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled from President's House on Saturday as enraged protesters demanding to resolve the acute economic crisis in the country stormed his house.
The Sri Lankan news site Daily Mirror reported that Rajapaksa fled (...)
Sri Lanka is "bankrupt," Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Tuesday, as the country suffers its worst financial crisis in decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine and fuel.
Wickremesinghe told lawmakers that negotiations with (...)
Sri Lanka's energy minister has issued a stark warning over the country's fuel stocks as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years.
On Sunday, Kanchana Wijesekera said the nation only had enough petrol left for less than a day under (...)
Sri Lanka has suspended sales of fuel for non-essential vehicles as it faces its worst economic crisis in decades.
For the next two weeks only buses, trains, and vehicles used for medical services and transporting food will be allowed to fill up (...)
Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and encourage them to grow food, the government said on Tuesday according to Reuters.
The island nation, which employs about one (...)
Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and encourage them to grow food, the government said on Tuesday according to Reuters.
The island nation, which employs about one (...)
Sri Lanka's prime minister says the country needs at least $5bn (£4bn) over the next six months to pay for essential goods as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years.
Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament the money is needed for (...)
Sri Lanka is calling on farmers to grow more rice as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years.
The country's agriculture minister made the appeal as he said the country's "food situation is becoming worse".
It comes as severe (...)
For the past 15 years, India and China have vied for favourable diplomatic and trade relations with Sri Lanka thanks to its strategic location in the Indian ocean.
While popular perception indicated China had outpaced India, the recent economic and (...)
