Full Coverage: South Asia

29.05.2009 Poor communities in Pakistan’s northwest – already among the poorest in the world – are hosting up to two million people uprooted by recent violence in the region, warns an international aid agency.
+ SOS Children to offer emergency shelter to Pakistani refugees

26.05.2009 People trapped in the Swat conflict zone in Pakistan face a humanitarian catastrophe unless the Pakistani military immediately lifts a curfew that has been in place continuously for the last week, an international rights group has warned.

24.05.2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has witnessed the suffering of some of the 300,000 people uprooted by the conflict between the Sri Lankan Government and Tamil rebels, during a “very sobering” visit to a displacement camp.

23.05.2009 Cherie Blair is to launch a campaign to encourage people to hold dinner parties for needy Indian children.

23.05.2009 The UN Human Rights Council should ensure that the Sri Lankan government takes immediate steps to address the crisis in the country, beginning with providing immediate, unhindered access to international aid workers and monitors, urged an international rights group.

21.05.2009 Oxfam says it has had to double its aid effort in Pakistan as the number of displaced tops 2 million, making the crisis the greatest internal displacement of people in the country's history.

20.05.2009 The International Red cross has suspended its aid operations in Sri Lanka due to restrictions placed on it by the government.

19.05.2009 A humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in as the war in Sri Lanka reaches its final hours following the reported admission of defeat by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
* Prabha killed
+ Children are bearing the brunt

17.05.2009 Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is to address parliament on Tuesday to announce victory over Tamil Tiger rebels, after the Tigers admitted that the conflict in the north of the island had reached a "bitter end".
+ When I return my country is free from LTTE terrorism, says President Mahinda Rajapaksa
+ Taming of Tamil Tigers threatens to breed fiercer creatures

15.05.2009 A growing number of traumatised, malnourished children as young as five are arriving unaccompanied at camps in Sri Lanka, separated from their parents during their escape from the violence in the north-east.

13.05.2009 The Sri Lankan authorities must give international monitors and agencies immediate access to troubled areas to help ensure that the humanitarian and human rights crisis is addressed, says an international rights group.
+ Not all Tamils are Tigers
+ Help stop the bloodbath

11.05.2009 The UN condemned a "bloodbath" in Sri Lanka's northern war zone after two days of shelling that a government doctor said killed as many as 1,000 ethnic Tamil civilians, including 106 children.
+ Tamils resume London vigil

11.05.2009 The fall of Prachanda's government has no direct connection with the controversial treatment of Gurkha veterans in the UK. But our domestic political dramas should not overshadow the significance of poverty reduction and stability in Nepal.

06.05.2009 Innovations from Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, the US and Uganda are named as finalists for this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

05.05.2009 Brad Adams draws out the two key issues. The UN system has failed whilst the Sri Lankan government appears to believe that military victory is the end rather than the beginning. Guardian

04.05.2009 The tragedy of the 2004 tsunami brought peace to Aceh after 30 years of conflict. In very similar circumstances, why did Sri Lanka take the opposite approach and abandon reconciliation?