President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday appealed to the leaders of South Asia to divert the colossal defense expenditure towards development, research and technology to reduce poverty and suffering in the region. Addressing the final sessions of the three-day South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN), President Rajapaksa stressed that Sri Lanka’s humanitarian initiatives had enabled the government [...]
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Defence budget cut to serve poor: President Mahinda Rajapaksa
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2011
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IRSP Participation in SACOSAN IV Colombo Sri Lanka
Posted by admin on April 14th, 2011
IRSP Participated in SACOSAN IV held at Colombo Sri Lanka. IRSP was represented by Executive Director Syed Shah Nasir Khisro and Manager M&E Mr. Altaf Ur Rahman.
Declaration of the Pre-SACOSAN IV Consultation Meetings of CSOs
Posted by admin on April 12th, 2011
Our call for Urgent Action to End the Sanitation Crisis in South Asia 2nd April 2011 We are civil society organisations, community leaders and grassroots activists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Buthan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We collected the voices of thousands of women, men and children in our countries and gathered at the [...]
South Asians call for equitable sanitation programmes
Posted by admin on April 12th, 2011
COLOMBO: Civil society members at an international consultative meeting, just ahead of the fourth South Asian Conference, on Sanitation (SACOSAN), in Sri Lanka, called upon their respective governments to hammer out viably equitable and inclusive sanitation and hygiene programmes.
IRSP Participating in SACOSAN IV Colombo Sri lanka
Posted by admin on April 5th, 2011
SANITATION; a means to enhance quality of life: The South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN), a government led biennial convention usually take place on rotational basis in each country, provides platform for dialogue and influence created by the governments of South Asian Countries to revisit the progress made by them in the area of Sanitation. [...]
