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- Areas of work
- Child Labour
- Employment promotion
- Equality and discrimination
- Green jobs
- Informal economy
- International labour standards
- Labour market governance and working conditions
- Labour migration
- Safety and health at work
- Skills and employability
- Social security
- Workers and Employers Organizations
- Decent Work in Sri Lanka
- What we do
- Information resources
Equality and discrimination resources
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Working with men to address gender based violence in the workplace
19 March 2012
Information note on the training programme with MAS
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Working with men to address gender-based violence in the workplace
19 March 2012
This training programme is an attempt to address the issue by taking men on a self-reflective journey of understanding their actions, behavior patterns and motivations through a gender lens and thereby moving towards becoming active in not only preventing gender-based violence in the work place but also thinking and acting in more gender equal ways in the domestic sphere.
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Action Against Gender-Based Violence at Work - A workshop for employers
07 December 2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO), in partnership with the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) is organizing the above workshop under the Joint United Nations Programme on Prevention of and Response to Gender-Based Violence in Sri Lanka. Participants of this workshop will be exposed to an overview on gender, prevention of gender-based violence and sexual harassment at work and the corresponding legal framework in Sri Lanka. The workshop will also provide a platform to share experiences, best practices and information with individuals and/or organizations with interests in action against GBV and identify appropriate strategies for collaboration. Speakers and participants for the workshop will be drawn from the private sector, employers' organizations and international agencies, all working on this important agenda.
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Joint UN Programme on Prevention of and Response to Gender-based Violence in Sri Lanka
08 September 2011
ILO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF and WHO, supported by the UN Resident Coordinator and the Chairperson of the UN Gender Theme Group in Sri Lanka – invests their combined expertise and resources through this Project to reduce Gender-Based Violence through multi-sectoral interventions, and the effective implementation of laws and policies in keeping with international standards.
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Promotion of decent work for plantation and rural youth in Sri Lanka
30 December 2010
The project contributes to poverty reduction by helping rural youth enter the labour market. By developing the capacity of local staff and institutions, it also improves labour market and employment services. In addition, it works closely with plantation companies to promote strategic corporate sustainability, factory improvements and a good work-life balance.
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Sri Lanka’s working poor
30 December 2010
This paper presents a profile of Sri Lanka's working poor in terms of stock and characteristics; attributes associated with the probability of being working poor, and the reasons why the employed poor earn too little to overcome poverty.
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Promoting employment-intensive growth in Sri Lanka: policy analysis of the manufacturing and service sectors
30 December 2010
This paper examines the employment effect of growth in manufacturing sector industries in Sri Lanka covering a period of 17 years from 1990.
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Sub-Regional Workshop on Negotiating Decent Work in the Age of Globalization in South Asia and China Ahungalla Sri Lanka 26-27 October 2009
26 October 2009
By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka
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FCCISL - Key note address on youth and women entrepreneurship
30 July 2009
By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka