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World Day for Safety and Health - 28th April

“Safety and health in the use of chemicals at work“ – World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2014equality”

World Day for Safety and Health - 28th April 2014

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

International Women’s Day 2014 - 8 March

Message from ILO Director-General : “We join our efforts with all who are striving for gender equality”

ILO Asisstant Director General & Regional Director for Aisa and the Pacific Visits Colombo

The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto, visited Sri Lanka from 5 to 6 February 2014, at the invitation of the Ministry of Labour and Labour...

Launch of the Pre-departure Training Guides, Safe Labour Migration Information Package and the Code of Ethical Conduct for Recruitment...

These publications were developed under the Project on Promoting Decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of migrant workers: Ensuring effective implementation of the National Labour Migration Policy funded by the Swiss Agency...

Launch of 3 sets of documents for International Migrants Day 2013

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

National Workshop on Dispute Settlement and Social Dialogue Strategy for the Public Sector

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

National Workshop on Reform and Development of Public Enterprises

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

National Safety Conference on Prevention of Occupational Diseases & Injuries

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Enterprise Presentations - Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE)

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Validation Workshop on National Human Resources and Employment Policy for Sri Lanka

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

New ILO Report finds Global Number of Child Labourers Falls

A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has found that the global number of child labourers has declined by one third since 2000, with the largest absolute decline in the Asia Pacific region.

Workshop on Poverty reduction through Tourism

By Shafinaz Hassendeen, OIC, ILO

ILO to Launch Toolkit on Poverty Reduction through Tourism

ILO will launch its toolkit on poverty reduction through tourism at the Chef’s Guild awards ceremony to be held at the BMICH, Colombo. The launch will be followed by a workshop carried out by ILO in collaboration with the Chefs Guild of Sri Lanka to...

Ratnapura - a Child Labour Free Zone by 2016!

The District Secretary and the Administration of Ratnapura, assisted by the Ministry of Labour and Labour Relations, with technical and financial support from the ILO are embarking on a journey that will make the district officially free of Child...

COOP Champions

Mohamed Farzan, training facilitator LED tools and trainer, My.COOP

COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future...

ILO and EFC launch a new programme for SME’s for Sustaining Competitive & Responsible Enterprises in Sri Lanka.

In May, the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) partnered with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to launch SCORE (Sustaining Competitive & Responsible Enterprises), a course to support SME’s on how to forge an enterprise culture of...

ILO Country Director pays courtesy call on Maldivian President Dr. Mohamed Waheed

ILO Country Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Mr. Donglin Li, paid a courtesy call on Maldivian President Dr. Mohamed Waheed on 19th May at the President’s office in the capital Male.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2013

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has called for an “urgent and vigorous” global campaign to tackle the growing number of work-related diseases, which claim an estimated 2 million lives per year. The World Day for Safety and Health at Work...

World Safety Day - Prevention of Occupational Diseases and Best Practices in OSH

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives