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Colombo: Sub Regional Seminar on Strengthening Union Capacity in order to Achieve Decent Work

The role of employment in crisis recovery

Emergency relief aid is the priority in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe, but recovering jobs and livelihoods are an important part of reconstruction. Through labour-intensive infrastructure rehabilitation projects and other kinds of job...

Value Chain Development in Solid Waste Management Stakeholder Consultation & Validation Workshop 19th August 2011, Colombo

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

Judicial Colloquium on Human Trafficking & Forced Labour

A Judicial Colloquium on Human Trafficking & Forced Labour was held from 7-9th August with the participation of 65 Judges. Human Trafficking is gaining increased global attention as a transnational organized crime. The profits generated from...

Vavuniya North Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society to support more than 2,000 paddy farmers

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society (MPCS) of Vavuniya North have joined forces to re-tool a major rice milling operation damaged during the years of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 28th April 2011

Speech by Mr. Donglin Li, ILO Country Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

ILO Country Director Mr Donglin Li Conferred with Pakistan’s Highest Civilian Award

Pakistan President H.E. Mr Asif Ali Zardari on the occasion of National Day conferred the SITARA-I-QUAID-I-AZAM Civil Award to Mr Donglin Li, former Country Director of International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Country Office for Pakistan, for his...

National Green Jobs Conference

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministries of Labour and Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion, is organizing a two-day National Conference on Green Jobs from 24-25 January 2011.

ILO Enterprise Projects for Women in Vavuniya North

ILO LEED Project introduces TREE methodology for economic empowerment of conflict-affected women in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

Changing a young man's life

By R. Sivapragasam, Senior Training Specialist, ILO Office in Colombo. (Batticaloa, Sri Lanka) Many young people in Sri Lanka have to drop out of school to support their families. 17-year-old Thangavel Nadesaseelan, from a remote village in...

Youth unemployment a challenge in Asia and the Pacific

Young Asian women and men are increasingly finding it difficult to get jobs. This article looks at the situation in Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. By Kee Beom Kim, Labour Economist, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the...

Conference on Zero Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016 Child Sharing experiences to achieve the goal 21-23 June 2010 Colombo

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

How Much Does Business Really Bring to HIV Response? Quantifying In-Kind and Financial Contributions of the Private Sector

Physical disability no barrier to young Sri Lankan entrepreneur

By Henrik Vistisen & Gihan Thalgodapitiya, Youth Employment Project, (ILO/Japan), Sri Lanka (Kegalle, Sri Lanka) Puspakumara turns on the light and positions his wheelchair in front of a workbench at his electronics repair shop. Television...

High-Level Seminar on Eight Fundamental International Labour Conventions Male, Republic of Maldives 8 – 10 March 2010

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

New ILO report on labour and social trends in Sri Lanka, 2009

By Steven Kapsos, ILO Geneva. On December 8 2009, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower, Central Bank and Department of Census and Statistics released a joint report on “Labour and Social Trends in Sri Lanka 2009", which was...

Taking forward the National Labour Migration Policy for Sri Lanka

The Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare has taken steps to carry forward the National Labour Migration Policy by establishing a High Level Advisory Committee consisting of key Ministries, Recruitment Industry, Trade Unions and civil...

Signing Ceremony V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, India and the National Institute of Labour Studies, Sri Lanka

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

Sub-Regional Workshop on Negotiating Decent Work in the Age of Globalization in South Asia and China Ahungalla Sri Lanka 26-27 October 2009

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

Opening remarks at the Training of Trainers Workshop on the Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development Programme

By Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka