News on forced labour
April 2019
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Sri Lanka renews commitment to combat forced labour
11 April 2019
Sri Lanka has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention becoming the 31st ILO Member State to do so.
December 2018
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International Migrants Day 2018: Street Theatre to Raise Awareness on Human Trafficking
The ILO in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), organised a pop-up street theatre performance in honour of International Migrants day on 18 December 2018.
November 2017
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Free from debt and bonded labour in Sri Lanka’s fisheries
01 November 2017
ILO's project helps free fishermen from debt bondage and supports livelihoods.
September 2011
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Residential Programme on the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in Sri Lanka for State Counsel
The application of international conventions including human rights instruments and ILO conventions are important tools in the development of national legislation criminal legislation on the prevention of human trafficking. Cognizant of the importance of applying such standards in the prosecution of such cases, the International Labour Organization (ILO) together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) organized a Residential Training Programme for the State Prosecutors of the Attorney General’s Department in Sri Lanka.
August 2011
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Judicial Colloquium on Human Trafficking and Forced Labour for Magistrates
The programme will include sessions on international labour standards and conventions relating to human trafficking and forced labour, domestic law and amendments on the subject, prosecutions, victims and psychological impact etc. This programme is being developed in consultation with the Ministry of Justice and the Judges Training Institute.
May 2011
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Sri Lanka: Residential training programme on trafficking and forced labour for police officers
16 May 2011
The programme will take place on 24 and 25 May in Colombo. It will include sessions on investigation methods, interrogation of victims and witnessess, forced labour and human trafficking, leading in of evidence, treatment of victims etc.
April 2009
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Maid in Lebanon
15 April 2009
Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find there is sometimes not what they expected. A film directed by Carol Mansour and funded by Caritas Sweden, the Netherlands Embassy in Beirut and the ILO depicts the gamble these women take when they decide to leave their families and go to work in Lebanon.