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Projects and Partners

Sri Lanka

Project Funding 2010

  • Resettlement of civil war refugees in Northern Sri Lanka, Social Economical & Environmental Developers (SEED)

  • Mine awareness in Mullaithivo District, Community Trust Fund (CTF)

  • Medical support for female workers in free trade zones, study on their working conditions, Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union (FTZGSEU)

  • Empowerment of women refugees in Mannar, Mannar Women Development Federation (MWDF)

€293,687.21 (including support from German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

A trade union in the legal vacuum of Sri Lanka’s global market factories

Integrating workers rights, health and nutrition

Katunayake Free Trade Zone is 30 kilometres from the capital Colombo. ‘Eighty per cent of those employed here are women,’ says Anton Marcus from medico’s partner the Free Trade Zone and General …

projects

 

Joint lobbying in Berlin, Brussels and Geneva

Sri Lanka Advocacy

Although the war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, the country’s Tamil-populated north is not at peace. Quite the reverse: their land is completely occupied, tens of thousands live in internment camps …

campaign

 

Background

Testing world opinion

How much "collateral damage" is permitted? Human rights work in a battlefield: a window onto the war …

 

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