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Projects and Partners

Sri Lanka

Project Funding 2011

• Flood aid for returnees from Kanakarayankulan, Social Economical & Environmental Developers (SEED)

• Provision of land for a centre for people with special needs, SEED

• Medical support for workers in free trade zones, Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union (FTZGSEU)

• Resettlement of internal exiles in North Sri Lanka, SEED

€ 270,718.26 (incl. support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ))

NETWORK OF THE NAMELESS

Sri Lanka: lobbying for the victims of war crimes

‘We’ve never seen anything like this here before!’ The security officer at the Palace of the Nations in Geneva is visibly upset. Together with uniformed colleagues, he has entered a meeting …

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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 …

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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 …

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