President says ILO to address issues on impact of terrorism

(April 28, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa Tuesday said that the International Labour organisation should address issues related to impact on job losses and income losses due to terrorism.

President Rajapaksa was speaking at a ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the ILO held at the Presidential Secretariat.

“The fisherman deprived of his harvest from the sea, the cultivator, deprived of his crop from the land, the community, driven out through ethnic cleansing, the plight of the Internally Displaced. All of this is a new agenda that the ILO will have to address as it enters its tenth decade, and moves towards celebrating its century of service and progress”, the President said.

“Terrorism is widespread the world over today. It affects the rich, developed and the poor developing world. It is a threat that did not exist at the time the ILO was launched with such great hope 90 years ago. But, today this is also a threat to the conditions of work of the people that the ILO will have to take note of. Its commitment to social justice for the working people must put the ILO against all forms of terror, not only in the workplace”.

-Sri Lanka Guardian