9-10 December 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
The Women Workers Summit2009 is organised by Committee for Asian Women (CAW), a regional network of 46 member groups from 14 Asian countries.
The Summit will examine the impact and consequences of the crisis on women workers, and discuss the various policy orientations that have been offered by Labour movements, feminist economists and other civil society movements. These include:
a. Women’s roles in economic recovery
b. Investment in physical and social infrastructure
c. FTAs and Role of ASEAN
d. Reversal for the globalisation process of privatisation, regularisation for public services
e. Role of ILO and UN in mobilising
It is Estimated that there would be 130 participants in the conference, including CAW member groups, other local and national and regional level women’s labour and rights groups, trade unions regional organisations, UN, and INGOs.
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