Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 10:15 to Friday, December 19, 2014 - 10:15
Where:
BRAC Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The meeting will be among the partners of AMRC and Asian Roundtable on Social Protection (AROSP)
in South Asia. The objectives of the meeting include:
To provide a platform for sharing the developments and models in the past year in terms of organising and bargaining of marginalised workers for social protection;
To consolidate the network in South Asia on labour organising and social protection;
Monday, October 26, 2015 - 01:00 to Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 08:00
Where:
Bangkok, Thailand
This conference will bring together AMRC's partners who have been working on organising, empowering and building leadership among women workers in Indonesia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, and the Philippines. The participation of grassroots women leaders will be prioritised, and women activists from other countries in Asia will also be invited to participate and share strategies, lessons and perspectives on gender and labour rights issues, as well as occupational safety and health, and social protection for marginalised women workers.
On 10th July this year, the Cambodian parliament will pass laws which will grossly stifle the rights of ngos and trade unions.As attached are the critical analysis of both the laws;
1. Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organizations (to be passed on 10 July 2015)
2. Trade Union Law (the final draft has not been revealed since last year)
Below are posters that are available for download.
The posters highlight the fact that women workers, although they must juggle the roles of provider, mother, wife and so many more, can also be effective leaders. As leaders in their communities, associations, or unions, they can represent and advocate for the needs and demands of other women, which are often ignored when women's voices are marginalised.
Unity Statement of the National Oil Palm Conference
Davao City, Philippines
The palm oil industry is promoted as a “sunshine industry” now among the Philippine government’s priorities. Palm oil is one of the most highly-traded commodities at the global level. Oil palm is touted as a “tree of peace” with its promises of livelihood and development, food security, poverty alleviation and economic stability.
Since the early 2000s, clusters of rare acute interstitial pneumonitis of children were noticed every spring in Korea. The prognosis was quite poor and many of them died. In 2011 April, 7 pregnant women were hospitalized for acute severe respiratory disease of similar nature, and half of them died.
This report describes workers’ strategies of organising and collective bargaining in the informal sector in India. It discusses the organising experiences of the most marginalised workers in society – waste workers, sex workers, domestic workers, rural workers and kite making workers. These are people who were always on the margins of Indian polity and society due to their class, caste and gender.