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Madurai Women’s Development Resource Centre

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : India, Solidarity, Spring 2009
The UnionAID project works closely with the Madurai Women’s Development Resource Centre (also supported by NZAID through Christian World Service) which has achieved remarkable success over many years in supporting  and inspiring Dalit women to organize collectively and to form ...Read More »

The union is making a difference to our lives

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : India, Solidarity, Spring 2009
My name is Kaleeswari and I live with my family in a small village on the lower hills of Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu in South India. There are 32 families in our village and we are all poor and own no ...Read More »

Dalit workers get organised

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : India, Solidarity, Spring 2009
More than 30,000 Dalit workers in Tamil Nadu have formed local unions over the past 2 years as part of the UnionAID project with the Tamil Nadu Labour Union. 164 local unions work together under TLU leadership and 10,600 of ...Read More »

Violations of core labour standards in India – ITUC Report

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by admin }
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"Despite efforts and programmes to address child labour, bonded labour and the position of Dalits, large numbers of people remain in deplorable situations. More than 1.3 million Dalits are estimated to be still employed as manual scavengers. Dalits comprise the ...Read More »