Archive for the ‘India’ Category:

What your donations are funding in India

{ Posted on Mar 25 2010 by UnionAID }
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Categories : India, Solidarity, Autumn 2010
The UnionAID project in Tamil Nadu is a really good example of life-changing benefits for a relatively modest investment. A recent evaluation of the project has confirmed that, not only is the project enabling dalit workers to achieve impressive monetary gains, ...Read More »

Project gains in human rights

{ Posted on Mar 25 2010 by UnionAID }
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Categories : India, Solidarity, Autumn 2010
Gender equality and women’s empowerment Improved women’s access to entitlements under government and union agreements, strong participation and leadership by women within the union, a reported reduction in domestic violence from 25-15% increasing education of girls in Dalit and Tribal families. Reduction in discrimination against ...Read More »

Union cards free cremation workers from police intimidation

{ Posted on Mar 25 2010 by UnionAID }
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Categories : India, Solidarity, Autumn 2010
Union identity cards have put a stop to police harassment of cremation workers, according to Allahasami, the Cremation Workers’ Union President. Since joining the Tamil Nadu Labour Union (TNLU) these illiterate workers asked for – and designed themselves - a ...Read More »

Comment, Solidarity Autumn 2010

{ Posted on Mar 25 2010 by UnionAID }
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Categories : Burma, India, Solidarity, Autumn 2010
Late last year I took part in a participatory evaluation of our UnionAID projects in South India and on the Thai-Burma border. I spent a week with each project and, after meetings and visits with many participating workers, it’s great to ...Read More »

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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Categories : India
"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 »