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Topic: ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation

	ICEM - Asia-Pacific Energy Unions Urge Burma Pull-Out
		A voluminous new ICFTU file, sent to the ILO last week, documents still more cases of forced labour relating directly to the building of the gas pipeline linking Burma and Thailand and the construction of tourist infrastructure.
		Oil, gas, electric power and coal mining unions attending the ICEM Asia-Pacific Regional Energy Conference on November 20-21 in Bangkok, note with alarm the decision of the military rulers in Burma to cease all cooperation with the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
		Organising is a priority, and efforts will be made to build stronger unions and to consolidate union structures.
	www.icem.org /?id=3&doc=780 (1223 words)

	ICFTU African Regional Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ICFTU African Regional Organisation (ICFTU-AFRO) is a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, representing trade unions fom countries in Africa.
		The ICFTU-AFRO held its first congress in 1957, but the current organisation was not fully formed until 1993.
		The organisation has six main departments, handling conflict resolution, economic and social policy, education, gender and equality, HIV/AIDS, and humand and trade union rights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ICFTU_African_Regional_Organisation (160 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Oceania (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The primary use of the term Oceania is to describe a continental region (like Europe or Africa) that lies between Asia and the Americas, with Australia as the major land mass.
		Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the eastern Pacific Ocean, part of the territory of Chile, and is sometimes included in Oceania.
		Oceania is one of eight terrestrial ecozones, which constitute the major ecological regions of the planet.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Oceania (673 words)

	Asia Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
		It is also one of the most populous regions in the world, with about 60% of the world's human population living in Asia, of whom only 2% live in the northern and interior half (Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, western Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan); the other 98% live in the remaining half.
		The boundary between Asia and Europe is commonly believed to run through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea near Kara, Russia.
	216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Asia (2659 words)

	Asia Encyclopedia Article @ LittleLeagueUSA.com (Little League USA) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea.
		In East Asia, particularly in China and Japan, Confucianism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism and Shinto took shape.
		East Asia is usually thought to consist of China, Japan, Korea, but may also include Mongolia and Indochina.
	www.littleleagueusa.com /encyclopedia/Asia (2578 words)

	Demand for core standards.
		ICFTU leaders and delegates at the 17th Congress are justifiably proud of the progress made over the last few years by trade union demands to condition international trade with core labour standards.
		The ICFTU Congress is nevertheless strangely silent with respect to the heavy protectionism of the industrialised countries.
		Interviewed by Trade Union News from Finland, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and the ICFTU Asia and Pacific regional organisation APRO President Ken Douglas were quick to turn the discussion away from tariffs and other trade barriers to other equally relevant issues such as child labour, democracy, lack of transparency and so on.
	www.dagensarbete.se /home/da/home.nsf/unid/BB4CB80F4F3036F7412568BF00428F69?OpenDocument (1073 words)

	Women in Asia and the Pacific
		Asia has had a few examples of women becoming heads of state, beginning with Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960, 1970 and then again in 1994.
		International migration within the changing global and regional divisions of labor has to be looked at from a gender perspective, given the trend towards the feminization of migration in some of the more significant labor-sending countries.
		Initiatives to promote democratic functioning of the trade union organisations in such a way that women are commensurately represented in decision-making bodies, that the status of women’s committees is strengthened, that these will be chosen by women and that their position is defined in constitutional terms.
	www.isgnweb.org /pub/08-002.htm (11014 words)

	Solidar - Observer: ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
		The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), was set up in 1949 and has 225 affiliated organisations in 148 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 157 million.
		It has three major regional organisations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas.
		Membership is open to bone fide trade union organisations, that are independent of outside influence, and have a democratic structure.
	www.solidar.org /Document.asp?DocID=3624&tod=93326 (244 words)

	ICFTU Policies adopted by the 16th World Congress of the ICFTU (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ICFTU must therefore define appropriate strategies and targets in order to engage with the main international institutions and ensure that their decisions reflect a broader vision of the purpose of international cooperation and coordination than that proposed in the corporate agenda of liberalization and so-called financial stability.
		The reputation and image of the ICFTU and trade unionism will be greatly enhanced if internationally successful campaigns on issues that are of worldwide concern are seen by workers to have had direct benefit to their daily life.
		One of the major tasks of the ICFTU is to respond in a timely and appropriate manner on behalf of workers and their unions to ensure that increasingly influential international standards reflect a broader agenda than the narrow interests of international organizations representing business and employers.
	www.chasque.apc.org /frontpage/omc/areas/clau.zzz/icftu.zzz/polici.zzz.html (18919 words)

	Human Rights at Work - ACTRAV's Monthly Newsletter
		Jobless youth in Asia and the Pacific make up over 50 per cent, or 33 million young people, of the global figure of the 66 million young men and women who are unemployed.
		Youth unemployment in Asia and the Pacific was the key topic of a three-day tripartite regional meeting held in Bangkok on February 27-March 1st.
		What the region needs are innovative education programs that train youth in the skills demanded by the labour market, ILO officials argued during the opening of session of the meeting.
	www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu /public/english/dialogue/actrav/new/newsletter/feb02.htm (4107 words)

	The ICFTU and Dialogue
		This is not the place to go into a comprehensive analysis of ICFTU policy with respect to China, which has been in the main consistent with the principles declared in its own constitution.
		The report appears to confuse the difference between an organisation where workers organise themselves to act in their own interest, and some other type of organisation where management or the state organise workers in order to prevent them from acting in their own interest.
		Many will see the increasing influence of the ACFTU on organisations such as ICFTU-APRO as justification of the policies of their leadership and its willingness to serve as a tool of both the Chinese Communist Party and the government.
	www.global-labour.org /the_icftu_and_dialogue.htm (1720 words)

	Indian National Trade Union Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress.
		It was founded May 3, 1947, and is affiliated with the ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation.
		This article related to an Indian trade union is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_National_Trade_Union_Congress (86 words)

	Asia-Pacific Committee
		On 8-9 October 2004 some 20 parties and organisations from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond gathered in Phnom Penh for a meeting of the Socialist International Asia-Pacific Committee, the first SI gathering in Cambodia, which was hosted by the Cambodian People’s Party.
		The strengthening of democratic governance at global, regional and national levels with mechanisms to ensure fairness and social justice, sustainable development and a more effective rule of law was emphasised to achieve a form of globalisation which benefits and promotes the well-being of all the people of this region of the world.
		This means deepening the work of establishing and strengthening democratic governance in Asia and the Pacific and guaranteeing respect for the human rights and freedoms of all women and men.
	www.socialistinternational.org /6Meetings/Asia-Pac/Oct04/Phnompenh-e.html (1834 words)

	IFWEA: What is IFWEA?
		There was agreement to establish an ‘International Federation of Labour Organisations concerned with Workers’ Education’, but sadly the initiative stalled, almost certainly as a consequence of the retreat of labour with the onset of economic depression and the progressive rise of fascism and militarism in Europe and beyond.
		The first of the regional bodies was soon established for Europe, to be followed within three years by regional operations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.
		The Global Network organises education programmes for workers on the effects of international trade policies and government and employer actions on workers’ rights; builds transnational coalitions between unions, NGOs, and broader labour and social movements; and engages with governments, international institutions and transnational corporations to advance workers’ rights in the global economy.
	www.ifwea.org /ifwea_short.html (1958 words)

	ICFTU OnLine - February 3, 2006\| 21st Century Labor Union \| IAMAW
		At the time, the ICFTU had engaged in a campaign to step up pressure on the government to drop these accusations.
		Whilst welcoming these releases, the ICFTU nonetheless remains highly concerned over the deterioration in trade union rights and fundamental freedoms in Cambodia, particularly freedom of expression.
		In light of the situation, the ICFTU will continue to press the Cambodian authorities to ensure full respect for trade union rights.
	www.goiam.org /content.cfm?cID=6276 (450 words)

	UNI : Global Unions condemns the ruling against KCTU leader Dan Byhung-ho
		Brussels 18 March 2002 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU is calling for the immediate release of the Korean Congress of Trade Union (KCTU) President, Dan Byung-ho, who was sentenced today to 2 years imprisonment under Korean laws which are in clear contravention of internationally recognized standards on trade union rights.
		At the 18 March trial before the Seoul Court of First Instance, relating in the most part to his role in the KCTU co-ordination of a June 2001 general strike, Dan Byung-ho was found guilty on all 5 charges laid against him and in 15 of the 16 cases presented by the Prosecutor's Office.
		Korea's restrictions on the right to organise and to conduct collective bargaining and other trade union activities, including strikes, stand in breach of ILO conventions on freedom of association, the right to organise and to collective bargaining (n° 87 and 98).
	www.union-network.org /uniindep.nsf/15fe68ee3d642a14c1256bbb004e1c7d/222f7976272b0684c1256b810031c5f3?OpenDocument (451 words)

	5.3. APLN Statement to the 2003 APEC Leaders’ Meeting
		APEC Leaders have a responsibility to govern economic co-operation in their region so as to contribute in a real sense to social progress in the region as well as in the rest of the world.
		The ICFTU Asia Pacific Labour Network (ICFTU/APLN) was established in 1995 to support and promote the work of trade unions of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) region in their dialogue with governments, business and other groups involved in the APEC process.
		Trade unions, representing the workers of the APEC region, are able to bring a uniquely valuable perspective to the wide-ranging examination of policies needed to support workers in a period of rapid change.
	training.itcilo.it /actrav/library/english/apec/053.htm (4976 words)

	Annual Meeting - NGOs - Singapore - ADB.org
		ICFTU-APRO, a regional agency of the ICFTU, promotes cooperation among trade unions in Asia and the Pacific so that the workers they represent will have greater bargaining power and be able to use their resources to greater advantage.
		ICFTU seeks to bring about a just welfare society with a higher standard of living.
		ICFTU has sought to protect the interests of workers globally, while its Asian and Pacific Regional Organization is doing the same for the Asian-Pacific region.
	www.adb.org /AnnualMeeting/2002/NGOs/SIN.asp (332 words)

	ICFTU Online - September 6, 2005\| 21st Century Labor Union \| IAMAW
		Brussels, 6 September 2005 (ICFTU OnLine): A meeting of international trade union leaders from the ICFTU, the World Confederation of Labour, the respective regional organisations of the two international bodies, as well as the European Trade Union Confederation was held on 2 and 3 September.
		On September 2 and 3, the General Secretaries of the respective regional organisations met in Brussels with the leading executive officers of both world trade union organisations within the framework of the development of this new world organisation.
		For the ICFTU, AFRO (from Africa), APRO (from Asia and the Pacific) ORIT (from the Americas); For the WCL, BATU (from Asia), CLAT (from Latin America and the Caribbean) ODSTA (from Africa)
	www.goiam.org /content.cfm?cID=5452 (414 words)

	Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asean like the WTO (World Trade Organisation) will be seen as an organisation intended to benefit the big business only," he said.
		He said ICFTU was conscious of the impact of globalisation on workers, especially in the Asia and Pacific region, where wages and working conditions were deteriorating.
		He said the ICFTU was aware that these challenges could not be tackled by any country on an individual basis.
	www.bernama.com /bernama/v3/printable.php?id=162426 (433 words)

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		It is very important for me to have a global understanding and awareness about the UN, ILO, ICFTU and ITS structures, looking at the future because so many countries in the Pacific area becoming independent countries have lost a lot in terms of rights and democracy.
		Organise training sessions on UN-ILO-ICFTU-ITS (in French for men and women for the French speaking countries and in English for the English speaking countries).
		Organise the same course for Women Trade-Union Leaders at the ILO Training Centre, Turin, in other official languages: French, Spanish.
	www.itcilo.it /actrav/english/calendar/2001/A9_2671/work/work/Worksplan/Action_Plan_TAHITI.doc (950 words)

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		PSI's member organisation in Aceh is the PLN Union, formed by workers of the state-run power plant.
		A teacher, interviewed by Arunasalam P., Regional Representative of the International Metalworkers' Federation, explained that she is waiting in the refugee camp for the return of her husband and three children who have been missing since 26 December.
		An orphan sat alone in a corner of a refugee camp, which was temporarily housed in a school building.lunteer trainees teach in a makeshift primary school in a refugee camp.
	www.ei-ie.org /tsunami/en/mission.htm (1227 words)

	Docs.Rage.Net: /faq/new-zealand-faq (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their problem, like that of other tiny Pacific nations, is a lack of population and resources.
		Pacific Island and Asian languages may be heard in cities.
		As in similar countries, the process of immigration was changed, from a system of regional quotas to a points system.
	docs.rage.net /faq/new-zealand-faq (13963 words)

	ICFTU Online
		The International Labour Organisation's Convention 87 which grants workers the right to organise themselves into trade unions, provides international recognition of trade union rights, yet almost one third of the world’s countries (61 out of a total of 190) have refused to ratify it.
		This is a staggering number, says the ICFTU, considering that the Convention, which was adopted in 1948 is the one on which all other union rights are based.
		In the Asia and Pacific, affiliates and friendly organisations of the ICFTU - Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation are celebrating a Trade Union Rights Week from December 7 - 13, with activities in Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Fiji, Australia and Japan.
	www.icftu.org /www/english/pr/1997/eprol319-971210-dd.html (543 words)

	::ITGLWF::
		TWARO is the Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation of the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) which groups together the free and democratic trade unions of textile, garment, shoe and leather workers in Asia and the Pacific.
		To secure the cooperation of textile, garment, shoe and leather workers organisations in Asia and the Pacific and to foster consciousness of fellowship among all workers in the trades, without distinction of nationality, race, sex, religious denomination, creed or sect.
		With regard to the special projects organised by TWARO they are financed by voluntary contributions from its affiliates (TWARO Solidarity Fund) and external funding organisations such as FES, LO/TCO Sweden and Japan ILO Association.
	www.itglwf.org /Focuspage.aspx?issue=15&langue=2 (875 words)

	Cyber Picket Line: International Trade Union Organisations
		ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions The largest international centre.
		The FUTINAL is a regional union organisation which involves tyre and rubber workers from 9 Latin American states.
		TURN European Trade Union Regional Network TURN is a network of trade union organisations which are involved in job creation and vocational projects with, and for, unemployed people.
	www.cf.ac.uk /socsi/union/inter.htm (874 words)

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