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Welcome to the site dedicated to Women Workers. Committee for Asian Women (CAW) is an Asian Regional organisation by women, for women and of women. CAW celebrated her Silver Jubilee year in 2002. For the last 25 years, CAW has been taking up issues of women workers in Asia.
We Demand Employment, Equal Labour Standards and Participation in Decision Making for All Women Workers
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Existing Laws and Regulations Protecting The Rights of Informal Workers: Malaysian Context
5-Jul-2004
1. Recession and its Effects on Workers, Loss of Jobs and the Informal Sector
During the last recession in 1985, over 30,000 women workers (and men) were thrown out of work.
In Penang alone, the electronics and textile industries retrenched about 12,000 workers.
Similar trends appeared in 1997, where a total nuber of 15,000 workers were retrenched while in the first two months of 1998, 10,402 had lost their jobs. Of this figure, 7,270 were from the manufacturing, 1,749 from the construction sector and 1,215 from the services sector.
Often, among the contributing factors to the economic recession was the falling demand for our agriculture produce, i.e., rubber, oilpalm and tin.
There was also a decline in the production of microchips as chips produced in other countries were cheaper and more advanced.
Thousand of factory workers especially women workers who form over 80 percent of production workers were out of job.
Studies showed that it took these women over two years to find another job.
Among those who managed to find new jobs, many were paid far below their last earned wages.
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Legal Policies and Situation of Women in the Informal Sector in the Philippines
5-Jul-2004
By Josephine Parilla and Phoebe O. Cabanilla
- Country Situationer
- Defining the Philippine Informal Sector
As a developing country, the Philippines has been grappling with its precarious employment situation and unemployment issues. Aggravating the situation is the massive dislocation of its workforce at an even larger scale as a result of globalization and more critically, the Asian financial crisis.
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Local Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong: A Vulnerable and Dispensable Lot?
5-Jul-2004
By Sally Chun in cooperation with the Hong Kong Domestic Workers General Union
"I used to earn a lot working in garment factories before, and I felt good about myself. But now, I have to work as a domestic helper, being ordered around and yet earning so little. I feel really bad."
"I don
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Report on an Analysis of the Informal Economy in Phnom Penh June 2003
5-Jul-2004
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Urban Sector Group in collaboration withUrban Management Program-Asian Institute of Technology (UMP-AIT) and International Labour Organization
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The Informal Economy And Women Workers - The Case of South Korea
5-Jul-2004
Park, Jin Young (Korean Women Workers Associations United)
Choi, Sang Rim (Korean Women
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Homeworkers In Thailand:A Study on Their Legal Problems
5-Jul-2004
By Mr. Chalit Meesit and Homenet Thailand
Introduction
The competition in the global market has resulted in new techniques to reduce the cost of production. These techniques are designed to ensure same level of profit for industrialists. Consequently, many have adopted methods of decentralization of production through subcontracting and outsourcing. For many decades, the government of Thailand has promoted self-employment and encouraged employment through subcontracting in the rural areas of Thailand to prevent the migration of people to urban areas. What has been the outcome of such policies? How have the rural population benefited from such policies are seldom questioned. However, there have been reports about problems among small entrepreneurs and homeworkers. Reports about accidents, sickness and cheating have not been recorded or documented in detail by any organizations so far.
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CAW CONDEMNS CURBS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INHUMANE TREATMENT OF ACTIVISTS
1-Mar-2004
Committee for Asian Women, an Asian regional network condemns the arrest of 17 activists (13 men and 4 women) on 28th February in front of the Police Headquarters, Bukit Aman Kuala Lumpur. Those arrested were Eric Paulsen, Latheefa Koya, Elizabeth Wong, Sivarasa Rasiah, Fahmi Reza, Tian Chua, Fahmi Fadzil, Beth Yap, Manickavasagam, Sanusi Abdullah, Mohd Salleh, Yusof Mohamad, Lee Siew Hwa, Ronnie Liu, Xavier Jeyakumar, Azwan Din Hamzah and Manimaran. Those arrested are members of Parti Keadilan Rakyat, DAP, NGOs and civilians.
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Good News from Seoul Women's Trade Union in Korea.
1-Mar-2004
Finally, we won the case to achieve the right of organization for the unemployed. Today(27.Feb.2004), the Supreme Court of Korea ruled that the unemployed have the rights to organize. The Supreme Court supported the rule of lower court.
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URGENT APPEAL - RESPECT RULE OF LAW, RELEASE POLITICAL DETAINEES - PAKISTAN
2-Mar-2004
Mr. Javed Hashmi, a leader of the opposition party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has been detained since 29 October 2003, for
allegedly defaming the Pakistan army; Mr. Hashmi denies this. He was denied access to a lawyer or to meet his family and was only formally charged with treason on 24 January 2004. His on-going trial, a closed-door hearing, started on 7 February. Local sources reported that he was tortured in detention, that the conduct of the police and the manner of his detention violated his legal rights.It was also reported that he has not been provided medical facilities which doctors had advised. Human rights organizations and political parties believe that the case is politically-motivated and are demanding his release.
According to Human Rights Watch, since the military coup that brought
President Pervez Musharraf to power in 1999, one of the most pressing
human rights abuses concerns political opponents. Political detentions are becoming a part of the political culture in the country.
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International Womans Day in Bangkok
9-Mar-2004
The march 8 celebration spearheaded by the women workers unity group was attended by about 1,000 women workers from different sectors including garment workers, state enterprise, home-based workers, sex workers etc.
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8th March - Saluting Women , Celebrating Womanhood
9-Mar-2004
Committee for Asian Women salutes all women who have been fighting against patriarchy, injustice, marginalization, capitalism. On this day we strengthen our resolve to continue fighting for women workers- as women and as workers
Happy and Empowering International Women
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Protest Against the Anti-Democratic Measures of the Government of Nepal
5-Sep-2003
We protest against the anti-democratic measures of the Government of Nepal. Peaceful protests and other ways of expression are the basic right of every citizen in every country. Bans against such basic rights are the beginnings of an authoritarian state.
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HerStory
17-Jun-2003
In late seventies, the Asian countries opened its doors to the multinational corporations for export oriented industries. These foreign investors came mainly from United States of America, Germany and Japan in search of cheap and readily available source of labor. Thousands of young female labors were brought into the waged work of the "global assembly lines", unaware of the exploitative nature of these industries.
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Thursday, July 24 2008
Women's Lives In A Balance
Report of South Asian Regional Workshop on Legal and Organizing Strategies of Women Workers' Organizations
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Workshop report on Strategies to Combat Sexual Harassment at Work
Report of discussion on sexual harassment at work.
Organised by Mekong Sub Regional Steering Committee and CAW
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Women Workers in Informal Economy in Asia
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