Media Release ASEAN’s Response to Global Crises Must Prioritise Women The Committee for Asian Women (CAW) is calling ASEAN governments to recognise the labour market disadvantage facing women and to consider DECENT WORK targets for women. The governments should include migrant and informal workers in the labour protection system, as well as invest in social [...]

The Committee for Asian Women, Thai Labour Campaign and Triumph (International) Labour Union Thailand staged a protest in front of the UN building in Bangkok on the International Day of Peace, 21st September 2009. The public action aims at raising awareness on women workers’ situation and struggle in conflict and suppression. It was participated by [...]

The main agenda of the conference was to bring the voices of working women and men to public fora and initiate a dialogue with government, labour friendly organizations and labour activists on the pressures generated by the financial crisis on the manufacturing and production sector and its consequences. The conference provided a shared platform for [...]

25-27 August 2009 Jakarta, Indonesia Organised by Jala PRT and CAW More than 50 domestic workers groups and supporters from 10 districts gathered in Bogor, Indonesia to participate in a national training on advocacy organized by JALA PRT (National Network of Domestic Workers Advocacy) and supported by CAW. Representatives of the Asian Domestic Workers Network [...]

CAW member groups in Thailand, local Thai labour organisations, trade unions and CAW co-organised a public event and marched from the Thai parliament house to the government house on May Day 2009. The public event was participated by more than 500 workers, trade unionists and labour activists. In the event, the Thai groups raised 7 [...]

29 April 2009 CAW and Thai Labour Solidarity Committee jointly organised a conference on Wage Security and Workers’ Rights in Rattanakossin-Royal Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand on the 29th of April 2009.  The conference raised discussion on wage security in the time of financial crisis, country wage profile and wage demands of labour groups in Thailand, India and Indonesia, and [...]

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20-22 February 2009 CAW jointly organised two workshops in the APF to raise women workers’ voice in the social movement. Workshop I: Critical Views on the ASEAN-EU FTA: Main Areas of Concern and Campaigning Opportunities (co-organised with FTA Watch Thailand, EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network, and Service Centre for Development Cooperation)  Click here to download workshop I [...]

Regional Conference Exacerbating Vulnerabilities: Understanding the Impact of Trade Agreements on Women Workers Date: October 15-16, 2008 Location: New Delhi, India Organised by: Committee for Asian Women (CAW) and Centre for Education and Communication (CEC) Downloads: Press Statement Declaration Media report of the conference Picture Gallery

The regional conference “Domestic Workers are Workers: Decent Work for All” was successfully held on August 26-27, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand by forty five participants from eight Asian countries and one from South Africa. As part of the conference’s campaign launching, the participants joined labour activists, NGO supporters and domestic workers in Thailand in a [...]