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		<title>Asian Rural Women&#8217;s Coalition celebrates 100 years of IWD</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE 1 April 2011 Â 100 years of Womenâ€™s Resistance: Rights, Empowerment and Liberatio (Chennai, India) Rallying behind the theme â€ś100 years of Womenâ€™s Resistance: Rights, Empowerment, Liberation,â€ť around 40 women rural women leaders, representatives and activists from eight Asian countries gathered for a 2-day conference here on March 29 and 30.Â Â In a keynote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nowera Nuddy Tea Workers Journey to Kolkata to Demand Justice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers on the Nowera Nuddy tea estate in northern West Bengal, India and their Progressive Tea Workers Union (PTWU) are as determined as ever to win justice. A contingent of workers, all PTWU members, travelled the 650 kilometers from their plantation to Kolkata on February 4 to press their demands in a rally outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tata Group tea workers determined to claim their rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Â Â Â  Over 550 tea workers, two-thirds of them women, rallied on the Nowera Nuddy tea estate in West Bengal, India on January 16 to launch a new stage in their campaign for their rights after management failed to respond to a January 15 deadline to meet their long-standing demands.Â Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate is owned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berry Pickers had Invalid Contract: Swedish Union</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The employment agreement covering 290 Vietnamese berry pickers who worked in Swedish fields last summer, dozens of whom still remain in Europe, should never have been approved, according to a Swedish union. Berry pickers arrested for locking up bosses (11 Aug 10) Hungry berry pickers shoot birds for food (2 Aug 10) Vietnamese workers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report on Tea Worker Deaths Details Extensive Rights Violations at Tata-controlled Estate in Assam, India</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report commissioned by the IUF and releasedÂ onÂ 1st OctoberÂ details extensive human rights violations at the Tata-controlled Powai Tea Estate in Assam, India. In Cold Blood: Death By Poison, Death By Bullets examines the death in May this year of 25 year-old Powai worker Gopal Tanti, who collapsed at work while spraying pesticides. Mr Tanti was [...]]]></description>
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