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		<title>Tata India – Are its Tea Estates Above the Law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international IUF fact-finding team has been denied access to an Assam plantation to investigate the recent deaths of three workers. The plantation is owned by Amalgamated Plantations in which Tata Global Beverages is the major shareholder. The 930 hectare Powai estate has one of the world&#8217;s largest tea-processing factories and employs some 1,800 permanent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusion of Foreign Maids in HK Minimum Wage Hit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A group of migrant workers in Hong Kong, including Filipinos, lambasted the Legislative Council’s (LegCo) final vote against the inclusion of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in the statutory minimum wage. “Slavery, marginalization and discrimination have now been put into law in HK. There is neither justice nor democracy in the Legislative Council’s (LegCo) vote against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAW&#8217;s Press Statement: Indonesia must enact Domestic Workers Protection Law now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate release. 10 June 2010 Indonesia must enact Domestic Workers Protection Law now Committee for Asian Women calls on the Indonesian parliament to prioritise the deliberation and enactment of the Domestic Workers Protection Bill of 2010, submitted to the House of Representatives in 2009 for the purpose of recognising legal rights of domestic workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education programme for women tempo drivers in Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women drivers got an insight into labour issues and raised key concerns at an education programme in Kathmandu, Nepal recently. The programme, organised by the women’s department of the ITF-affiliated union Nepal Yatayat Mazdoor Sangh, known as NETWON, involved around 20 women drivers of three-wheelers, known as tempo vehicles. During the sessions on 26 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tata Group Escalates Repression Against Bengal Tea Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers from a West Bengal tea plantation who participated in a protest last year against the abusive treatment of a pregnant 22 year-old tea garden worker could face prison sentences of up to 7 years, if India&#8217;s powerful Tata Group has its way. Mrs. Arti Oraon, tea plucker who collapsed after being forced to work [...]]]></description>
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