Title: Women Workers Summit 2009
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Start Date: 2009-12-09
End Date: 2009-12-10

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In the Women Workers Summit, CAW while examining the impact and consequences of the crisis on
women workers, will look at the various policy orientations that have been offered by Labour movements,
feminist economists and other civil society movements.

These include:
a. Women’s roles in economic recovery
New ways of thinking on economic and social policies; integrating gender equality as a key principle
in any policy response on finance, trade, economic development and labour issues.
b. Investment in physical and social infrastructure
Opportunity for employment that is gender based and has equal gender representation has a
foundation for sustainable growth, and alleviation of poverty.
c. FTAs and Role of ASEAN
Prioritising women’s productive and social reproductive work, affecting both their paid work in the
formal and informal sectors of the economy and their unpaid work in the household, care and
community.
d. Reversal for the globalisation process of privatisation, regularisation for public services
Public Services that include state provisions for women, children and the poor: price control of
essential goods and social security provisions for women and the unemployed.
e. Role of ILO and UN in mobilising
Towards the ratification and application of international instruments addressing gender
discrimination—- Millennium Development Goals, the ILO Decent Work Agenda, Convention on and
open door policy on migration.
Participants
Estimated 130 participants (CAW member groups, other local and national and regional level women’s
labour and rights groups, trade unions regional organisations, UN, INGOs, speakers, facilitators, CAW exco
and Secretariat)

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