EI

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• EIs Strategies and Programmes
• on Promotion of Women Workers Rights

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1) Womens Network Formation

• South East Asia Womens Network
• (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,
  Philippines)
• South Asia Womens Network
• (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka)
• South Pacific Womens Network
• (South Pacific Countries)

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2) Education and Awareness Building

• Workshops on Violence Against Women and Legal
  Rights of Women
• Gender Sensitivity Trainings
• Basic and Advanced Unionism Seminars
• Leadership Seminars
• Trafficking of Women and Girls
• Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• Human Rights and Advocacy
• HIV-AIDS

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3) Capacity- Building/ Empowerment

• Union Skills Development Workshops
• Trainers Trainings
• Income Generating Courses
• Enhancement of Professional Competence
• Formation of Womens Committees
• Research
• Network Formation
• Cooperative Formation
• Publication of Training Manuals Modules
• Para-legal Workshops
• Evaluation and Planning Meeting

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4) Campaigns

• Education for All (emphasis on girl-child)
• Sexual Harassment and Violence Against Women
• ILO Convention No. 183 on Maternity Protection
  Benefits

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5) Structural and Participation Quota

• Gender-balance in elective posts
• Policy of 30 minimum women participation in all
  union activities training programmes with an
  aim of at least 50
• Union Policies on Gender
• Policy Resolutions
• Affirmative Action-Research with goals of 33
  women in General Councils, ExCo, Office Bearers,
  etc. enshrined in the union Constitutions