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International Women's day : Three-year campaign to unionise women Brussels - To mark the occasion of International Women's Day on 8 March, Global Unions, which groups the ICFTU and Global Union Federations, is launching a new initiative as part of its special three-year campaign to unionise women. In the coming year, the campaign "Unions for Women, Women for Unions" will focus on women working in the informal economy and export processing zones. Informal work, an ever-growing trend affecting developing and developed nations alike, is often characterised by zero protection and desperate vulnerability. S uffering from discrimination and all too often excluded from the official labour market, women are over-represented in the informal economy. It is for this reason that the ICFTU has decided to make organising women working in the informal economy a priority on 8 March. The aim is to enable women in the informal economy to assert their rights and to become the driving force behind unionisation. At the very heart of the campaign is the defence of the principle of solidarity and the future of the trade union movement as a whole. |
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