SARTUC in collaboration with South Asia Gender Platform (SAGP) and FNV Mondiaal, Netherlands, conducted two days of “Regional Capacity Building on Organising, Advocacy, Negotiation, Campaigning and Leadership Skills in Trade Unions in South Asia”, on 12-13 December 2023, at Kathmandu, Nepal (Hotel Barahi Kathmandu, Thamel, Kathmandu).
Objectives
- To enhance leadership skills, and provide the tools and knowledge for effective advocacy, including strengthening the negotiation techniques for women trade union leaders from SARTUC affiliates;
- To capacitate the organizing skills of the SARTUC affiliates leaders, importantly, women trade union leaders to encourage more women participation in the trade union movement;
- To interact and discuss the role of women as well as transpersons in the trade union movement in South Asia;
- To plan and launch gender equality campaigns for workers and unions;
- To update and form a new SARTUC women’s committee for the inclusion of women in the regional trade union platform.
SARTUC has formed its Women’s Committee and received a new Chair of the SARTUC Women’s Committee, as well as Vice-Chair of the SARTUC Women’s Committee. SARTUC believes -strengthening women's leadership, advocacy, negotiation, and organising skills is essential to address gender inequality and advancing women's rights in the region. It is thus the time that SARTUC’s women’s committee will take the lead in the region to advance the organising, advocacy, negotiation, campaigns, and leadership skills of women to reach the grassroots level, especially in the informal economy and domestic work in the world of work. Additionally, this will eventually increase women’s participation in trade unions through the leadership skills of members of the SARTUC Women’s Committee.
SARTUC Women’s Committee
Ms. Dur-E-Shawar Shiraj (PWF, Pakistan), Chair
Ms. Mousumi Nishat Shimul (BMSF, Bangladesh), Vice-Chair
Ms. Sushila Ghimire (NTUC, Nepal), Member
Ms. Chandrani Panditha (SLNSS, Sri Lanka), Member
Ms. Fathimath Zimna (MTUC, Maldives), Member
India Member
Afghanistan Member