Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

_Alex Bloom — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:52:29 -0400

Managing Organization: SEWA

Activity URL:

http://www.sewa.org

Activity Description: Registered in 1972, SEWA is a trade union that unites the labor movement, the cooperative movement and the women’s movement. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. The women members earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They are unsalaried, unprotected, and constitute a large portion of India's labor force.

SEWA’s main goals are 1. to organise women workers for full work security, including income, health, food and social security 2. to promote individual and collective autonomy and self-reliance, both economically and in terms of decision-making ability 3. strengthen women’s bargaining power, build their capacities, and offer them new alternatives.

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Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)