30 Oct 2003 - Centre for Education and Communication in India is looking for those of you that will be going to the World Social Forum in India and would like to be part of an exiting international seminar on experiences in organising garment workers.

From 16-21 January the Wold Social Forum will be held in India, in the city of Mumbai. To ensure that labour is part of the Wold Social Forum, trade unions and labour support organisations have got together to jointly organise conferences, panels, seminars and workshops. The broad theme for labour in the World Social Forum 2004 has been defined as

Work and the World of labour :

One of the meetings that will be organised will be a seminar on: "Experiences in Organising Garment Workers", which will be an international seminar, which the CEC would like to jointly organise with the Clean Clothes Campaign and with other organisations. The seminar will focus on strategies employed in various places in organising garment workers and the outcomes of this.

Inportant for this seminar is that the organisation is looking for presentations from as many countries as possible. There are some countries identified as important in this, but other countries are welcome as well: Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey.

If you are interested to join this seminar as one of the presenters, please send an e-mail to both the Centre for Education and Communication, Pallavi Mansingh at: pallavi@labourfile.org and at the Clean Clothes Campaign at info@cleanclothes.org