English Version - What has been the impact of China’s accession to the WTO in 2001? Most discussions have focused on the positive impacts from a business perspective. Yet in the period of 1996-2002, a total of 40 million workers were sacked because of restructuring and privatization, and probably 10 million of them were directly related to China’s accession to WTO.

AMRC and ANROAV have been named one of the 50 most influential leaders in the Environmental Health and Safety Magazine. Here is the excerpt from the article:

7 November 2008
November 2007 was the “Black November” for everyone who supports labour rights. The Shenzhen Dagongzhe Migrant Worker Centre (hereafter DGZ Centre) suffered from a series of violent attacks: numerous men forced their way into DGZ Centre, smashed the facility inside and threatened the staff. Later on 20th November, the legal person (holder) of DGZ Centre, Huang Qingnan, was attacked by two assailants, which caused his left shank to be disabled permanently. As groups that promote labour rights and growth of civil organizations, we strongly condemn these violent, illegal actions against labour groups! On 3rd December, we submitted a statement endorsed by 76 Hong Kong and International labour groups to the Government of Shenzhen City, during a protest in front of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong, and urgently appealed for an intensive investigation into these violent attacks as soon as possible.

The Annual conference of ANROAV took place in Manila at Hotel Pearl Garden, Malate on 27-28th September 2008. The conference had around 100 participants from all over Asia, Canada, Australia, USA and France.

Asian Labour Update

ISSN 1815-9389
Issue No.65
October-December 2007
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