On 14th March 2007, Nandigram witnessed a massacre. A very large police force completely cordoned off the area and blocked all entry and exit points from the villages, and proceeded to violently evict the people. The result was indiscriminate killings, and grievous injury to a large number of local people. We strongly condemn the […]
2007
2007
Click on the links below to access NTUI position papers 8 Hour Work Day and Minimum Wage Campaign Contract labour in Globalised World Resolution for a people’s Foreign Policy Gender Equality and Trade Unions Joint Memorandum on Nandigram Note on Special Economic Zones Survey of Contract Labour in Karnataka Handbill on Industrialisation, Land Acquisition […]
“A People’s Foreign Policy of India”: Resolution
Conference on People’s Foreign Policy 7-8 December 2006, Mumbai Following two days of discussions at the Conference on People’s Foreign Policy on 7-8 December 2006 in Mumbai attended by delegates from trade unions, social movements, resistance movements, students organisations, women’s organisations from Bangladesh, India, Lebanon, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka and regions of […]
Special Economic Zones
The Government of India introduced the policy to set up Special Economic Zones in April 2000 “… with a view to provide an internationally competitive and hassle free environment for exports.” Freeing capital from the regulations of the state is the primary objective of this endeavour. The legislation could only be enacted in 2006 amidst […]