South Asia labour moot from Sept 1

Published August 29, 2003

LAHORE, Aug 28; More than 200 delegates will attend the two-day South Asia Labour Conference being held at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Karachi, from September 1.

Issues like effects of globalization on workers of developing countries, regional cooperation, trade union movement, role of media for peace and development and trading on equality basis will be discussed at the conference being organized by the South Asian Labour Forum.

More than 30 trade union delegates from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal will reach here from India by Dosti Bus on Friday evening. Trade union leaders and workers will receive them at the Faletti’s.

A reception will be hosted in honour of the visiting delegates at the Bakhtiar Labour Hall on Saturday.

They will leave for Karachi the same day. —Reporter

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