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Women to agitate against globalisation
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The organisation to observe International Women's Day as a day of struggle
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HYDERABAD:
The Andhra Pradesh Progressive Organisation of Women (POW) has announced that the International Women's Day (March 8) would be observed as a day of struggle that would mark the launch of POW's agitation against globalisation that affected women's rights and their means of livelihood.
The decision to launch an agitation was taken at POW's State conference that ended in Visakhapatnam recently, where G. Sarojini, V. Sandhya and G. Jhansi were elected as honorary president, president and general secretary, respectively.
At a press conference here on Tuesday, president V. Sandhya and general secretary G. Jhansi said that other resolutions adopted include the demand to implement National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in all drought-hit mandals, , equal wage for equal work, enforcement of minimum wages in all sectors and steps to check growing violence against women .
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