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Article: SAARC summit should discuss problems of home-based workers: Manmohan.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
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- January 19, 2007
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NEW DELHI, January 18 (PPI) : The SAARC nations when they meet here in April should give high priority to the concerns of home-based workers, majority of whom are women, to ensure that they benefit from regional and international trade, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here. "I would like the SAARC Summit in New Delhi to consider the Kathmandu Declaration and address the problems of home-based workers," Singh said in his inaugural address at a three-day South Asian Policy Conference on home-based workers on Thursday.The Kathmandu Declaration adopted by the UNIFEM Conference on the rights of South Asian home-based workers identifies areas of deprivation faced by ...