The year 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the ILO’s gender equality action plan, and the end of a year-long global ILO campaign on gender equality and the world of work. One of the themes of the campaign was “Social dialogue at work: voices and choices for women and men”. ILO Online reports from India where the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) has helped women and men to make their voices heard since 1971.
Nothing about Ela Bhatt gives any hint of the vital role that she has played in the lives of millions of people – or of the place she occupies on the world stage.
Her home, in the teeming western Indian city of Ahmedabad, is a modest bungalow noticeably smaller than the villas that surround it.
There is no evidence of her stack of national and international awards, the way she works shoulder-to-shoulder with global luminaries such as Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan, trying to find ways of easing human suffering.
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