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Video SEWA  

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  • The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a trade union formed in 1972 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, to fight for the rights of women workers, who are the majority in the self-employed sector. It is both an organization and a movement, each strengthening and carrying forward the other. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media; Video SEWA]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PPRKXGB0-G

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