ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation

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ICFTU-APRO
ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation
Founded 1951
Members 30 million in 28 countries[1]
Country Asia and Pacific Region
Affiliation ICFTU
Key people Sharan Burrow, president
Noriyuki Suzuki, general secretary
Website www.icftu-apro.org/

The ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation (ICFTU-APRO) is a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions representing trade unions from countries in Asia and Oceania. It has 40 affiliated organisations in 28 countries, claiming a membership of 30 million people.

The ICFTU-APRO was founded in 1951 as the Asian Regional Organisation, and changed to its current name in 1984. On its website, the organisation describes its aims thus:

The organisation seeks to bring about a just, welfare society with a higher standard of living. It believes that promoting a higher wage policy and the dignity and status of workers through a stronger trade union movement will help achieve this. Equipping workers with the skills to fight for fundamental rights, including the setting up of bona fide trade unions is perhaps its major undertaking. Under its current structure, ICFTU-APRO tackles education, information, social and economic policy, women, human and trade union rights and youth among its areas of work.

The following national organisations are affiliated to ICFTU-APRO (ordered by country):

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