The Joint Seminar of WFTU and ACFTU kicked off today, March 28th 2017, in Beijing, China. 17 women trade-unionists from 17 English-Speaking countries of Africa and Asia are taking part.

During the opening of the seminar , AN Jianhua, Director-General of the ACFTU International Relations Department took the floor, followed by Anda Anastasaki, General Coordinator of the WFTU central offices on behalf of WFTU, Helen Tibeer Gbafan, Gender Desk Officer of National Union of Hotels and Personal Services Workers-Nigeria on behalf of African women trade-unionists and Purna Joshi, Deputy General secretary of CONEP-Nepal on behalf of Asian women trade-unionists. This initiative is the 9th of its kind.