About IRENE

IRENE is set up to strengthen international workers solidarity. By organising international seminars and workshops it gives attention to new areas of work and provides new inputs in existing work. IRENEs activities stimulate the exchange between organisations in the South and the North and within Europe (also Eastern Europe). 

The core question of IRENEs work is: How are workers (women and men), in different regions in the world, affected by international restructuring in the industrial and services sector. The outcome of IRENEs work is published in the bulletin "NEWS from IRENE".

Women Workers - IRENE is not a women's only organisation. But there is a strong agreement to elaborate all issues worked on specifically on "women/women workers".

THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME FROM 2007 ONWARDS:

• Corporate Social Responsibility - corporate accountability and international regulatory frameworks for transnational corporations. IRENE is member of OECD Watch and coordinator of the capacity building programme of OECD Watch.
  IRENE is member of the steering group of ECCJ, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice.
  FOR MOST UP TO DATE IRENE ACTIVITIES ON CSR:
  http://www.oecdwatch.org
  http://www.corporatejustice.org
• Workers' rights, workers' ability to organise and to gain power over their lives are at the core of the work on workers in the informal economy. In IRENE there is a strong agreement to elaborate all issues specifically on women workers.
  In the seminars of 2005 and 2006 focussed onDOMESTIC WORKERS The building of an international network 'Respect and Rights for Domestic Workers is the next step in the work of IRENE. A task carried out in co-operation with and under responsibility of the Global Union IUF
  Reports and material on domestic work -> on this web under 'workers in the informal economy'.
  The network now has its own website http://www.domesticworkerrights.org