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Rinju Rasaily has
a PhD from Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her thesis entitled
“Labour and Health in Tea Plantations: A case study of Phuguri
Tea Estate, Darjeeling” examined the social aetiology of
health and working conditions of tea plantation labour. Her
areas of research include labour and health with a focus on
gender issues both in the formal and informal sectors. She has
more than ten years of research experience on labour in the
tea plantation sector. She has also taken keen interest in
studying labour history and issues around social exclusion of
the labouring poor along the markers of caste, ethnicity and
gender. She has conducted independent studies on
‘Interrelationship between Gender and Malaria among the Rural
Poor in Jharkhand’, published by Achuta Menon Centre for
Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for
Medical Science and Technology, Trivandrum, 2005 and ‘Housing
and Land Rights for Workers in Closed and Abandoned Tea
Gardens in North Bengal’, 2008. She has coordinated a national
level study on ‘Status of Closed and Abandoned Tea Gardens in
India’ with senior researchers from Kerala, West Bengal and
Tamil Nadu, 2006 as well.
She has
demonstrated experience in training, campaign, advocacy and
networking with various stakeholders like trade unions,
academics and international organisations working on labour
rights and human rights. She has been a resource person for
training local level trade union leaders and other worker’s
representatives on issues like health and labour rights. She
has coordinated international conferences at Sri Lanka (2005)
and Kenya (2006) with trade unions and labour support
organisations on issues of labour rights and living wages in
the plantation sector. She has also coordinated International
Consultation of Trade Unions and other stakeholders on South
Asia Campaign on the Adoption and Ratification of ILO
Convention on Labour Standards for Fish Workers at Negembo,
Sri Lanka; South Asian level meeting on “Exacerbating
Vulnerabilities: Impact of Trade Agreements on Women Workers”
in New Delhi, with Committee for Asian Women (CAW), Bangkok as
part of her previous assignments. She has supervised two
internship programmes at Centre for Education and
Communication (CEC), New Delhi. Besides, she has provided
consultancy services for organisations working on health and
issues of social exclusion and has been instrumental in
developing a Virtual Resource Centre on Discrimination and
Exclusions in South Asia. She has recently been an Organising
Committee Member of the International Conference on
Envisioning the New Nepal: Dynamics of Caste, Identity and
Inclusion of Dalits, Kathmandu, June 2010. Her publications
include articles and book reviews on gender, labour and
identity in Journals and News Magazines.
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