ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation


The ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation was a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, representing trade unions from countries in Asia and Oceania.

History

The federation was founded in May 1951 at a meeting in Karachi, as the Asian Regional Organisation. It was initially based in Calcutta, but moved to New Delhi in 1956, and then Singapore in 1988. In 1984 it changed its name to the ICFTU-Asia Pacific Regional Organisation. In 2007, following the merger of the ICFTU and the World Confederation of Labour, the organisation merged with the WCL's Brotherhood of Asian Trade Unions, to form the ITUC Regional Organisation for Asia and Pacific.
In 2006, the organisation described its aims thus:

Affiliates

The following national organisations were affiliated to ICFTU-APRO in 2006: