Self-Employed Women’s Association of India

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membership-based organization non-governmental organization social movement trade union

The Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is a pioneering trade union and movement that organizes and empowers poor, self-employed women workers across the informal sector to secure their rights, livelihoods, and social protection.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Self-Employed Women’s Association	3
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India canonical	2
SEWA Academy	1
SEWA Bank	1
SEWA Bharat	1
SEWA cooperatives	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2242033 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
Context triple: [Ela Bhatt, founded, Self-Employed Women’s Association of India]

A. All India Mahila Congress
All India Mahila Congress is the women’s wing of the Indian National Congress, focusing on mobilizing and representing women in Indian politics and public life.
B. Equality League of Self-Supporting Women
The Equality League of Self-Supporting Women was a New York–based suffrage organization that mobilized wage-earning and working-class women into the fight for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century.
C. Rashtra Sevika Samiti
Rashtra Sevika Samiti is a Hindu nationalist women’s organization in India that serves as the female counterpart to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
D. National Council of Women
The National Council of Women was the official mass women’s organization in communist Romania, aligned with and controlled by the Romanian Communist Party to promote state policies on gender, labor, and social life.
E. Centre of Indian Trade Unions
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is a major left-oriented national trade union federation in India, historically aligned with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and active in organizing and advocating for workers’ rights across various sectors.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
Target entity description: The Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is a pioneering trade union and movement that organizes and empowers poor, self-employed women workers across the informal sector to secure their rights, livelihoods, and social protection.

A. All India Mahila Congress
All India Mahila Congress is the women’s wing of the Indian National Congress, focusing on mobilizing and representing women in Indian politics and public life.
B. Equality League of Self-Supporting Women
The Equality League of Self-Supporting Women was a New York–based suffrage organization that mobilized wage-earning and working-class women into the fight for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century.
C. Rashtra Sevika Samiti
Rashtra Sevika Samiti is a Hindu nationalist women’s organization in India that serves as the female counterpart to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
D. National Council of Women
The National Council of Women was the official mass women’s organization in communist Romania, aligned with and controlled by the Romanian Communist Party to promote state policies on gender, labor, and social life.
E. Centre of Indian Trade Unions
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is a major left-oriented national trade union federation in India, historically aligned with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and active in organizing and advocating for workers’ rights across various sectors.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	membership-based organization ⓘ non-governmental organization ⓘ social movement ⓘ trade union ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
fieldOfWork	cooperative development ⓘ informal sector ⓘ labour rights ⓘ microfinance ⓘ poverty alleviation ⓘ social security ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ
focusesOn	access to credit for poor women ⓘ capacity building and training for women workers ⓘ childcare services for working women ⓘ collective bargaining for informal workers ⓘ health insurance for informal workers ⓘ
foundedAs	women’s wing of Textile Labour Association ⓘ
foundedBy	Ela Bhatt ⓘ
foundingLocation	Ahmedabad ⓘ
hasPart	SEWA Academy ⓘ linked to: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India SEWA Bank ⓘ linked to: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India SEWA Bharat ⓘ linked to: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India SEWA cooperatives ⓘ linked to: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
headquartersLocation	Ahmedabad ⓘ Gujarat ⓘ India ⓘ
inception	1972 ⓘ
keyPerson	Ela Bhatt ⓘ Reema Nanavaty ⓘ
legalForm	registered trade union ⓘ
memberOf	International Trade Union Confederation ⓘ International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations ⓘ
motto	self-reliance ⓘ
movementSlogan	organize, struggle, develop ⓘ struggle and development ⓘ
notableAward	ILO Decent Work recognition ⓘ linked to: Decent Work Agenda Right Livelihood Award ⓘ
operatesIn	multiple Indian states ⓘ
purpose	empowerment of poor women in the informal economy ⓘ improving livelihoods of women workers ⓘ organizing self-employed women workers ⓘ providing social protection to informal women workers ⓘ securing workers’ rights ⓘ
unionRepresents	agricultural labourers ⓘ construction workers ⓘ domestic workers ⓘ home-based workers ⓘ self-employed women ⓘ small producers ⓘ street vendors ⓘ waste pickers ⓘ

How these facts were elicited