| ITUC Asia Pacific | |
| Location Country: | Asia and Pacific Region |
| Affiliation: | ICFTU |
| Members: | 30 million in 28 countries[1] |
| Full Name: | ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation |
| Founded: | 1951 |
| Dissolved: | 2007 |
| Merged: | ITUC Regional Organisation for Asia and Pacific |
| Headquarters: | NTUC Centre, One Marina Boulevard, Singapore |
The ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation (APRO) was a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), representing trade unions from countries in Asia and Oceania.
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.[2] In 2007, following the merger of the ICFTU and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL), 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:
The organisation seeks to bring about a just, welfare society with a higher standard of living. It believes that promoting a higher wage policy and the dignity and status of workers through a stronger trade union movement will help achieve this. Equipping workers with the skills to fight for fundamental rights, including the setting up of bona fide trade unions is perhaps its major undertaking. Under its current structure, ICFTU-APRO tackles education, information, social and economic policy, women, human and trade union rights and youth among its areas of work.
The following national organisations were affiliated to ICFTU-APRO in 2006:
1951: Dhyan Mungat
1956: Govardhan Mapara
1966: V. S. Mathur
1988: Takashi Izumi
2000: Noriyuki Suzuki
1953: Robert Edward Jayatilaka
1955: Jose J. Hernandez
1960: P. P. Narayanan
1965: Haruo Wada
1968: Minoru Takita
1969: P. P. Narayanan
1976: Devan Nair
1982: Tadanobu Usami
1988: Gopeshwar
1994: Ken Douglas
2000: Sharan Burrow
2005: Govindasamy Rajasekaran[3]