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Stabbing of Labour Rights Activist
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:49 am | ITUC
Brussels, 15 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): After 14 months of delay, the hearing for suspects in the stabbing of Huang Qingnan, a workers' rights activist from Shenzhen, will take place on 16 January. More >>
Growing World-Wide Unemployment
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 9:39 am | ITUC
Brussels, 14 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): An 80-strong high-level delegation of trade union representations from around the world is meeting with the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, ... More >>
Gaza: Cease-Fire
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:20 am | ITUC
Brussels, 12 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The refusal of Israel and Hamas to accept the UN Security Council Resolution calling for a cease-fire is totally unacceptable, and will cost the lives of yet more innocent civilians, as Israel further escalates ... More >>
First Delivery of Trade Union Aid Arrives
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:41 am | ITUC
Brussels, 9 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has welcomed the call of the UN Security Council for an immediate and durable cease-fire in Gaza as the first plane-load of trade union humanitarian assistance was unloaded in Egypt for distribution in ... More >>
Release of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun On Bail
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 11:48 am | ITUC
Brussels, 6 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC welcomes the Cambodian Supreme Court decision on December 31, 2008 to release Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun on bail and send the case back to the Court of Appeals to be retried. More >>
ITUC Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire
Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 10:50 am | ITUC
With the death and injury toll in the conflict between Israel and Hamas continuing to rise, the ITUC again calls for an immediate cease-fire and a major aid effort to bring much-needed assistance to the people of Gaza. More >>
Swiss Government Must Protect its Workers
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:44 am | ITUC
Brussels, 15 December 2008: A new ITUC report on core labour standards in Switzerland and Liechtenstein issued today to coincide with the trade policy review at the WTO denounces the lack of adequate protection for workers in Switzerland. More >>
Notorious Rights Violations Rewarded
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 10:40 am | ITUC
The European Commission's decision to grant additional GSP (generalized system of preferences) trade benefits to sixteen countries including several with serious violations of basic workers' rights has been strongly denounced by the ITUC. More >>
Strong Outcomes at UN Climate Change Conference
Friday, 12 December 2008, 1:15 pm | ITUC
Poznań, 11 December 2008: As Ministers arrive in Poznań for the final negotiations of the two-week annual global conference on climate change, trade unions are stepping up their efforts to get just transition, green jobs, trade union consultation and ... More >>
DOHA Outcome Not Bold Enough
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 10:38 am | ITUC
Doha, 2 December 2008 (ITUC OnLine): Responding to the outcome of the Doha Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, the members of the Decent Work, Decent Life Alliance* (the International Trade Union Confederation, SOLIDAR ... More >>
ITUC Condemns India Terror Attacks
Saturday, 29 November 2008, 11:52 am | ITUC
Brussels, 27 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has condemned this week's terrorist attacks in the Indian financial centre Mumbai as despicable atrocities, aimed at innocent civilians from India and abroad. More than 100 people are known to have ... More >>
Trade Unions Demand an Ambitious Climate Agreement
Friday, 28 November 2008, 11:20 am | ITUC
Brussels, 27 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): On the eve of major international climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). More >>
Trade Unionists Threatened and Intimidated
Friday, 28 November 2008, 11:18 am | ITUC
Brussels, 26 November 2008: Guatemala continues to be the scene of union bashing, threats and intimidation, on this occasion in the municipality of Zacapa. The ITUC has strongly condemned these trade union rights violations. More >>
Iran: Imminent Execution of Farzad Kamangar
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:50 am | ITUC
Brussels, 26 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): Farzad Kamangar, the Iranian Kurdish teacher and social worker sentenced to death on, according to his lawyer, "absolutely zero evidence", could be hanged on Wednesday 26 More >>
Unions Mobilize on Anti-Violence Against Women Day
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:54 am | ITUC
International Day on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, ITUC affiliates in several countries, including Ghana, Sierra Leone, Congo, Japan, Columbia and Great Britain, are organizing activities to mobilize against the trivialization and impunity ... More >>
'Serious Violations of Workers Rights'
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 10:59 am | ITUC
Serious violations of workers 'rights, particularly in export processing zones, are highlighted in a new ITUC report on the Dominican Republic issued today to coincide with the country's trade policy review at the World Trade Organisation. More >>
Unions Develop Strategies Against Forced Labour
Saturday, 22 November 2008, 12:05 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 21 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): An International Conference on Forced Labour and Human Trafficking, organised by the ITUC, its Pan-European Regional Council (PERC), the European Trade Union Confederation and the Greek General Confederation of Labour ... More >>
G20 Declaration Insufficient But Better ILO News
Saturday, 22 November 2008, 12:02 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 21 November 2008 (ITUC OnLine): The first meeting of G20 leaders on the world economic crisis, while setting a road map that has the potential to create a new financial regulatory agenda, has nevertheless fallen short on some major areas ... More >>
Onslaught Against Trade Unions Claimed 91 Lives
Friday, 21 November 2008, 9:41 am | ITUC
The publication of this year's ITUC Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights Violations reveals an appalling record of union-busting, anti-union laws, intimidation and violence against workers' representatives in 2007. More >>
World's Trade Unions Recovery and Reform Plan
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 11:50 am | ITUC
Brussels, 13 November (ITUC OnLine): Trade union leaders from the G20 countries will put forward a comprehensive plan to turn around the global economy, in meetings with world leaders in Washington DC on the eve of the financial crisis summit hosted by ... More >>
