Rural Workers Pay with their Lives for Defending Forests
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has expressed its deepest concern at the murder on 24 May of two environmentalists, José Cláudio Ribeiro Da Silva and Maria do Espiritu Santo Silva, in an ambush seven kilometres from their home.
New Report on Misery of Gulf Migrant Workers
A new multimedia report uncovering the human cost of the huge migrant labour force in the Gulf States of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is being launched today by the International Trade Union Confederation in Brussels.
Guatemala: Killings of Trade Union Activists Continue in Guatemala
Yet another trade union leader has been brutally murdered in Guatemala for exercising his union activities. The ITUC and its affiliated organisations in Guatemala, the CUSG, CGTG and UNSITRAGUA, have firmly condemned the assassination of Idar Joel Hernández Godoy, finance secretary of the Izabal banana workers’ union SITRABI, affiliated to the CUSG.
ITUC Calls on UN Human Rights Council to Adopt Principles on Business
The UN Human Rights Council should adopt “Guiding Principles” on business and human rights, as set out in a report from UN Special Representative John Ruggie, at its meeting beginning on Monday in Geneva.
Trade Unions at the Top of the World
A member of Nepal’s Sherpa trade union, Dorje Khatri, yesterday planted the ITUC flag on the summit of Mount Everest, symbolising the trade union commitment to protecting the planet from climate change. Sherpa Dorje and his team placed the flag at 06.30 on 26 May and are now descending from the peak.