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Newsletter of the Trade Union
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Policies Rio+20: No Social Justice Without
Environmental Protection
The
global trade union movement is bitterly disappointed at the Declaration of
the Rio+20 Summit, a declaration that lacks the concrete measures necessary
now to end senseless environmental destruction, drive investment into the
green economy to create jobs and reduce the alarming growth in inequity with
the guarantee of social protection for the most vulnerable people. Policies After the MDGs - UN post-2015 development
framework process gathers speed
In 2015
Millennium Development Goals will expire. The United Nations has launched a
process of elaborating the post-2015 development framework. The new framework
is likely to be a new set of development goals, but their focus, scope or
accountability mechanisms are still to be defined. ITUC brings in the trade
union perspective to the process through a number of activities. Policies Global
Partnership out of starting blocks on the wrong foot
What
could and should have been the official launch of the Busan
Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) turned to be
a “business as usual” event that passed by the demands of the partner
countries and the civil society. 6 months after Busan, and after an
intense work in the Post Busan Interim Group, the
OECD-DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness was called to conclude business
and put in place the GPEDC. Policies The European
Parliament calls on Member States and the European Commission to strengthen
development education across Europe.
After
an intense 4 months campaign, the European Parliament adopts the written
declaration on development education and global active citizenship. News from the network Progress measurement in development cooperation
- a growing priority for trade unions
TUDCN
continues working on trade union development effectiveness by organising on
11-13 June a seminar on ‘Outcome and impact measurement in Trade Union
development cooperation’. The event took place in Elewijt
centre, Belgium, and was attended by a wide range of organisations from
Northern and Southern national centres, SSOs and Global Union Federations. News from the network Video introduction to TUDEP
TUDEP
is a learning tool designed to support trade unions worldwide in the
application of the effectiveness principles in their everyday development
cooperation practice. In this short video you will learn more about the
TUDEP. News from the network Organising
workers in the EPZ
On June
11th 2012 the ITUC and ACTRAV held a meeting at the ILO to launch several
publications on trade union experiences in the export processing zones (EPZ).
The research papers have been prepared in coordination with ITUC Africa and
TUCA as well as trade unions in the countries concerned. The publications
focus on the strategies for organising and defending the rights of the
workers in the EPZ. News from the network Development
NGOs: too close to the powerful, too far from the powerless?
Nicola
Banks and David Hulme, at the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of
Manchester, have published a paper which argues that development NGOs need to
change direction if they are to play a positive role in poverty reduction. At
present, they argue, they are too concentrated on service delivery and
advocacy on behalf of poor people. What they need to do is commit to
empowerment of the poor, so that they can create their own solutions. This
critique of the essentially philanthropist, top-down approach to development
echoes what many in the trade union movement have been saying – especially
those in the south. News from the network In 2011, sustainable development made its way
onto the international trade union cooperation agenda
The Institut Belleville conducted ten projects across every
continent during 2011, devoting 331,341 euros to them. For the first time,
sustainable development became part of its solidarity activities directed at
developing and emerging countries. News from the network Support for trade union service capabilities - CNT-
Affiliated Public Service Union to Offer Child Care
On 25
July, the USO’s NGO for development SOTERMUN (Spain) and the CNT-affiliated
national public workers’ union, UNTE-SN, of Paraguay, will be opening a
nursery in the capital Asunción with places for 120 children aged 0 to 5
years. News from the network Dutch CBA also supports Moldovan youth
The
150,000 cleaners in the Netherlands finally have a new collective agreement.
After long and difficult negotiations, focused also on dignity and working
circumstances, a well-developed package has been achieved. That’s good news
for them, but also for young people in Moldova, the poorest country of
Europe. In their collective agreement the Dutch cleaners included an
agreement to support young -potential- colleagues on the other side of
Europe. News from the network Complete our
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this survey and get a free Olympic torch bookmark to help
the Playfair 2012 campaign assess what impact they've had in
raising awareness and in providing ways for you to influence major brands and
the Olympic movement to respect workers' rights. News from the platforms Final Meeting of WP-EFF Came to A Close: Civil Society Question Inclusiveness of the
Process
As
negotiations for a Post-Busan governance structure
and monitoring framework were finalized last Friday in Paris, civil society
expressed deep concern over the process undertaken by the Working Party on
Aid Effectiveness (WP-Eff), the multi-stakeholder forum responsible for
leading global processes that produced the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA),
Paris Declaration (PD) and the Busan Partnership
for Effective Development Co-operation (BPd).
In a statement read by BetterAid Co-Chairs, Antonio
Tujan and Mayra Moro-Coco, civil society expressed doubt over the consensus
reached after Day 1 especially after suggestions raised by the various groups
- such as civil society, NEPAD and CARICOM - were rejected, “it is not a
Global Partnership interested in generating consensus and compromise among
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Issue Focus UN Development Cooperation Forum Policies News from the network TUDCN seminar on impact measurement Institut Belleville: Sustainable
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August 2012 TUDCN seminar on South-South Cooperation Florianopolis,
Brazil 25-26
September 2012 TUDCN seminar on post-2015 Istanbul,
Turkey 15
October 2012 TUDCN WG EU Brussels,
Belgium 16-17
October 2012 European Development Days Brussels,
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