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World Day of Social Justice: Unemployment, Poverty Hit One-Third of World’s Workforce
The international trade union movement is using the UN World Day of Social Justice today to highlight growing global unemployment and poverty, with (...) read more
Governments Urged to Act on UN Jobs and Social Protection Call
The ITUC has welcomed calls by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for governments to act on job creation and universal social protection in a report (...) read more
UN Rio+20 Summit Must Deliver on Jobs, Poverty and the Environment
With precarious jobs, unemployment and inequalities rising around the world, the international labour movement today formally tabled its proposals to (...) read more
Extortion by Al-Shabaab in Somalia: 3253 Telecommunications Workers Deprived of a Living
On 2 October, the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab banned the operations of three telecom companies, paralysing the telecommunications system in (...) read moreDocuments » Poverty
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Spotlight interview with Pia Stalpaert (Belgium)
In June 2011, Pia Stalpaert, president of CSC Alimentation et Services, the food and services union affiliated to the confederation of Christian trade (...) read more
Spotlight interview with Anthony Jones (ITUC/TUCA - Haiti)
"The decent work agenda is a primary need when we talk about reconstruction" read more
Spotlight Interview with Antonio Cruciani, the resident representative of the ILO working on the issue of reconstruction.
We have to change the system. This would be the labour revolution read more
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