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Africa

Tunisia: Imprisoned Trade Unionists Released

2009 Survey of violations of trade union rights - Africa

Africa-EU Strategy – What Happened to Decent Work?

Burundi: Judicial Proceedings against Trade Union Leader

Core Labour Standards in Zambia: Much remains to be done

Decent Work should be at the core of the EU-Africa Strategy

Democratic Republic of Congo: Three Trade Unionists Under Arrest

Fundamental labour standards in Niger and Senegal: ITUC extremely concerned.

Gambia: Arrest and Detention of Trade Union Leaders and Journalists

Guinea: Commission of Inquiry Must Be Set Up to Investigate Brutal Repression of Demonstrators

Guinea: End Impunity Now

Guinea: ITUC welcomes lifting of ban on political and trade union activities

International Migration Day – a new report from the ITUC.

ITUC and IFJ Warn of Breaches of International Human Rights in Gambia

ITUC and IFJ Welcome Release of Journalists in Gambia

ITUC wants those responsible for the “Probo Koala” dumping of hazardous wastes identified and brought to account

Madagascar: Call for a Lasting Democratic Solution to the Political and Social Crisis

Mauritania: Call for an Urgent Return to Democracy

New ITUC Report on Core Labour Standards in Mozambique

New ITUC Report on Respect for Core Labour Standards in Morocco

Niger: Democracy Under Threat

Problems with the Economic Partnership Agreements

Southern Africa: Swaziland Worst Offender on Workers’ Rights

Spotlight Interview with Diatou Khady Cissé (SYNPICS -Senegal)

Spotlight interview with Dilé Diallo (CNGT-Guinea)

Spotlight interview with Fatou Bintou Yaffa (CNTS-Senegal)

Spotlight interview with Jan Sithole (SFTU, Swaziland)

Spotlight interview with Louisa Ait-Rached (FNTTC*- Algeria)

Spotlight interview with Mamadou Niang (CGTM-Mauritania)

Spotlight interview with Moulkheiry Sidiel Moustapha (CGTM-Mauritania)

Spotlight interview with N’diouga WADE (CNTS-Sénégal – National Confederation of Senegalese Workers)

Spotlight Interview with Nina Nyembezi (LRS- South Africa)

Spotlight interview with Vimbai Zinyama (ZCTU-Zimbabwe)

Spotlight interview with Vincent Ncongwane (SFL, Swaziland)

Spotlight on Claudine Akakpo (CSTT- Togo)

The founding Congress of ITUC Africa opened in Accra

Trade Unions call on UNCTAD XII Conference to approve an UNCTAD agenda to realise decent work and development

Zimbabwe: Alarm Over Intimidation of Witnesses to ILO Inquiry

Zimbabwe: Firearms Used Against Workers in a Mining Town

Zimbabwe: Three Trade Unionists Arrested During a Peaceful March

Zimbabwe: Trade Union President Arrested While On Tour in the Country

America

2009 Survey of violations of trade union rights - Americas

Guatemala: SITRAPETEN members assaulted and dislodged

Guatemala: Two MSICG Members Assassinated

Honduras: Arrrest Warrant Prevents Delegate Attending World Women’s Conference

Indian Workers Trafficked to US

International trade union movement demands social and labour chapter in Central America-European Union AA

New ITUC Report on Core Labour Standards in Guyana

Obama Bank Reforms: Time for All Governments to Stand Up to the Banks

Spotlight interview with Erasto Reyes (Honduras)

Spotlight Interview with Erin Harrison (Canada- CLC)

Spotlight interview with Imelda López (CGTG-Guatemala)

Spotlight interview with Marcelina Bautista (CONLACTRAHO-Mexico)

Spotlight interview with Rosane Sasse (UGT-Brazil)

TUCA Organises Continental Day of Action against the Crisis

Violence in Colombia continues

Asia and pacific

2009 Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights - Asia

APEC must redress its imbalanced agenda and give space to labour interests

APEC remains distant to citizens’ reality

Asia-Pacific Trade Unions Unify in New Regional Organisation

Australia: New Emissions Target a Step in the Right Direction

Bangladesh: Three Workers Killed During a Peaceful Protest

Burma: Five FTUB Members Released

Burma: ITUC condemns Aung San Suu Kyi Sham Trial

China: Yao Fuxin Released

Fiji: Positive Legal Developments Welcome but Democracy Still Not Re-established

Hong Kong: home to worker exploitation, repression and discrimination

International call for the release of all political prisoners in Burma

Iran: Harassment of The Haft Tapeh Union’s Lawyer

Kyrgyzstan: ITUC condemns suspension of democratically elected trade union leader

Malaysia: Major Improvements Needed in Respect for Core Labour Standards

Maldives: Trade Unions Absent From The Island Paradise

Solomon Islands Lags Behind On ILO Core Labour Standards

Spotlight interview with Cheung Lai-Ha (Hong Kong-HKCTU)

Spotlight interview with G. Rajasekaran (Malaysia – MTUC)

Spotlight Interview with Maung Maung (Burma - FTUB)

Spotlight on A. Balasubramaniam (MTUC-Malaysia)

Spotlight on Renana Jhabvala (India - SEWA)

The ITUC Urges Fijian Government to Restore Democracy

Unions demand further social progress in Asia-Europe cooperation

Baltic states

EAKL: Demonstration against the policies and actions of the Government

LBAS: For Latvia. Against injustice.

LBAS: Manifestation "For Latvia. Against Injustice"

LDF: The Trade Union Response to the Challenges of the Crisis in the Baltic: The Role of the IFIs

LPSK: The crisis in Lithuania and Baltics

Campaigning

Civil Society in Accra calls for urgent action on aid

Decent Work Essential to Effective Development Aid, Unions to Tell International Conference

Decent Work should be at the core of the EU-Africa Strategy

Key decision-makers commit to Call to Action for Decent Work, Decent Life

Millions of people stand up worldwide against poverty

Caribbean

Core labour standards in the Eastern Caribbean states

Problems with the Economic Partnership Agreements

Spotlight interview with Ida Le Blanc (Domestic Workers’ Union – Trinidad)

Central & Eastern Europe

Belarus: Condemnation of a police raid

Georgia: Government Must Lift State of Emergency Immediately and Guarantee Fundamental Rights

Spotlight Interview with Daniela Alexieva (CITUB-Bulgaria)

Spotlight interview with Roman Kravchyk (FPU-Ukraine)

Spotlight on Baiba Čadore (LIZDA – Latvia)

Spotlight with Sergejus Glovackas ( ITUC/PERC –Vilnius, Lithuania)

Central America

Costa Rica: Intimidation of trade unionists

Costa Rica: ITUC supports “No” to DR-CAFTA in referendum

Costa Rica: migrant leader arrested

End the Violence and Impunity in Guatemala

Guatemala – Pre-meditated murder of Guatemalan banana workers’ leader

Guatemala: A dysfunctional labour justice system

Guatemala: Armed Attack Against Trade Union Leader

Guatemala: Campesino leader threatened

Guatemala: SITRABI targeted

Honduras Under Siege

ITUC condemns murders of trade union leaders in Honduras

Mexico: New ITUC Report on Core labour standards

Mexico: police impunity

Panama: anti-union repression

Panama: two construction sector trade unionists murdered

Serious trade union rights violations in Costa Rica

Spotlight interview with José Escolástico Pinzón Salazar (CGTG - Guatemala)

Spotlight interview with Roberto Antonio Ruiz (FETRABACH-CST, Nicaragua)

Spotlight interview with Yannick Etienne (Batay Ouvriye - Haiti)

Transport strike in Guatemala: 1 dead, 48 arrested

East Asia

7th ASEM Summit: A step in the right direction

Beijing Olympics: IOC Called Upon to Act on Abuses in Chinese Olympics Suppliers

China Walks Out of EU-China Human Rights Event

China: Workers arrested while participating in collective protest action

China: Increasingly repressive measures used against workers in Panyu

China: Proposed new Draft Contract Law Fails to Guarantee Fundamental Rights

G8: Trade Unions Demand Action on Global Food Crisis, Jobs and Incomes, Financial Regulation and Climate Change

Global Migration Forum: Migrants Must Be Protected as Financial Crisis Hits

Hong Kong Business Lobbies Against Workers’ Rights in China

Hong Kong: Ten years on and no improvement in sight

ITUC and TUAC express opposition to current Korea-United States free trade agreement

ITUC condemns brutal stabbing of a workers’ representative in South China

ITUC denounces cadmium poisoning in Chinese battery plants

Korea: ITUC Condemns Arrest of KCTU President

Leading sports brands and unions working together globally for better working conditions

Macao, SAR: workers’ rights on hold pending new Labour Law

New ITUC report: Public workers’ rights denied in Japan

Olympics Labour Rights: IOC Must Raise its Game says PlayFair 2008

Spotlight Interview with Lee Cheuk yan (Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions - Hong Kong SAR)

Spotlight interview with Thwel Zin Toe and Khin San Htwe (Burma - Burmese Women’s Union)

Tibet: Repression must stop

Europe

2009 Survey of violations of trade union rights - Europe

Africa-EU Strategy – What Happened to Decent Work?

Albania: 2,400 Children in School Thanks to Unions

EU Commission conference paves the way to decent work

Forced Labour and migration to the UK

Founding of the PERC gives hope to European workers

Georgia-Russia Conflict a Humanitarian Tragedy and a Threat to Broader Peace and Stability

Greece: ITUC demands that justice be done after ignominious acid attack on a woman trade unionist

ITUC Welcomes European Commission’s Recommitment to Decent Work

New ITUC report: Problems of fundamental workers’ rights in the European Union

New Report on Workers’ Rights in Norway

Notorious Rights Violations Rewarded in New European Union Trade Preferences System

Problems with the Economic Partnership Agreements

Spotlight interview with Vincent Neveu (CGT - France)

Spotlight interview with Judith Ploegman, president of FNV-Jong

Spotlight interview with Mohammed Haidour (Spain - CCOO)

Spotlight interview with Sandra Viktor (LO-Sweden)

Spotlight on Constantina Kuneva (PEKOP-Greece)

Turkey: Jail sentences for trade union leaders

Unions demand further social progress in Asia-Europe cooperation

Latin America

Anti-union repression in Iran and Colombia denounced today around the world

Argentina: Huge youth march

Argentina: teacher killed during demonstration

Assassinations Continue in Colombia

Assassinations continue in Guatemala

Chile: trade union demonstration brutally repressed

Colombia: Another Trade Unionist Asassinated

Colombia: 195 Teachers Killed, No One Guilty

Colombia: Chilling threats against Lina Paola Malagón Díaz, member of the Colombian Commission of Jurists

Colombia: Damning New Evidence of Security Service Collaboration with Death Squads to Kill Unionists

Colombia: ITUC Condemns Murder of Trade Union Leader

Colombia: national and multinational companies violate workers’ rights

Colombia: no halt in murder of trade unionists and violation of trade union rights

Colombia: No reduction in assassinations and death threats

Colombia: reality defies the Colombian government’s public statements

Colombia: Several trade unionists receive death threats

Colombia: Sugar cane harvesters demand rights at work

Colombia: Trade Unions in Mourning for Two More Murdered Colleagues

Colombia’s Dubious Strategy to Push Through an FTA with the European Union

Costa Rica: Blatant Interference by Government into Trade Union Affairs

El Salvador: Union Leader Shot Dead

Forestry worker dies in clashes between police and workers

Guatemala: A dysfunctional labour justice system

Guatemala: Another Trade Union Leader Assassinated

Guatemala: President Colom to open international union Conference against Impunity, as killings continue

Guatemala: Women Trade Unionists Held Captive at Labour Ministry

International Trade Union Movement Condemns Coup in Honduras

La situacion socio laboral en la subregion andina (April 2009)

No End to Assassinations in Colombia

No end to assassinations of trade unionists in Colombia

No Let Up in the Onslaught against Colombian Trade Unionists

Peru: Adoption of new labour law fully complying with ILO standards urgently needed

Spotlight interview with Hortensia Moran (CNT – Paraguay)

Spotlight interview with Myriam Luz Triana (CGT - Colombia)

Spotlight on Alejandro Delssin and Carlos Lozantos (CTA-Argentina)

Spotlight on Antonio Jara and Mauro Posada (CGT-RA – Argentina)

Unrelenting Violence and Impunity in Guatemala

VIDEO - Spotlight on Carlos, teamster in Lima (FETTRAMAP - Peru)

Violations of Core Labour Standards in Brazil

Violence in Colombia continues

Middle East

2009 Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights - Middle East

Anti-union repression in Iran and Colombia denounced today around the world

Egypt: Court Decision Restores Registration of Workers’ Rights Organisation

Egypt: labour NGO Shut Down by Administrative Decision

Gaza: Cease-Fire Refusal Reckless and Totally Unacceptable

Gaza: End of Fighting Opens Opportunity for Real Peace and Justice

Gaza: ITUC Calls for Immediate End to Violence, Deplores Killings of Civilians

Gaza: ITUC Deplores Descent into Violence

Gaza: ITUC Welcomes UN Resolution, First Delivery of Trade Union Aid Arrives

Gaza: New ITUC Calls for Immediate End to Violence, Deplores Killings of Civilians

Iran One Year On: Osanloo Still Jailed, Workers Still Oppressed

Iran: Anti union repression continues

Iran: Arrest and Intimidation of wife and sister of detained union leader

Iran: Global Union Organisations Express Deep Concern

Iran: ITUC submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review

Iran: Trade unionist in prison for supporting Mansour Osanloo

Iran: Union Leader Osanloo Beaten and Abducted

Iran: Usual May Day repression

Iraq: Death of President of Iraqi Union of Journalists after Terror Attack

Iraq: Government interference in trade unions internal affairs

Iraq: Trade Union Leader Murdered

Israel: ITUC Condemns Massacre of Students

Israel: Trade Union Centre Histadrut to Allow Migrant Workers Full Membership

Israeli Shelling of UN Compound Utterly Inexcusable, as Death Toll Exceeds 1,000

ITUC Condemns Israel’s Settlement Expansion

ITUC Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire, Launches Humanitarian Appeal

ITUC Deplores Beit Hanoun Killings

Jordan: Violent repression of Vietnamese workers’ strike

Middle East: Governments Step Up Repression As Economic Crisis Hits Jobs and Incomes

Obstacles to core labour standards in Bahrain – new ITUC Report

Palestine: ITUC protests over reported Israeli Army break-in at trade union offices

Palestine: PGFTU Leader Held by Gunmen, Told to Resign

Spotlight interview with Abdul Karim Radhi, legislation advisor of the GFBTU - Bahrain

Spotlight interview with Hashemiyya Muhsin Hussein (Iraq - GFIW)

Spotlight interview with Jehan Seleem Ahmed (Iraqi Kurdistan- KGWSU)

Spotlight Interview with Michel Barka (UST - Chad)

Spotlight interview with Nadia Shabana (Palestine-PGFTU)

Spotlight interview with Nejiba Hamrouni (Tunisia-SNJT)

Spotlight interview with Rasem Al Bayari (PGFTU - Palestine)

Spotlight Interview with Souad Belaidi (Algeria – UGTA)

Turkey: May Day rally violently repressed

United Arab Emirates: workers sentenced to six months’ imprisonment

VIDEO - Migrants in Jordan: How the unions plan to protect and organise them

World protests to demand union rights for Iranian workers

North Africa

55 die in Morocco fire – employer greed and official negligence blamed

Egypt: prison sentence for defender of worker’s rights

Spotlight Interview with Karima Boudrouaz (Algeria - UGTA)

Spotlight interview with Laïla Nassimi (Morocco - CDT)

North America

Spotlight Interview with Ken Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress.

Pacific

Australia: New Report to World Trade Organisation Puts Australia at the Bottom of the OECD on Workers’ Rights, with Women Workers Hardest Hit

Boosting Development in the Asia-Pacific Region Through Decent Work

Problems with the Economic Partnership Agreements

South Asia

Pakistan: ITUC joins Pakistan Workers’ Federation in Calling for Restoration of Democracy

Pakistan: 3 trade unionists released on bail from Jail

Spotlight interview with Binda Pandey, Deputy general secretary of GEFONT (General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions)

Spotlight interview with Maitreyi Shankar (KKPKP - India)

Spotlight Interview with Teresa Joseph and Anjali Shukla (DMW - India)

Sri Lanka: Increasing risks and intimidation for trade unionists

South-East Asia

Burma: EU falls short on sanctions

Burma: Heavy Prison Sentences for Six Labour Rights Advocates

Burma: ITUC and ETUC Call on European Union to Adopt Tough Sanctions

Burma: ITUC Calls for Major Humanitarian Effort

Burma: Military Violence Against Protesters – ITUC Organising Global Action

Burma: UN needs to act fast as situation worsens

Burma: UN Security Council Must Take the Lead

Burma’s “Saffron revolution” is not over

Cambodia: Another Trade Union Leader Murdered

Cambodia: Release Scapegoats for Labor Leader’s Murder

Cambodia: Sentencing of two innocent men for murder of trade unionist a "double travesty of justice"

Chea Vichea Case: Release of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun On Bail

China: Suspects in Stabbing of Labour Rights Activist Finally on Trial

Credibility of Cambodian justice system compromised by the holding of two innocents in prison

Denial of free trade union existence in Brunei

Flagrant violations of core labour standards in Pakistan

Hong Kong: 36-day historical bar-bender strike ended on September 12 after settling a deal with contractors

Indonesia: New ITUC report documents serious violations of all core labour standards

ITUC calls on Companies to End Business Links with Burma

ITUC Condemns India Terror Attacks

Korea: Anti-union repression continues

New Report on Workers’ Rights in Singapore

PlayFair 2008 Response to Beijing Olympics’ Organizing Committee statement on labour rights violations

Preliminary Key Findings of a Joint FIDH-ITUC Mission on Burma

Spotlight interview with Ath Thorn (CLC - Cambodia)

Spotlight interview with Rekson Silaban (Indonesia-KSBSI)

Spotlight on Ramiah Yogarajan (CWC - Sri Lanka)

Thailand: violations of all core labour standards and exploitation of migrant workers

Trade Union Rights Restricted in Korea

Southern Africa

Elections “neither free nor fair” says Zimbabwe Trade Union Congress, as Attacks on Unionists Continue

ITUC Supports Action on Zimbabwe Arms Shipment

ITUC Welcomes France’s Refusal to Invite Mugabe

Mauritius: bad working conditions in the export processing zones

South Africa: Trade union call to end xenophobic violence against migrants in South Africa

Spotlight interview with Ashok Subron (Mauritius - GWF)

Spotlight interview with Esther Stevens (SADSAWU - South Africa)

Spotlight interview with Jan Sithole, general secretary of the SFTU (Swaziland)

Swaziland: Trade Unionists Arrested

WTO: Trade Unions Call for Action on Cotton

ZCTU calls a nationwide work boycott in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Heavy Criticism of Mugabe Regime at ILO Conference, Anti-union Violence Continuing

Zimbabwe: Killings and Torture Continue as Trade Unions Call for ILO Commission of Inquiry

Zimbabwe: Raid on Trade Union Headquarters Ruptures Chances of Tripartite Dialogue

Zimbabwe: Assault and detention of ZCTU officials ahead of today’ s strike

Zimbabwe: despicable attack against trade unionists

Zimbabwe: General Secretary of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) arrested

Zimbabwe: ITUC Protests to Mugabe, Requests ILO Intervention

Zimbabwe: More than 69 Trade Unionists Arrested during peaceful marches

Zimbabwe: Trade Union Leaders Granted Bail, Denied the Right to Address “Political Gatherings”

Zimbabwe: Trial of Trade Union Leaders Delayed; Opposition Withdraws from Election

Zimbabwe: Union Leaders’ Trial Set for 23 June

West Africa

Civil Society in Accra calls for urgent action on aid

Core labour standards violations in Ghana identified in new ITUC report

Decent Work Essential to Effective Development Aid, Unions to Tell International Conference

Guinea – ITUC calls for vigilance and sends international trade union mission

Guinea – ITUC satisfied but remains vigilant

Guinea: Roadmap for Sustainable Development Adopted

ITUC wants those responsible for the “Probo Koala” dumping of hazardous wastes identified and brought to account

Martial Law Decreed in Guinea

Mauritania: ITUC Condemns Violent Repression of Trade Union March

Mauritania: authorities repress trade union rally

Mauritania: Trade Unions Call on UN to Help Restore Democracy

Spotlight interview with Laurent Ouedraogo (CNTB – Burkina Faso)

Spotlight interview with Mariama Dioulde Diallo (Dyers’ Union - Guinea)

Spotlight on Mody Guiro (CNTS-Senegal) and Mamadou Niang (CGTM-Mauritania)

Trade Unions call on UNCTAD XII Conference to approve an UNCTAD agenda to realise decent work and development

VIDEO - Guinea: Call for Solidarity

VIDEO - Spotlight on Salissa (SYNATRAFLA – Burkina Faso)

Campaign Materials

Campaign on Peace and Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Launch on the Eve of the NPT Conference

PERC

Founding of the PERC gives hope to European workers

Spotlight Interview with Daniela Alexieva (CITUB-Bulgaria)

Trade Unions from Across Europe Meet in Budapest to Plan Action for Social Rights

Violence against Women

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