Hiroshima/Nagasaki Anniversary Must Spur Efforts to End Nuclear Weapons
This week’s 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with 250,000 killed and many more suffering terrible effects on their health, is a sombre reminder of the appalling destruction of nuclear weapons and should spur international efforts to eliminate them.
180+ Orgs Demand Apparel Brands End Complicity in Uyghur Forced Labour
Today, 72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.
Council of Global Unions Statement on the Suppression of Democratic Rights in the Philippines
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) – representing more than 200 million workers from across the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Global Union Federations including the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD join Philippine trade unions in condemning the Philippine government’s continued attacks on democratic institutions and its relentless suppression of the democratic rights of Filipino workers.
G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting Fails to Rise to the Challenge
The statement of the meeting of G20 G20 The Group of Twenty, or G20, is a forum for international cooperation on the most important aspects of the international economic and financial agenda. It brings together 19 countries and the European Union, which together represent around 90% of global GDP, 80% of global trade and two thirds of the world’s population. Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on 18 July falls well below what the world needs to combat the devastating health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
