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COVID-19 Pandemic: News from unions
18-03-2020
2020 ITUC Global Rights Index: violations of workers’ rights at seven-year high
18-06-2020
ILO Global Summit on COVID-19 and The World of Work (1-9 July 2020)
25-06-2020
17-08-2020

Belarus: Strikes and Workplace Protests add Pressure on Lukashenko to go

Following massive public mobilisations in recent days, a wave of strikes and workplace protests are adding pressure on Belarus’ dictator Alexander Lukashenko to step down immediately. Lukashenko’s 26-year grip on power began to unravel after faked election results giving him 80% of the vote caused outrage around the country.

11-08-2020

Belarus’ rigged presidential election must be re-run and police brutality must cease, demands ITUC

The ITUC has denounced the violent attacks by the police and the special security forces on demonstrators protesting over disputed presidential elections on Sunday evening in Belarus (9 August) and called on the government of Belarus to respect the true voice of its citizens.

06-08-2020

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.

23-07-2020

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.

21-07-2020

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.

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ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: 22 – 25 June 2020 Key Findings
29-06-2020

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