50 million companies and 207 million workers urge governments to accelerate SDG action
The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) jointly call on governments to intensify their efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs SDGs The Sustainable Development Goals were one of the outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference. The members States launched a new set of future international development goals, which will build upon the Millennium Development Goals and converge with the post-2015 development agenda. ).
Colombia: threats against teachers
The ITUC has expressed grave concern over the deteriorating situation in Colombia, with the emergence of new threats against the lives of teachers and their representatives from trade union FECODE. The paramilitary group “Black Eagles” issued death threats against several leaders of the union on 3 September.
International outrage at Chile’s brutal breech of freedom of association
The ITUC has joined international condemnation of the Chilean government’s repressive crackdown of a demonstration in Santiago yesterday. Trade unionists were among those targeted by police aggression and arrests in the aftermath of Thursday’s peaceful demonstration.
Amazon: global resistance to Bolsonaro’s destruction
The ITUC has expressed its full solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon who have seen vast swathes of their homeland go up in smoke. The policies and environmental denialism of Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro have been heavily criticised by the international community as contributing to the devastation.
500 days a political prisoner: Free Lula Now!
On Tuesday 20 August, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva will have been a political prisoner for 500 days. The clamour for his release has not stopped, and nearly 100,000 people have signed the recently launched petition calling for the annulment of the corrupt and bogus trials that sent him to prison, despite the lack of evidence.
