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Highlight: The High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development which took place in Mexico on 15th and 16th April.
Our next newsletter will focus on the ITUC Congress.

Read the trade union assessment of the High Level Meeting

See trade unions intervention on the private sector

How silver-tongued multinationals can win trust in development circles

If civil society is to embrace the private sector, big business must ditch the cliches and build a transparent regulatory environment.

Read the article from the Guardian

The new post-2015 priorities - a mix of forward and backward steps

In March 2014, the United Nations published 19 focus areas, as the basis for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) negotiations. The list has now been updated.

Let the people decide their future!

In May 2014, PLADA, the Development Platform of the Americas was created in Santiago de Chile.

The PLADA is a tool for trade unions in the Americas to advance towards a new model of sustainable development.

Why Ghana must not sign the EPAs in its current form -Kwabena Nyarko Otoo

There are plenty of reasons why Ghana must not sign the Free Trade Trojan horse packaged as Economic Partnership Agreement.

Africa Rising: Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation - report

Christian Aid and Tax Justice Network Africa have recently launched their report “Africa Rising? Inequalities and the essential role of fair taxation”.
The report looks at the link between tax policy and inequality, and focuses on eight African countries: Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Workshops of ITUC Africa

Two Capacity Building workshops have been carried out within the framework of the Trade Union Development Cooperation Network - Africa Region in the 1st quarter of 2014. These workshops were with the Togolese and Ghanaian affiliates and took place in March and April respectively.

3rd Photographic Competition of SOTERMUN (Association for Solidarity with Workers in Impoverished Countries)

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