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30-01-2019

Boosting trade unions’ development partnerships in Southern Africa

Twenty-five participants from twenty-one labour organisations discussed partnerships and development cooperation at the African Trade Union Development Network (ATUDN) Partnerships Meeting for Southern Africa that took place in Windhoek (Namibia) on 23-24 January.

07-07-2011

International Criminal Court Must Speed Up Investigations into Sex Crimes in DRC

The ITUC is calling on the International Criminal Court to speed up its inquiries and investigations into the crimes committed in eastern DR Congo, particularly sex crimes, and to prosecute those responsible. It has also underlined the urgent need for the international community to ensure a strengthening of the judicial system in DRC as well as capacity building for its judges in the area of international criminal law.

24-11-2010

Child Labour and Anti-union Actions Frequent in the DRC

The ITUC is releasing today a report on core labour standards in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), coinciding with the Trade Policy Review of the country at the WTO. The report finds prevalent violations of all core international labour standards especially with regard to child labour and forced labour.

21-10-2010

DR Congo: women trade unionists present en masse at World March of Women

The streets of Bukavu (DR Congo) resounded on Sunday with the voices of thousands of women from all around the world, marching with colourful banners to express solidarity with the women victims of the sexual violence plaguing this eastern part of DR Congo. Among them, Congolese women trade unionists and their sisters from eleven African countries, accompanied by representatives from the ITUC and its regional organisation ITUC-Africa, asserted a strong trade union presence at this event calling for an end to impunity, reparation for the women victims in DR Congo, and the establishment of a lasting peace in the region.

11-10-2010

World March of Women in Bukavu: Massive Trade Union Mobilisation to End Violence Against Women

Launched for the first time in 2000, the World March of Women (WMW) is set to close its third edition from 14 to 17 October 2010 in Bukavu, in the province of South Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A vast global movement mobilising groups and organisations fighting for the eradication of the causes of poverty and violence against women, the WMW will bring together, in Bukavu, an international delegation of 250 women from over 160 countries, alongside 900 Congolese women from the nation’s ten regions.

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