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Stop Violence Against Women Day: Governments to Take Decisive Action to End Violence Against Women Brussels, 25 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): On the occasion of the UN International Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the ITUC and affiliates in a range of countries are organizing activities to say “no to violence against women
Read moreTurkey: 22 Public Sector Union Members and Leaders Freed After Six Months of Unlawful Detention Brussels, 23 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): On Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November, in Izmir, Turkey, the ITUC attended, together with over a dozen representatives from trade unions and Global Union Federations from eight different European countries, the trial
Read moreITUC Mourns the Passing of Global Trade Union Leader Neil Kearney Brussels, 19 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): It is with profound sadness that the ITUC has learned of the passing of global trade union leader Neil Kearney in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 18 November. Born in 1950 in Donegal, Ireland, Neil Kearney served as General Secretary
Read moreClimate Change: Realism Must Also Mean Ambition Brussels, 17 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): With governments downplaying prospects for December’s UN climate summit and the chances of a binding agreement receding fast, the international trade union movement has called on governments to go to Copenhagen ready to make decisions that will put the world on an
Read moreGuatemala: Women Trade Unionists Held Captive at Labour Ministry Brussels, 16 November 2009: The ITUC has strongly condemned the illegal detention on 6 November of a group of women trade unionists from the Guatemalan labour, indigenous and campesino movement, MSICG. This illegal act of intimidation and mistreatment represents a blatant violation of workers’ fundamental rights.
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