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“For my eight-year-old son, a policeman is… someone who hits his mother” Spotlight interview with Vimbai Zinyama (ZCTU-Zimbabwe) Brussels, 12 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The recent arrest of the president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) once again bears witness to the constant harassment and insecurity facing trade unionists in the country (*1).
Read moreZimbabwe: Trade Union President Arrested While On Tour in the Country Brussels, 9 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has strongly condemned the arrest of ZCTU President Lovemore Matombo and two members of his staff, Michael Kandukutu and Percy Mcijo, for exercising their legitimate trade union activity. According to the information received by the ITUC
Read moreG20 Finance Ministers: Unions Call for Genuine Reform and Action on Jobs, Poverty and Climate Brussels, 6 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): International trade union bodies are calling for the weekend meeting of G20 Finance Ministers in St Andrews, Scotland, to push forward with effective regulation of the international financial system, reform of the International Monetary
Read moreSouthern Africa: Swaziland Worst Offender on Workers’ Rights Brussels, 4 November 2009 (ITUC OnLine): A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in the countries of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of their trade policies, has found that the current legislation limits
Read moreNo End to Assassinations of Trade Unionists in Columbia Brussels, 27 August 2009: Once again the ITUC must strongly denounce and condemn the death of a Colombian trade unionist. This time the victim was Fredy Díaz Ortiz, a member of the prison workers’ union Asociación Sindical de Empleados del Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (ASEINPEC)
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