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Brussels, 21 January 2009 (ITUC online): The ITUC is deeply shocked by the inadequate investigation into the particularly barbarous attack on Constantina Kuneva, General Secretary of the trade union covering the cleaning sector in the Athens region, PEKOP. The ITUC fully supports the complaint of its Greek affiliate the GSEE(*), which “strongly protests
Read moreBrussels, 19 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The cessation of fighting in Gaza opens a vital opportunity to build a just and lasting peace, which both Israel and Palestine must seize, in order to end the cycle of conflict and ensure justice for the Palestinian people. The international community must do its utmost to help ensure
Read moreWashington, 18 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): Commitments to strengthen social programmes for workers hit by the economic crisis and to increase action on core labour standards were made by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the conclusion today of two days of meetings with an 85-member international trade union
Read moreBrussels, 16 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC condemns yesterday’s shelling by the Israeli military, apparently using white phosphorus, of the UN compound in Gaza as utterly inexcusable, as Israel pushes further into Gaza city with the loss of yet more civilian lives. Three UN workers were injured and vital aid supplies were destroyed in
Read moreBrussels, 15 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine): After 14 months of delay, the hearing for suspects in the stabbing of Huang Qingnan, a workers’ rights activist from Shenzhen, will take place on 16 January. On 20 November 2007, Huang Qingnan, an activist and former migrant worker from the Dagongzhe labour centre, was brutally assaulted and left
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