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Brussels, 23 October 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC is relieved to learn that Mansour Osanloo, the imprisoned President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) has finally received much-needed emergency eye surgery. Osanloo, whose imprisonment had earlier prevented him from undergoing scheduled eye surgery, was at risk of becoming
Read moreSpotlight interview with Dominique Bicamumpaka (COTRAF-Rwanda) Brussels, 23 October 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Dominique Bicamumpaka, President and Coordinator of COTRAF (Congrès du Travail et de la Fraternité) tells us about the trade union movement in Rwanda and his union’s efforts to organise the informal economy. What are your union’s aims? Our goal is
Read moreSpotlight interview with Eric Manzi (CESTRAR-Rwanda) Brussels, 23 October 2007: What can be done to reach informal economy workers and respond to the rise of the private sector? Eric Manzi, general secretary of CESTRAR (Centrale des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Rwanda ), outlines the trade union priorities in Rwanda. How did CESTRAR emerge?
Read moreParis-Brussels, 23 October 2007: After the September crackdown on peaceful protests in Burma, the International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) decided to send a joint international fact-finding mission on the Thai border with Burma to collect first-hand information on the wave of repression. The objective was also to
Read moreBrussels, 19 October 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Mansour Osanloo, the President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) who has been detained in the notorious Evin prison in Teheran since July this year has lost the sight of one eye after being denied the urgent medical treatment he needed.
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