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Brussels, 7 September 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has received from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) the information that the wife and sister of the imprisoned Iranian bus union leader, Mansour Osanloo, were briefly arrested on 3 September 2007 in Tehran, after they attempted to meet with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Read moreBrussels, 6 September 2007 (ITUC OnLine): A new ITUC Regional Organisation for Asia and the Pacific has been created, with the founding Congress of the ITUC Asian Pacific (ITUC-AP) taking place in Bangalooru, India, on 5 and 6 September. The Congress of the new organisation registered a membership of some 18.6 million, with 48 affiliates
Read moreBrussels, 31 August 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Globally, at any given time, at least 12.3 million people are working in forced labour conditions as defined in Convention number 29 of the International Labour Organisation. More than 2.4 million of these victims have been trafficked. They are subjected to psychological or physical coercion. In practice this means
Read moreSydney, 31 August 2007: Meeting for the 13th Asia Pacific Labour Network meeting, union leaders from the region sent a strong message to the upcoming Leaders summit: rather than continuing to narrowly focus on trade and investment liberalisation, APEC must broaden its scope to deal with the economic and social realities of the majority of
Read moreBrussels, 28 August 2007: Two trade unionists have been murdered in Panama for opposing mass dismissals and the obligation to join the yellow union, SINDICOPP, controlled by construction giant Norberto Odebrecht. The ITUC, which has three affiliated organisations in Panama (Confederación de Trabajadores de la República de Panamá (CTRP), Confederación General de Trabajadores de Panamá
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