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Brussels, 24 July 2007 (ITUC Online): The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) today welcomed with relief the news of the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor by the Libyan authorities. The seven have been in jail since 1999, charged and subsequently sentenced to death for allegedly infecting 393 children with the HIV/AIDS
Read moreBrussels, 18 July 2007 (ITUC Online) : The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has been sharply critical of new proposals in world trade talks on manufactured goods. The new modalities, put on the table yesterday at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the chair of the “NAMA” negotiations, ignore the numerous concerns that the ITUC
Read moreBrussels, 18 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): A new ITUC report draws attention to problems regarding trade union organising, the right to strike, discrimination and forced labour in the Gulf state of Bahrain. The report is being released today to coincide with Bahrain’s trade policy review at the WTO on 18 and 20 July. Bahrain has not
Read moreBrussels, 13 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have protested to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the brutal beating and abduction of bus workers’ trade union leader Mansour Osanloo in the evening of 10 July. Osanloo, who addressed the ITUC General Council meeting on 21 June, was abducted
Read moreBrussels, 10 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Shaher Sae’d, General Secretary of the ITUC-affiliated Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, was today forcibly taken from a Nablus restaurant by masked gunmen, who threatened him and tried to force him to resign from his trade union position and to end his involvement in other Palestinian civil society
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