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Brussels, 10 July 2007 (ITUC online): Trade unions and other civil society organizations supporting migrants’ rights have criticized the direction of this week’s meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Brussels as ignoring the rights and interests of migrants, focusing instead on a narrow agenda dealing only with temporary forms of migration
Read moreSpotlight interview with Gemma Adaba (ITUC – United Nations Office) Brussels, 09 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The first edition of the annual Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), a United Nations initiative to promote high level dialogue on the links between migration and development, is to take place in Brussels on 10 and 11
Read moreBrussels, 6 July 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Acting on a report from its Palestinian affiliate the PGFTU, the ITUC has expressed its grave concerns over a break-in by members of the Israeli Defence Force at the PGFTU’s Ramallah offices early in the morning of 4 July. In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, ITUC
Read moreBrussels, 6 July 2007 (ITUC online): Social dialogue and a rights based framework must be at the heart of migration policy – this is the message representatives will take to the “Civil Society Day” of the Global Forum on Migration and Development that takes place in Brussels from 9 to 11 July. Civil society actors
Read moreBrussels, 5 July 2007 (ITUC Online): Concern is growing for the welfare of Mr. Mahmoud Salehi, the leader and founding member of the Baker Workers’ Association of Saquez, who has been in prison since 9 April 2007 and whose medical condition is now considered life-threatening. Mr. Salehi has a stone in his one remaining kidney
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