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Brussels, April 20 (ITUC Online): Cases of repression by the Egyptian Government against the Centre for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), an independent civil society organization committed to defending trade union and other workers’ rights in Egypt, have occurred recently in Egypt. The ITUC is concerned in particular about the decision to shut down
Read moreBrussels, April 20 (ITUC Online): Cases of repression by the Egyptian Government against the Centre for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), an independent civil society organization committed to defending trade union and other workers’ rights in Egypt, have occurred recently in Egypt. The ITUC is concerned in particular about the decision to shut down
Read moreBrussels, April 19 (ITUC online): Both the ITUC and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) have condemned the legal proceedings that have been brought against 11 Turkish trade union leaders, and the jail sentences that may result from these. Back in December 2005, the ITUC wrote to the authorities to protest at the violent repression
Read moreBrussels, 18 April 2007 (ITUC OnLine): In an explosive new report submitted to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the ITUC has presented direct evidence of collusion between Colombia’s notorious DAS Security Agency and paramilitary death squads in the murder of at least seven trade unionists since the early 1990’s. The DAS (or “Administrative Security Department”)
Read moreBrussels, 18 April 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian authorities for their intensified attacks on independent trade unions in the country, with the arrests of hundreds of leaders and members of teachers’ organisations and further persecution of bakery workers’ leader Mahmoud Salehi from the city of Saqez in
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