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Spotlight interview with Abdou Maigandi (Niger – USTN) Brussels 04 July 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The USTN has been involved in a campaign to organise informal economy workers since the eighties, working on the ground, targeting a selection of trades, organising information and awareness-raising campaigns, training…. Abdou Maigandi, general secretary of the Union des Syndicats des
Read moreBrussels, 5 July 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): As officials tie down the last minute details in preparations for the G8 summit in St Petersburg next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin is to receive a global union delegation in Moscow on July 6. The delegation of G8 and international trade union leaders, which includes ICFTU General Secretary
Read moreBrussels, 5 July 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU has just published a new report on core labour standards in Togo, to coincide with the WTO’s review, this week, of the country’s trade policy. The ICFTU report denounces the numerous barriers to the effective application of fundamental workers’ rights in Togo. It explains that although Togo
Read moreBrussels 06 July 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): , A major report released by the ICFTU today uncovers the disturbing extent of corporate tax avoidance and evasion and warns that unless governments cease engaging in the race to lower corporate taxes, both industrialized and developing countries will face a major public funding crisis. The figures in the
Read moreBrussels 07 July 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU and the World Confederation of Labour today hailed the conclusions of a high-level meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission as providing an unprecedented degree of commitment from governments and so a major impetus for decent work and development in the world economy. The three-day
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