01 March 2023 06:33
2023 International Women's Month
The Building and Wood Workers International (BWI) will mark the 2023 International Women’s Day with a week-long campaign that carries the theme: “Women for Fair Transition: Equality, Peace, and Green Jobs.”
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12 February 2023 23:11
To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, BWI will underscore climate justice and a just transition as essential elements in achieving a gender-equal future of work. Read more...
10 December 2022 04:41
On the occasion of the 2022 International Human Rights Day, which also culminates this year’s 16 Days of Trade Union Activism on Violence Against Women, BWI publicly shared a resolution it passed during its 5th World Congress last October condemning the state violence directed against the women of Iran.
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04 December 2022 11:58
In its effort to further promote gender equality amidst a fast changing world of work, BWI, in its 5th World Congress last October 2022, passed key resolutions that promote the rights of LGBTIQ workers, and embed the principles of gender equality in just transition and green economic plans to address the climate crisis.Read more...
01 December 2022 13:31
As with previous years, BWI affiliates in Southern Africa join the rest of the world in drawing attention to the violence that women and young people are confronted with daily. Read more...
28 November 2022 12:03
In keeping with this year’s 16 Days of Trade Union Activism on Violence against Women, BWI is sharing two gender equality resolutions that it has adopted at its 5th World Congress last October in Madrid, Spain. Read more...
28 November 2022 02:40
As part of BWI’s 16 Days of Trade Unionism on Violence against Women this year, it released a magazine showcasing the major policy deliberations and decisions of the global union’s women trade unionists in the lead up and during its 5th World Congress last October 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
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25 November 2022 01:56
BWI joins women workers, trade unions and the international community in marking this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November by launching our annual “16 Days of Trade Union Activism on Violence Against Women.”
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14 November 2022 09:50
Nigeria on 8 November 2022 deposited with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) the instrument of ratification of ILO Convention No. 190 on the Violence and Harassment in the World of Work. It becomes the 22nd country next to Panama to ratify the said convention.
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