Rights

23 October 2024 12:17

Strengthening Voices: Organising and collective bargaining in Africa

 

The ITUC–Africa, together with global unions, on 3 and 4 October 2024 organised the first forum which sought to address challenges of organising and collective bargaining, in Kigali, Rwanda. Read more...


23 October 2024 11:10

In 2025, the global community will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995).Read more...


23 October 2024 10:24

The Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI) and its affiliate Unite the Union have filed a complaint with the National Contact Points (NCPs) in the US, Ireland, and the UK. Read more...


22 October 2024 08:43

Geneva, 22 October 2024 - The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) warns against FIFA’s blatant disregard for human rights in its process of assessing the 2034 FIFA World Cup’s award to Saudi Arabia. Despite serious, documented abuses of over 21,000 migrant workers, FIFA has chosen to ignore the voices of those who have been victims of forced labour and wage theft, failing to uphold its own commitments to human rights.Read more...


22 October 2024 06:41

On 20 October 2024, around 100,000 workers gathered in Tandoğan Square, Ankara, for the “We Are Struggling, We Can’t Make Ends Meet” rally organised by the Turkish Confederation of Labour Unions (Türk-İş). Read more...


21 October 2024 07:52

The BWI Africa and Middle East region, in partnership with affiliates NUCECFWW and CCESSA, held a one-and-a-half-day Regional Organising Academy (ROA) seminar in Abuja, Nigeria, on 15-16 October 2024.Read more...


15 October 2024 06:15

On 7 October 2024, the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) organised a 15-minute general strike, which took place at 12:00 PM Jerusalem time. Read more...


11 October 2024 05:14

The BWI-affiliated STECOMA in Rwanda held its third Congress on 3 October 2024, under the theme “Moving Forward Together.Read more...


09 October 2024 09:46

On 4 October 2024, the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), in partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Labour (MoL) and the Workers Support and Insurance Fund (WSIF), hosted the Community Leaders’ Forum (CLF) in Doha.Read more...