ICTU Headquarters

Trade Union statement on the Nairobi Outcome Document (NOD) of the 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), Nairobi, Kenya, 28 November-1 December 2016


Trade Unions at HLM2: Trade Unions were well represented at the GPEDC HLM2 as speakers in the various plenary and amphitheatre sessions on taking stock of development effectiveness, GPEDC-2030 Agenda synergies, private sector, south-south cooperation, youth and women and multi-stakeholder...
Mexican women human rights defenders

Meeting with Mexican Human Rights Defenders


David Joyce, Congress, met today with two Mexican women human rights defenders - Cristina Auerbach and María Esmeralda Saldana - here on a visit hosted by PBI Ireland. They are in Dublin to speak to a number of Irish organizations and Government representatives about Business and Human Rights...
Congress Global Solidarity Committee refugee camps in Calais

Welcome to the 'Jungle'


Ashling Seely and Yvonne O'Callaghan of the Congress Global Solidarity Committee report on a visit to refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk, against the backdrop of a disappointing outcome from the recent UN Summit on Refugees & Migrants in New York The New York Declaration falls far short of what is...
ICTU Headquarters

PEACE PROCESS MUST BE BUILT ON JUSTICE FOR COLOMBIA


Assistant General Secretary Peter Bunting on the recent peace deal in Colombia and at the trade union role in the wider peace process It appears peace has finally come to Colombia and Latin America's longest-running conflict is at an end. The peace accord between government and FARC rebels is...
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Global Issues, Local Action


David Joyce delves into some of the key issues to be tacked at the Global Solidarity Summer School Global challenges & Opportunities: Local & Global Responses is the theme for the 2016 Global Solidarity Summer School, which takes place this year in Donegal. This is the eight successive incarnation...
ICTU Headquarters

Solidarity with Korean Trade Unions


Following a call for solidarity via the ITUC, Congress wrote to the Korean authorities regarding the KCTU President Han Sang-gyun and the likelihood of him facing an 8-year imprisonment for combined charges against him by the Korean government. His 5 year sentence was since announced by the Korean...

TTIP

Motion no
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Northern Ireland Committee Biennial Delegate Conference 2016
“This Conference is extremely concerned by ongoing international trade negotiations that will most certainly endanger government’s ability to regulate, and citizen’s rights to access basic public services; e.g. water, health and energy all for the sake of...
Adopted
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