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	International Confederation of Free Trade Unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ICFTU has three regional organisations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas.
		The ICFTU also maintains close links with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) (which includes all ICFTU European affiliates) and Global Union Federations, which link together national unions from a particular trade or industry at international level.
		The ICFTU lobbies for the ratification of what it calls "core labour standards" -- the various conventions of the International Labour Organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ICFTU (490 words)

	icftu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From the 1950s the ICFTU actively recruited new members from the developing regions of first Asia and subsequently Africa.
		The ICFTU has staff which are devoted entirely to the monitoring and defense of workers rights, and they issue -- almost on a daily basis -- alerts and calls to action.
		Every June, the ICFTU publishes its "Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights" which is essential reading for those who are concerned with these issues.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /ICFTU.html (510 words)

	Global Exchange : 30 Unionists Killed This Year Already, Says ICFTU
		The ICFTU's 23 page complaint to the ILO also describes the severe repression suffered by agricultural communities at the hands of the Colombian Army and paramilitary forces associated with it or acting under its control.
		The ICFTU underlines yet again that the majority of violations of trade union rights in Colombia take place in the midst of collective bargaining, strikes and other legitimate trade union activities, and not - as the government claims -a mere coincidence or side-effect of the internal armed conflict affecting the country.
		The ICFTU says it is all the more concerned about this issue since many Colombian trade union leaders and activists have been similarly branded by the government over the years, and that many have been extra-judicially executed as a result.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/colombia/2426.html (938 words)

	globalinfo.org - Oct 26, BELGIUM (#33063)
		The ICFTU represents 148 million workers worldwide and is by far the biggest confederation consisting of 234 affiliated organisations in 152 countries and territories on all five continents.
		The ICFTU has a large membership in industrialised countries and can exert its weight when negotiating with multinational corporations on social issues that can only be dealt with at the international level.
		The ICFTU has always heeded pluralism in the international labour movement, but it is probably true that this has been communicated more efficiently in recent years.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=33063 (693 words)

	ACTU: International: ICFTU Urges APEC To Give Workers The Same Access As Employers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ICFTU calls upon delegates to include the perspective of workers in their positions and support an initiative to set up a consultative labour body to APEC in the run up to the 2nd APEC Senior Officials Meetings on 29 and 30 May 2003.
		The ICFTU is concerned that APEC leaders are failing to include the social dimensions of growth into their policies, which remain dominated by a business-driven effort to enlarge trade and investment opportunities.
		Furthermore, the ICFTU is calling upon APEC countries to respect basic workers' rights by applying the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and recognising freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining in all economic activities, including those in Export Processing Zones.
	www.actu.asn.au /public/international/icftu/1055903480_767.html (576 words)

	BBCBurmese.com
		ICFTU accuses that SWIFT is playing an important role in propping up what they called "the Burmese dictatorship", having recently accepted four Burmese banks into its network.
		Moreover, ICFTU says the Burmese military government is able to use SWIFT’s networks to evade the economic sanctions imposed on it by the international community, particularly sanctions imposed last year by the USA, which excludes, amongst other things, financial transactions to and from Burma in US dollars.
		ICFTU is concerned that Daewoo International operations may unleash a new wave of forced labour.
	www.bbc.co.uk /burmese/highlights/story/2004/07/040701_icftu_dirtylist.shtml (319 words)

	ICFTU Policies adopted by the 16th World Congress of the ICFTU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ICFTU must therefore define appropriate strategies and targets in order to engage with the main international institutions and ensure that their decisions reflect a broader vision of the purpose of international cooperation and coordination than that proposed in the corporate agenda of liberalization and so-called financial stability.
		The ICFTU will invite other international labour organizations to join a campaign to ensure that all unions throughout the world embark on international solidarity projects during the year 2000, including twinning of unions in different countries, the creation of international solidarity funds, union exchanges and other forms of solidarity action.
		One of the major tasks of the ICFTU is to respond in a timely and appropriate manner on behalf of workers and their unions to ensure that increasingly influential international standards reflect a broader agenda than the narrow interests of international organizations representing business and employers.
	www.chasque.apc.org /frontpage/omc/areas/clau.zzz/icftu.zzz/polici.zzz.html (18919 words)

	ICFTU condemns killings of 4 workers in Iran
		The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has sent a letter to Iranian President Seyed Mohammed Khatami, condemning the killings of workers in the Iranian village of Khatounabad and the city of Shahr-e Babak on Saturday 24 January 2004, IRNA reported from Brussels, Belgium.
		The ICFTU said it continues to collect and verify information on the events of 24 January, collated from a range sources including news agencies, the national trade union organisation, members of parliament and security forces within Iran, and organisations outside the country.
		The ICFTU is urging the Iranian authorities to identify and prosecute the perpetrators of these killings.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/feb/1136.html (238 words)

	ICFTU
		The ICFTU and the IFBWW (International Federation of Building and Wood Workers) strongly believe that effective implementation of the decisions of the Habitat II is the key to bring about a change.
		The ICFTU is the world's largest union international which represents 155 million members in 148 countries represented by 221 affiliates.
		Because of its composition, the ICFTU takes a global view on the eradication of poverty, promotion of employment, reduction of human sufferings and campaigns for a global economic and social order to create a better Habitat for all.
	www.un.org /ga/habitat/statements/docs/icftu.html (982 words)

	Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development: ICFTU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ICFTU made environment and development one of the main themes at its World Congress in 1996 and focused particularly on the international aspects of sustainable development.
		The ICFTU sends a large delegation each year to the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) in New York, with a particular focus on the Agenda 21 follow-up to the Rio Summit.
		The ICFTU provides trade union input on a regular basis to the meetings of the Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
	www.greenyearbook.org /ngo/icftu.htm (719 words)

	INT'L WOMEN'S DAY: Unions Launch New Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ICFTU says the campaign aims to "organise women working in the informal economy" and "to enable women in the informal economy to assert their rights and to become the driving force behind unionisation."
		ICFTU says informal work, an ever-growing trend affecting developing and developed nations alike, is often characterised by "zero protection and desperate vulnerability".
		ICFTU says women are over-represented in the informal economy where they are discriminated against.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=22744 (616 words)

	CASE No. 1628/CUBA (1992): Complaint against the Government of Cuba presented by ICFTU
		The ICFTU states that, when the UGTC was established, it decided to request registration from the Ministry of Justice and thus recognition of its legal personality - vital for it to be able to exercise its trade union activities lawfully.
		The ICFTU is also concerned by the fact that the Cuban authorities have acted in such a way as to create a climate of intimidation to undermine and interfere with the setting up of the UGTC and its recruitment activities.
		The ICFTU concludes by pointing out that the situation described above proves that Cuban workers are still denied the basic right of trade union organisation and that the practice of free trade unionism is still subject to widespread repression on the part of the Government.
	www.oit.org.pe /sindi/english/casos/cub/cub199201.html (1366 words)

	UNI : ICFTU Condemns Brutal Police Actions Against NLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has strongly condemned a police siege of the headquarters of the ICFTU-affiliated Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja which took place on June 10, resulting in the death of two trade unionists.
		The two killings and the arrest of several other trade unionists in the main cities, as well as a siege of the house of the NLC President came as the nationwide strike and mass protests against fuel price increases in Nigeria entered their second day.
		The ICFTU has appealed to the Nigerian government to enter into fresh dialogue with the NLC and to set up an independent enquiry on the circumstances that led police to shoot the two trade unionists.
	www.union-network.org /uniflashes.nsf/58f61ccf5875fe90c12567bb005642f9/604d77ef94bbdf1bc1256eb3002ff927?OpenDocument (288 words)

	Summary of Application of ICFTU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ICFTU targets a restricted registrant base and a large end user group with a majority of its focus on non-commercial uses.
		ICFTU is an "Association de fait" under Belgium Law and is a non-profit organization.
		The goal of the ICFTU is to advance the interests of the international community of trade union organizations through its existing constitutional organs.
	www.icann.org /tlds/report/union1.html (1111 words)

	ICFTU Archives
		The founding of the ICFTU was the culmination of the efforts to form an effective and world-wide international organisation of free trade unions which had been uniting workers for almost one hundred years.
		According to the ICFTU constitution membership is open to all bona fide national trade union centres accepting the aims and the constitution of the confederation.
		The ICFTU had and has its own classification systems; a decimal one for the correspondence being classified in files and a letter code for series such as the incoming and outgoing mail, and the documents relating to congresses, conferences and meetings.
	www.iisg.nl /archives/nl/files/i/10751819full.php (5459 words)

	ICFTU CONGRESS CALLS FOR WTO SOCIAL CLAUSE
		ICFTU Secretary-General Bill Jordan addressed delegates at an opening session, urging trade unions to fight the social and economic problems brought on by globalisation.
		ICFTU delegates called for increased co-operation between the WTO and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
		In its statement on international labour standards and trade, the ICFTU called for the establishment of a permanent WTO working group on labour standards and for the adoption of a social clause (e.g.
	www.ictsd.org /html/weekly/story4.11-04-00.htm (278 words)

	Internationally Recognized core Labour Standards in Chile
		Earlier this year, the ICFTU published reports on the respect of internationally recognized core labour standards in Fiji, Paraguay and Benin, on the occasions of the trade policy reviews of those countries by the World Trade Orgaization (WTO).
		The ICFTU is preparing this series of reports in accordance with the Ministerial Declaration adopted at the first Ministerial Summit of the World Trade Organization (WTO) (Singapore, 9-13 December 1996), in which the Ministers stated: "We renew our commitment to the observance of internationally recognized core labour standards."
		This report on Chile, prepared in consultation with the ICFTU affiliate the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), considers in turn the situation with regard to respect of each of the core labour standards in Chile.
	www.itcilo.it /english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/standard/chile.htm (2461 words)

	ICFTU
		The ICFTU, supported by many governments and nongovernment organisations, is campaigning for the introduction of a Social Clause in international trade agreements, especially at global level involving the International Labour Organisation and the World Trade Organisation.
		ITSs are carrying out research, education and other activities to fight against child labour in their various sectors and a number of the case studies which follow are the result of ITS investigations.
		An ICFTU study of the operations of a multinational women's clothing company (producing mainly underwear) in the Philippines found that most of its output was sold in Europe.
	www.unicz.it /lavoro/ICFTU.htm (16727 words)

	Sponsoring Organization's Proposal
		ICFTU has 216 affiliated organisations in 145 countries and territories, and represents 123 million workers, 39 million of whom are women.
		ICFTU secretariat staff are appointed under the authority of the general secretary and subject to Belgian employment law.
		The ICFTU would respect the terms of the contract signed with ICANN, which itself, according to item 4 in its own articles of incorporation, is operating for the benefit of the Internet as a whole.
	www.icann.org /tlds/union1/sponsoring/sponsoring.htm (1423 words)

	UNI : ICFTU launches report on child labour in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brussels, 11 October 2004, (ICFTU Online): At their conference on child labour in Tirana, Albania (11th- 12th October 2004), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and its two Albanian affiliates (KSSH and BSPSH) will launch a new study on the issue of child labour in Albania.
		Failure to implement laws on compulsory education and on the minimum working age are other factors which give rise to child labour, as are dysfunctional families and attitudes towards certain minority groups.
		For example, in the north and north-west of the country children are forced to stay at home out of fear that they could become victims of ongoing violent disputes between families.
	www.union-network.org /uniindep.nsf/0/4AAA0A684EEE517EC1256F2A003C9E2E?OpenDocument (388 words)

	Long road ahead for the ICFTU
		South African interest in the ICFTU increased after the end of the Cold War, when global labour solidarity became more urgent in the face of a renewed global assault from multinational and international financial institutions.
		The ICFTU World President, Fakshin Shaminda, stressed at the conclusion of the Congress that the problems and internal differences that emerged could "make Africa stronger".
		At the ICFTU 2000 Congress in South Africa, the ICFTU adopted a Millennium Review process to find ways to strengthen the labour movement into the 21st century.
	www.naledi.org.za /pbull/vol4no2/v4n2a3.htm (1124 words)

	Cyberdyaryo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ICFTU also warns that the very nature of EPZ investment is precarious and that it can leave the country ”at a moment's notice” if more favorable conditions are on offer elsewhere.
		ICFTU is urging the World Trade Organization (WTO) to address violation of workers' rights in the zones.
		ICFTU adds that many workers in EPZs are denied the right to form trade unions - a “flagrant violation” of international labor standards.
	www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2004_1210_01.htm (873 words)

	Kubatana - Archive - Zimbabwe: ICFTU condemns 350 arrests on national day of union protest - ICFTU - Nov 18, 2003
		Having notified the police of the planned national protest, the ICFTU affiliated-ZCTU, strongly supported by the international trade union movement, had reminded President Mugabe yesterday of his government's obligation to fully respect legitimate trade union activity, in line with core ILO conventions ratified by Zimbabwe.
		In a letter to Robert Mugabe, ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder underlined that "we will add the information on the events of the last 24 hours to our existing complaint against Zimbabwe for violation of freedom of association legislation, lodged with the International Labour Organisation.
		The ICFTU is also highlighting the violations of trade union rights in Zimbabwe to the Commonwealth in the run up to its summit of 54 leaders in December.
	www.kubatana.net /html/archive/lab/031118icftu.asp?sector=HR (384 words)

	ACTU: Campaigns: ICFTU Womens Conference: World Women's Conference Shifts Focus To Challenge Of Organising - 20 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ms Riche called on the ICFTU to establish an Ethics Committee to deal with complaints of sexual harassment, and suggested specific recommendations be made to Global Union Federations to ensure gender equality, including in the make-up of international delegations.
		In parallel with the ICFTU World Women's Conference, Australian women union leaders today opened their conference in Melbourne, with an address from the Minister for Industrial Relations in the Australian State of Victoria, Rob Hulls.
		Refering to the ICFTU theme for the next 8 March international women's day, "Pay Equity Now", Ms Delahunty reminded the audience that "Australia is one of only two OECD countries not to have a national paid maternity leave scheme.
	memberconnect.com.au /public/campaigns/icftuwomensconference/daytworeport.html (543 words)

	Education and decent jobs are top priorities, says ICFTU
		As a member of the High Policy Network, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has continuously pressed for the creation of decent jobs and quality education and training for young people as core elements of the policy recommendations it formulated with the other members of the HPN, the ILO and the World Bank.
		The ICFTU recognises that the recommendations brought forward by the HPN are by no means revolutionary but represent a starting point from which real action can be taken to tackle the increasing scourge of youth unemployment.
		The ICFTU intends to ensure that through the ongoing work of the HPN young people are actively involved in shaping future employment policies and programmes, and become real participants in shaping the future of society, since they are the makers of tomorrow’s world.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/region/ampro/cinterfor/temas/worker/youth/doc/i.htm (402 words)

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