The Global Union Federations is calling Cambodia to release Rong Chhun and other trade unionists in the country. Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, was arrested by police at his home on 31st July, after the Cambodian Border Affairs Committee publicly called on authorities to take action against the unionist for his comments, following a…
Shrinking Space: worrying crackdown on opposition and unions’ leaders in Zimbabwe A renewed wave of repression of freedom of association and peaceful assembly is hitting Zimbabwean human rights defenders, opposition supporters, civil society and trade union activists. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), reported that the situation is worsening day by day. The most recent examples are: In…
This week, on 17 July 2019, SOLIDAR – together with its Serbian member IDC – followed and actively participated to the Voluntary National Review (VNR) of the Republic of Serbia held in the framework of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The VNRs are country-led and country-driven reviews undertaken to assess progress on the…
Eight years after the Arab Spring, rethinking EU policies for the Southern Neighbourhood A report on the post-Arab Spring: way forward for the MENA region was approved in early February by the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). The text will be presented in a European Parliament plenary on 2 March and is expected…
Next week, SOLIDAR will be in Amman for a Seminar that will take place in the context of the new EU-funded project, called Malajat. This new project, a partnership between EuroMed Rights, Forum des Alternatives Maroc, the Arab NGO Network for Development, the Arab Trade Union Confederation, Réseau Euromed France and SOLIDAR, aims to address…
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