#SouthKorea 🇰🇷: The ITUC condemns the raids on the offices of Korean unions by the intelligence services as an open attack on democracy & the labour movement.
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Amazon is one of the richest companies in the world.
can afford to pay their workers properly
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"Covering politics, crime, & corruption can be equally or more deadly than covering a full-scale war."
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🔥 Workers everywhere stand with Amazon workers on strike today in the UK. When we fight, we win!
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The has reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. This is a global alarm we cannot afford to ignore any longer. But we have a plan to protect humanity from nuclear war, take action now. #nuclearban 🧵1
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Faced with political inaction and “anti-climate” measures, scientists are leaving their laboratories and taking to the streets
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🧑🏽🌾What about the health of agricultural workers?
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#Global #Agriculture #Agrochemicals #OSH #Health #WorkersRights
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Rishi Sunak's new anti-union legislation means when workers democratically vote to strike, they could be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. Join the campaign to protect the right to strike. megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot via
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Access to quality education 📚✍️💡 has power to change the 🌎 and transform lives by helping people overcome poverty, inequality and discrimination.
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This #EducationDay, let's be inspired by Nelson Mandela's words and continue to prioritize education.
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On #EducationDay, SOLIDAR Foundation stresses the importance of quality education as a public good and for a new education governance to ensure and achieve sustainable and democratic societies.
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Eswatini: Leave no stone unturned in ensuring justice for Thulani Maseko’s unlawful killing
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The head of the Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine Oleh Panasenko reminds of the importance of blood donation.
"VPMPU members save lives of civilians and soldiers. We deliver aid to hospitals and military doctors. We help in any way we can, and by blood donation too"
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#Eswatini: The ITUC deplores the murder of Thulani Maseko, a human and trade union rights lawyer and political activist in Eswatini.
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Stephen Cotton () tells #wef23 of the need for employers to engage with their workforces during the green transition.
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The ILAW Network condemns the murder of renowned human and labor rights lawyer Thulani Maseko, apparently by agents of the monarchy. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues, and solidarity with all who are struggling for justice in eSwatini.
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A giant has fallen at the behest of the enemy. Mchana, my attorney, my friend, my comrade, a peacemaker, a leader of our people, a voice of reason, etc. By the cowardice act of a failed terrorist state, he is nomore!
Rest in power, Mchana! Until Victory Always!
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SWATCAWU condemns in the strongest terms the assassination one of Swaziland's outstanding lawyers for Human Rights, Cde ThulaniRudolfMaseko
Our thoughts are with the entire MDM and the Maseko family and friends.
#handsoffsticks
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Devastating news. Thulani Maseko - long time lawyer of the Eswatini trade union movement - was assassinated last night. Such a terrible loss. Thulani also spent time in prison a few years ago for the sole crime of telling the truth. This is just awful. RIP Thulani.
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#Eswatini I am saddened by the murder of prominent activist Thulani Maseko. I strongly condemn this act. I call on Government to ensure a prompt, independent and thorough investigation into his murder &provide justice to his family.
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#KCTU president denounced “Yesterday's search and seizure at the KCTU office was a stage show that was directed by the National Intelligence Service at the request of the president.” to stop KCTU’s bitter criticism against the government.
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Unite stands in full solidarity with #Korean trade unions - KCTU & health workers union offices raided by police & intelligence services this morning - 100s police still surround their buildings.
We stand with them in fighting anti democratic actions by all gov’ts globally ✊🏽
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BREAKING - South Korea 🇰🇷: ITF condemns in the strongest terms the South Korean government raid on the KCTU and other union offices and new legal attacks against KPTU-TruckSol.
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🇰🇷Yesterday's raid on the KHMU and KCTU offices by S. Korean forces can only be seen as an attempt to silence and intimidate the country's labour movement.
We stand in #solidarity against this suppression.
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#Eswatini: The ITUC is deeply concerned by the recent attacks on trade unionists and pro-democracy campaigners by government forces in Eswatini.
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Great news to begin the new year: Djibouti just signed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This means that 92 countries have now signed the #nuclearban treaty and 68 states have ratified it!🙌🇩🇯
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Billionaires are a failure of policy. They exist only because governments have chosen to prop up a #SurvivalOfTheRichest system that keeps billions of people in poverty, burns the planet and threatens future human existence.
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" has put out its annual inequality report..., and it raises some uncomfortable truths for the Davos set. The richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020 — a colossal $42 trillion."
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