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January 2022

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    Voices

    I am a champion for migrant workers

    26 January 2022

    Maya Aktar left her home in Bangladesh to work as a receptionist at a garment factory in Jordan. She is now a union organizer and advocates for the rights of other migrant garment workers.

October 2016

  1. Freedom of Association

    Towards Trade Union Unity in Uganda

    12 October 2016

    With the support of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV), 42 unions adopted a resolution to enhance trade union unity in Uganda.

March 2014

  1. Workers’ rights in the Asia Pacific Region

    Helen Kelly: "In many countries, being a trade union activist is risky"

    31 March 2014

    Unions in Asia and the Pacific must use the ILO’s supervisory mechanisms to demand respect of freedom of association and collective bargaining in their countries. This is the opinion of Helen Kelly who chairs the New Zealand Council of Trade Union (NZCTU). In this interview, Ms. Kelly gives her views about the situation of workers' rights in Fiji and Bangladesh. She also underlines the need for New Zealand to ratify several ILO core conventions to respect workers’ rights.

  2. 320th Session of the Governing Body

    Workers’ Group pays tribute to trade unionist Marc Blondel

    17 March 2014