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Son of Babylon film on those still missing in Iraq Following last month's landmark Iraqi Parliamentary screening of the powerful, highly acclaimed film “Son of Babylon ” which has initiated a parliamentary review of Iraq ’s missing person's laws there is a UK Parliamentary screening. The film will be screened... [more] Essential trade union rights and freedoms are at risk Mark Metcalf has a very valuable overview in Tribune about how extremist elements in Iraq’s new government have the country’s union movement in their sights. This should be a call to action by all democrats concerned to support independent civil... [more] Release Jihad Jalil The General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) calls for the release of trade unionist Jihad Jalil The Iraqi security forces have arrested a group of demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, this morning Friday 27/05/2011, while they were participating in... [more] Supporting Iraqi trade unions Please back this campaign in defence of Iraqi trade unions... [more] Human Rights in Iraq Eight years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's odious regime which used genocide, chemical weapons and torture to repress the Iraqi people and destabilised the wider region with wars of aggression, the record of the elected authorities is infinitely better... [more] Unions in Iraq march for labour rights See these pictures of recent demonstration in Baghdad... [more] Kurdistan Region report You can see here the Report of the all-party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.... [more] GFIW Statement The extreme and harsh conditions Iraq and its people are going through is a consequences of failure of the state of Iraq to readdress legitimate grievances such as the erosion of civil liberties including trade union rights to collective bargaining... [more] Solidarity with Iraqi unions Labour Friends of Iraq (LFIQ) fully supports the national union protests across Iraq on Sunday 6 March, organised by the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) and others for improved job standards and labour rights. The unions will rally around... [more] >>> More news |
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