4 November 2010: According to Global March Governing Board member, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the 2011 edition of the World Bank’s Doing Business report includes a welcome first step for revising the report’s past practice of encouraging countries to dismantle labour and social regulations, which it did by granting its best […]
2010 Human Development Report
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) celebrated the 20th anniversary of its publication theHuman Development Report on 4th November 2010. The 2010 Report, entitled The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who helped devise […]
EU Presidency to put Financial Transaction Tax on G20 agenda in Seoul
3 November 2010: The Belgian government has announced plans to use its Presidency of the European Union (EU) to put the Global Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) on the G20 agenda in Seoul, Korea, from 11-12 November 2010. The announcement was made by Mr Didier Reynders, Belgium’s Finance Minister, who also committed […]
Core labour standard violations in Belize
3 November 2010: The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has submitted a new report to provide additional information to the General Council of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in its review of trade policies of Belize. The report finds that internationally recognised core labour standards are violated especially with regard to […]
New core labour standards report on Sri Lanka
3 November 2010: The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has submitted a new report to provide additional information to the General Council of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in its review of trade policies of Sri Lanka. In the report, the ITUC notes that although Sri Lanka has ratified all eight […]
Campaign continues for Global Financial Transaction Tax
As the G20 Summit in Seoul approaches (click here for more information), the pressing call for a Global Financial Transaction Tax continues. Global March members and partners will recall an appeal we launched on this issue earlier this year when members and partners were urged to sign up to the […]
New draft ILO Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Agriculture
Experts representing workers, employers and governments, meeting at the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 25 to 29 October 2010 have adopted a new draft Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Agriculture designed to improve working conditions in agriculture which employs some one billion workers worldwide. The new draft […]
Concern over impact of austerity measures ahead of Seoul G20 Summit
The build-up to the next G20 Summit to be held in Seoul, Korea, from 11 to 12 November 2010 is well under way, yet there is little room for much optimism in light of the ongoing austerity measures being announced and implemented by a number of industrial nations. There have […]
Global March welcomes election of new Brazilian President
1st November 2010: Global March welcomes the news that Ms Dilma Rousseff has been elected President of Brazil to succeed President Lula da Silva. Ms Rousseff, who takes up office on 1st January 2011, will become the country’s first woman president. In her victory speech, she said her first priority would […]
World March of Women closes 3rd international action 2010
The World March of Women (WMW) is closing its third international action in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), from 14 to 17 October 2010. More than 38,000 women have joined the action since it was opened on International Women’s Day 8th March 2010. Women and allies have been […]