Education International renewed its calls for a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) at the meeting of education donor nations in Madrid, Spain, in November 2010. The lack of support from the West could force poor countries to shut schools and sack teachers, depriving millions of children of education. The meetings of […]
Inter-Agency Report on Trade and Employment
12 November: Open markets play a pivotal role in supporting growth and job creation, says a new joint report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But, it adds, trade opening must be complemented by […]
Seoul G20 Declaration not enough to allay fears over global austerity measures
The G20 Summit in Seoul ended on 12 November 2010 issuing a declaration which, while acknowledging the importance of job creation at the heart of the recovery and the need to provide social protection for the most vulnerable, still does not go far enough in easing major concerns about the […]
Final report of 2010 Global Child Labour Conference
The final report of the Global Child Labour Conference held in The Hague, May 2010, is now available from the conference organisers, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment of the Netherlands and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Over 500 representatives from 97 countries around the world participated attended the […]
New ILO report for G20 Summit
8 November 2010: Echoing the call of the ITUC and the Global Unions for G20 leaders to place job creation at the centre of the response to the economic crisis, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new statistical update on employment and labour market trends in the run-up to […]
Global March supports demands for release of imprisoned professor in Colombia
Global March Governing Board member Education International (EI) has launched a new urgent action appeal to call on the government of Colombia to release Miguel Ángel Beltrán Villegas, a university professor and trade unionist who has been imprisoned. EI explains that Professor Beltrán was first tried in 2009 on spurious […]
ITUC calls on World Bank to complete overhaul of Doing Business Report
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 […]