Putting rights at the centre of Covid-19 recovery - the 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index
Register here to join Sharan Burrow ITUC General Secretary; Karen Curtis Deputy Director International Labour Organisation; Japhet Moyo Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary; Mary Robinson First woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Rebecca Sy former Cathay Dragon Union Leader and Lee Cheuk Yan Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions General Secretary at the launch of the 2020 ITUC Global Rights.
Thursday 18th June at 1500 – 1615 Central European Summer Time
The coronavirus pandemic has been used by some governments to increase attacks on the rights of working people, according to the 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index. However, the Rights Index also shows threats to workers, our economies and democracy were already endemic before the Covid-19 disruption, with violations of workers' rights at a seven year high.
Join trade union activists and human rights defenders Sharan Burrow, Karen Curtis, Japhet Moyo, Mary Robinson, Rebeca Sy and Lee Cheuk Yan for a Zoom conversation on the deficit of human and labour rights and how the Rights Index can be used to build the new economic model the world needs as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic. The conversation will be on the record.
The Rights Index exposes a break down in the social contract that governments and employers have with working people, with a trend to restrict working rights through violations of collective bargaining, withholding the right to strike and excluding workers from unions.
The conversation will feature the key findings form the 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index - now in its seventh year – which analyses violations of workers’ rights in law and practice in 144 countries:
- 85 percent of countries have violated the right to strike
- 80 percent of countries have violated the right to collectively bargain
- the number of countries that impeded the registration of unions increased
- three new countries entered the list of ten worst countries for workers
- eight countries have improved ratings
- more countries denied or constrained freedom of speech.
To attend, please register by clicking this link. All attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions via the Q&A function on Zoom. The webinar will be in English, registration is essential, it will also be live streamed on the ITUC facebook page.
For those unable to attend the webinar a recording will be made available. Webinars on the 2020 ITUC Rights Index will be held in French and Spanish in the coming weeks. If you are interested in joining the French and Spanish webinar please contact Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken. with Rights Index in the subject.
Kind regards
Makbule Sahan
ITUC Legal Director