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HLPF 2019 - Trade unions' present six action points to achieve SDG 8 successfully by 2030
Jul 17 2019, 15:20 ITUC
Trade unions participated in the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) side event that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) organised to launch its report “Time to Act for SDG 8: Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity”. Paola Simonetti, ITUC's Deputy Director of the Department of Economic and Social Policies, participated in the event as panelist, along with Spain's Minister of Labour Magdalena Valerio , ILO's Director General Guy Ryder, and the Director …- International condemnation as repression deepens in Kazakhstan ITUC The ITUC has harshly condemned the sentencing of Kazakhstan trade union leader Erlan Baltabay. Efforts to improve freedom of association for working people are once again jeopardised; but the country's new leadership could still intervene. Erlan Baltabay, the leader of the Oil and Energy workers' …
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- HLPF 2019 - Trade union's statement in session on financing the SDGs ITUC Silvana Cappuccio, CGIL took the floor on behalf of trade unions during the session "Financing the SDGs: moving from words to action". In her intervention, Cappuccio did not pull any punches as she confronted governments' positive description of "innovative financing" with what these mechanisms …
- HLPF 2019 - Trade unions and civil society are crucial for the successful implementation, follow-up and review of the Agenda 2030 ITUC On Thursday the 11th, the morning HLPF Plenary focused on the perspectives of civil society on how to strengthen the monitoring and review mechanisms of the Agenda 2030. Yvonne O'Callaghan, from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, spoke on behalf of the ITUC, find her statement below. Yvonne …