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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: LABOR: International Solidarity: Burma/Poland;SAfrica;Yugo;Turkey
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- *Subject: LABOR: International Solidarity: Burma/Poland;SAfrica;Yugo;Turkey
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- Topic 201 TELEX NEWS
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- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.org>
- Subject: TELEX NEWS
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- /* Written 2:20 pm Aug 12, 1992 by gn:geonet in cdp:geo2.its */
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- INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU)
- FAX:218.84. 15 PHONE 217.80.85 TELEX 26785 BRUSSELS
- CONTACT: INFO DIVISION
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- Telex News
- No.25, August 12, 1992
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- POLAND: Poland's Solidarnosc has called on President
- Walesa and Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka not to
- supply military equipment to Burma, after learning of
- the Polish government's plans to deliver military
- helicopters to Burma. Acting on information received
- from the underground Trade Union Confederation of Burma, the
- ICFTU told its Polish affiliate that Burma's ruling
- military regime planned to use the Polish-made
- helicopters against pro-democracy forces in the
- country. Solidarnosc has said that "the changes
- which have taken place in Poland make it unfitting
- for the country to support any kind of military
- regime".
-
- SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa's National Council of
- Trade Unions (Nactu) has condemned the murder of
- union activist Cde Philemon Ntombela on August 4 by
- South African security forces. Mr Ntombela, of the
- Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers Union of South
- Africa, was driving in a union vehicle when the
- security forces opened fire on him without warning.
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- FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: The ICFTU and the European TUC
- expressed their horror at reports of gross human
- rights abuses in the former Yugoslavia. In a joint
- press release on August 7, the confederations called
- on the international community to take swift action
- to bring to an end the reported atrocities in
- Serbian-run detention camps in Bosnia. The two
- confederations have condemned reports that the
- Serbian authorities are using dismissals, evictions
- and denying children access to schools to force
- Moslem and Croat workers to leave Serbia. Recalling
- that such trade union rights' abuses were not new to
- Serbia's communist authorities, ICFTU General
- Secretary Enzo Friso recalled that ethnic Albanian
- workers in Kosovo have suffered similar persecution
- since 1990. The ILO recently confirmed ICFTU
- allegations of wide-ranging discrimination in
- employment and education against ethnic Albanian
- workers.
-
- PERU: The fate of missing Peruvian journalist Pedro
- Yauri Bustamante is still unclear, according to the
- ICFTU's Regional Organisation for the Americas
- (Orit). Mr Bustamante, a radio journalist in the
- city of Huacho, was last seen by his father on June
- 24, when he was abducted from his home by four men in
- military uniform. ICFTU affiliates have been asked to
- call on the Peruvian authorities to reveal the
- whereabouts of Mr Bustamante. In Lima, the Peruvian
- authorities have started a campaign to get rid of 400
- journalists, members of the Fenatrav union, at the
- state broadcasting company PTP. The unionists have
- called for international support, saying that the
- move is aimed at destroying the union.
-
- GERMANY: The Turkish authorities have refused to
- issue an exit visa to three trade union leaders from
- the Turkish national centre, Disk. Mirz Arabaci,
- Tayyar Elmas and Mustafa Karadayi were to travel to
- Germany on August 5-9 on the invitation of the German
- national centre, the DGB. The DGB has protested to
- the Turkish authorities about their refusal to let
- the unionists travel to Germany.
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- From: INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU)
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