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15 Nov 2017
Press Release
ITF: ‘new era for fishers begins’
Johnny Hansen, chair of the ITF fisheries section, commented: “Fishers work in one of the most dangerous and often unpoliced professions in the world. Far too...
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15 Nov 2017
ITF unions pledge to push for fundamental change on child and forced labour
Governments, employers’ and workers’ representatives from 193 countries are attending the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour in...
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10 Nov 2017
Press Release
ITF supports challenge to Boskalis over crew replacement plans
The latest plans would lead to the likely removal of 20 Netherlands nationals and their replacement by agency workers from other countries. It brings back to life...
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27 Oct 2017
Press Release
ITF applauds ‘historic breakthrough’ on Qatar kafala
Following years of international campaigning against kafala – a form of indentured labour that in practice has equated to often slavelike treatment of workers –...
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27 Oct 2017
Another step forward for campaigning ITF as your elected representatives meet in Amsterdam
Your elected representatives from across the ITF’s regions, sections and departments met in Amsterdam to endorse the direction of the organisation in the run up...
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25 Oct 2017
Global unions criticise employers blocking UN progress on multinationals
The meeting, organised by the UN's human rights office on 25 October, is working on the elements of the proposed ‘international instrument to regulate, in...
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25 Oct 2017
ITF maritime labour lawyers drive legal agenda
Topics on the agenda included cabotage, abandonment, the fair treatment of seafarers facing criminal charges or investigation, and amendments to the Maritime Labour...
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25 Oct 2017
Seafarer’s remarkable life made into ITF film
It tells the story of how Shwe left Burma as a seafarer, but saw his life completely change as he took on a corrupt ship owner and was blacklisted for his...