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| International Confederation of Free Trade Unions | | | | indicators that is proposed for AI data, or as raw |
| publishes annual report about the violations of labor | | | | material for some broader set of indicators. Because |
| and union rights that is covering 148 countries and | | | | of type of data and the fact that they are mainly |
| territories. The organization is founded in 1949 and | | | | descriptive and record problems or their absence, it is |
| has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. | | | | not possible to use more sensitive scale then the one |
| Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak | | | | presented for AI. The scale could contain value of 0 |
| level associations. Association maintains close links | | | | for absence, 0.5 for the presence was that not |
| with different UN bodies and has consultative status | | | | widespread and not result of deliberate policy or |
| in some of them. The area of concern of this | | | | deliberate failure to prevent such events, and 1 |
| organization are the respect and defense of trade | | | | widespread occurrence or systematic occurrence by |
| union and workers' rights, the eradication of forced | | | | government institutions and government unwillingness |
| and child labor, the promotion of equal rights for | | | | to prevent it. |
| working women, the environment, education | | | | The indicators that could be used: |
| programs for trade unionists and encouragement of | | | | 1. The restrictions or obstacles on the right to strike |
| unionization of young workers. ICFTU annual report | | | | and demonstrations (legal restrictions and limitations |
| covers the area of labor rights violations and actions | | | | of different type and different types of obstacles |
| against trade unions that took place in the year of | | | | raised by employers like the threats of dismissal) |
| the report. Countries are divided into five regions: | | | | 2. Discrimination of trade union activists and unfair |
| Africa, Asia and Pacific, Americas, Middle East and | | | | dismissal (discrimination on the work place) |
| Europe. Reports are made by local affiliates of ICFTU. | | | | 3. Obstacles or restrictions to trade union organization |
| Summary statistics are given for different categories | | | | (legal restrictions and obstacles raised by employers |
| of violations of rights of workers and union activists | | | | or the state not based on the labor code) |
| related to trade union activities: | | | | 4. Harassment and violence against activists and |
| 1. Number of cases of deaths and assassinations | | | | violent suppression of strikes (of any sort and by |
| 2. Number of cases of beating and torture | | | | any actor) |
| 3. Number of cases of arrests and detentions | | | | 5. Arrest and detention of trade union activist and |
| 4. Number of cases of strikes and demonstrations | | | | workers; death and murder of trade union activists |
| repressed | | | | The scale that could be constructed would look like |
| 5. Number of cases of unfair dismissals | | | | this: |
| 6. Number of cases of government interference | | | | 1.0 indicates no presence of this type of violation. |
| 7. Number of cases of restrictive strike laws | | | | 2.0.5 indicates that the presence was not widespread |
| Main body of the report are country reports that are | | | | and not result of deliberate policy or deliberate failure |
| organized into regional summaries that give brief | | | | to prevent such events. |
| picture of the regional situation and individual country | | | | 1 indicated widespread occurrence, systematic |
| reports that can be substantially different in their | | | | occurrence by government forces and government |
| form. Since the report register only violations the | | | | unwillingness to prevent it. |
| focus and content of report vary sharply from one | | | | The countries included in the report divided by |
| case to the other, and so does the length of the | | | | regions are: |
| report, depending on the type of violations observed. | | | | In the Americas: Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, |
| Like AI and HRW some reports only mention general | | | | Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, |
| data about violations and some go into more detailed | | | | Dominican, Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, |
| descriptions. One of the problems that require care | | | | Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, |
| with the use of these reports is that some policy | | | | Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St Vincent and Grenadines, |
| measures of governments are presented as rights | | | | Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Venezuela. |
| violations although they are conducted within the law. | | | | In Asia: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burma |
| Country reports are not prepared according to a | | | | (Myanmar), Brunei, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, |
| common standard and methodology, so, like AI and | | | | India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Laos, |
| HRW, they do not have common indicators of | | | | Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, New Zealand, North |
| violations and not even common subsections. But in a | | | | Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon |
| large number of the reports, though not in all, there | | | | Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, |
| are sections that are dealing with the restrictions or | | | | Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam. |
| with obstacles on the right to strike, legal restrictions | | | | In Europe: Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, |
| on the right to strike and trade unions activity, | | | | Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, |
| discrimination of trade union activists and their | | | | Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, |
| dismissal, obstacles to trade union organization, | | | | Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, |
| harassment and violence against activists, arrests of | | | | Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, Yugoslavia. |
| activists and observance of collective agreements. | | | | In the Middle East and North Africa: Bahrain, Iran, |
| The data the report provides are almost entirely | | | | Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, |
| descriptive. The report is accessible on the web site | | | | Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, |
| of ICFTU. | | | | United Arab Emirates, Yemen. |
| The data that can be found in this report can be | | | | |