groupes en action

See the webs of this worker’s Union: ICFTU in english, ICFTU en français, and ICFTU in spain. And see the sitemap. See the ICFTU also on wikipedia.

Read first: Annual Report 2006, about survey of violations of Trade Union Rights. (en Français, en Espanol, auf Deutsch).

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), was set up in 1949 and has 241 affiliated organisations in 156 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of 155 million, 40% of who are women.

It has three major regional organisations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas. It also maintains close links with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) (which includes all ICFTU European affiliates) and Global Union Federations, which link together national unions from a particular trade or industry at international level.

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Linked with Mireia Uranga Arakistain – Spain.

… the reality of Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre. Gernika Gogoratuz is a dynamic and independent centre which bearing social changes in mind, applies new mechanisms in maintaining its work on building the Culture of Peace.

Our history, the present, and the image of a future in positive peace guide us and encourage us to continue our work for sustainable and lasting peace. We also would like you to know that Gernika Gogoratuz is aware of the commitment toward society and responsibility required for its task of making its framework for a culture of peace publicly known. Please note that we are always open to your suggestions and will always be willing to offer you a hand whenever possible.

Gernika Gogoratuz is a Peace Research Centre. It was founded in 1987 in a unanimous decision by the Basque Parliament in remembrance of the 50th Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika.

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Linked with Akbar Ganji – Iran, and with Martin Ennals – England (1927-1991).

Understanding conflict. Building peace. International Alert is an independent peacebuilding organisation working in over 20 countries and territories around the world. Our dual approach involves working directly with people affected by violent conflict as well as at government, EU and UN levels to shape both policy and practice in building sustainable peace. International Alert was established in 1986 by a group of human rights advocates led by the former Secretary General of Amnesty International, Martin Ennals, in response to growing concerns expressed by those working in international development agencies, human rights organisations and those involved in the issues of ethnic conflict and genocide. This group recognised that the denial of human rights often led to internal armed conflicts which, in turn, further undermined efforts to protect individual and collective human rights and to promote sustainable development.

Contact.

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Linked with Joy DeGruy-Leary – USA, with European banks and Africa’s wealth, with The Restoration of Human Abilities Association ROHA, and with The Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome PTSS.

The GAC was created at the historic Afrikans and Afrikan Descendants World Conference Against Racism (AAD WCAR) held in Bridgetown, Barbados (2002). The Global Afrikan Congress is dedicated to the ongoing Reparations struggle. The immediate priorities, strategies and recommendations on how to address the specific social, economic and political problems were addressed and are contained in our premier document, the Bridgetown Protocol.

This organization presently works with other partnering Black communities for the benefit of the global Afrikan community. The goal of this organization and its partners if the compensation for the enslavement and inhuman treatment of Afrikans and their descendants, and other less obvious effects of colonial domination and its attendant racism. Chattel slavery, the enslavement and torture of Afrikans and their children is, always was, and always will be a Crime Against Humanity. This event is indeed the worst crime in all of human history.

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Linked with Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia, with Women Peacemakers Program WWP, and with Gender as a Tool in Building Peace, with Women defending Peace Conference, and with Somalia – profiles, facts and reports.
SSWC was founded in 1992 by a group of Somali women from all sections of the community, as an urgent imperative to address the needs of Somalia’s women and children, regardless of ethnic and geopolitical divisions. Based in Kenya, they work as a non-governmental humanitarian and development organisation with a focus on improving women’s rights and promoting their participation in building peace. They run training workshops on Conflict Management as well as organising an annual literacy programme. In addition, they provide practical support to some of the country’s most vulnerable and marginalised women through rights awareness workshops and campaigns to end Female Genital Mutilation and early and forced marriage. Working with disadvantaged and displaced women, SSWC’s programme of community rehabilitation and income generating projects helps women move out poverty and begin to play a full and active part in their own lives and that of their communities and country. (See this and others on womenkind.org.uk).