Kseniya Halubovich A large crowd protesting in Belarus. Voicing deep concern over detention and arrests of trade unionists in Belarus, the head of the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) called on President Alexander Lukashenko to ensure a climate free from violence and intimidation against peacefully protesting workers. According to ILO, six trade unionists were detained by the […]
UN News/Jing Zhang A street scene in Amman, Jordan. Jordan must reverse the decision to close a 140,000-strong teachers’ union and detain its leaders, independent UN human rights experts said on Wednesday, while also urging the authorities to lift gag orders prohibiting public discussion of the case. The Government closed the Jordanian Teachers’ Syndicate last month, reportedly in retaliation for criticizing the […]
Unsplash/Jana Shnipelson Woman in Minsk, Belarus. Closely following the developments in Belarus, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement on Friday underlining the importance of enabling all Belarusians to “exercise their civil and political rights”. Following the announcement that authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko – who has ruled since 1994 – had a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election, […]
UN News/Daniel Johnson – Michele Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. (file) The flow of free information is “crucial” in a democratic society, the UN human rights chief said on Wednesday, spotlighting the landlocked eastern European nation of Belarus, “especially in a context of crisis and social unrest”. Following the announcement by the […]
Millions of people around the world have been working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic and now experts are asking whether this “business as unusual” could be the future of work, at least for those people whose job doesn’t require them to be tied to a particular location. UN News spoke to Susan Hayter, a […]
ILO Photo/Marcel CrozetThe COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a disproportionate effect on young workers according to the ILO. Further evidence of the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on the global job market has emerged in a new study by the UN labour agency, which on Wednesday said that more than one in six young people […]