Investors who profit as oil workers face repression
The companies that this month helped to jail trade union leader Nurbek Kushakbayev are linked, via Kazmunaigaz, Kazakhstan’s state-controlled oil…
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Free Nurbek Kushakbayev! Support independent workers’ organisation in Kazakhstan!
Trades unionists have launched an international campaign for the release of Nurbek Kushakbayev, who was jailed this month for his…
Kazakhstan: Union Leader Sentenced to Prison
The ITUC has denounced the sentencing of Nurbek Kushakbayev, Deputy Chairperson of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Kazakhstan,…
Three years imprisonment for documenting forced and child labor
Alternative Turkmenistan News (ATN) reporter Gaspar Matalaev remains imprisoned on false charges of fraud, despite his family’s hope that he…
Kazakhstan: Repression of Independent Trade Unions
The ITUC has written to the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to demand the release of imprisoned trade unionists and…
Kazakhstan: state threat to shut down independent trade unions
Kazakhstan’s main independent trade union confederation is fighting for its life, as a court reviews a “justice” ministry bid to…
Tajikistan: Migrant workers’ rights and the 2018 World Cup
On 26-27 August 2015 leaders and activists of the Building Materials Workers Union of Tajikistan came together from different regions…