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news 29 Sep 2020

Domestic violence is a workplace issue says ground-breaking Indian study

Report launched by Indian transport unions along with other Indian unions today gives an unprecedented view of how domestic violence impacts the working lives of women workers in India, and how experiences of domestic violence extend directly into their work and workplaces. The study provides the

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Publication 28 Sep 2020

Impact of Domestic Violence in Workplaces in India

This report provides an unprecedented view of how domestic violence impacts the working lives of women workers, within and beyond transport sectors in India. It is based on survey data collected from October 2019 and May 2020 from 15,561 workers from across a range of India's employment sectors aged

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news 24 Sep 2020

Beyond the limit of safe shipping - ITF General Secretary’s UN address

Speech by ITF General Secretary Stephen Cotton at the UN High-Level Side Event on Covid-19 and Maritime Crew Changes, 24 September 2020.

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news 24 Sep 2020

Victory for justice: Docker Rio Wijaya freed

Yesterday we received the tremendous news that Rio Wijaya has been found not guilty by an Indonesian court after he was assaulted and wrongly charged for attacking his employer Hutchison online last year. The ITF Dockers family and Rio’s union, the SP JICT, have not wavered one bit throughout this

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news 24 Sep 2020

Crew change crisis risks becoming forced labour epidemic as tragedy hits six-month mark on World Maritime Day

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has slammed government inaction to alleviate the crew change crisis, declaring that current Covid-19 border and travel restrictions risk creating an epidemic of forced labour and modern slavery as seafarers are increasingly forced to stay onboard

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news 22 Sep 2020

Graham Stevenson

Message from ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton: It is my sad duty to inform you that Graham Stevenson left us on International Workers’ Day, on May 1 at age 70. Graham was the ITF’s European vice president in our Executive Board and the president of European Transport Workers Federation (ETF)

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Publication 20 Sep 2020

Beyond the Limit

Beyond the Limit exposes how corner-cutting associated with the Covid-19 pandemic has placed too much risk in the international shipping system.

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news 20 Sep 2020

Covid corner-cutting will lead to deaths, ‘environmental catastrophe’ – new shipping report

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has issued a stark warning that if temporary short cuts adopted in the industry during the Covid-19 pandemic continue or become permanent, then there will be a rise in shipping accidents and environmental disasters. The predictions are contained

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news 18 Sep 2020

ITF welcomes justice for Palestinian victims of ‘hate crime’

An Israeli court has sentenced the murderer of a Palestinian toddler and his parents to three life sentences, with the court labelling the killings ‘carefully planned and driven by an extremist ideology and racism’. In July 2015, the Dawabsheh family home in the West Bank was subject to an arson

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news 17 Sep 2020

SG-STAR Fund: First global tripartite initiative to support countries for crew change

Joint release from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC), International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Singapore Shipping Association (SSA), Singapore Maritime Officers’ Union (SMOU) and

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Domestic violence is a workplace issue says ground-breaking Indian study

Impact of Domestic Violence in Workplaces in India

Beyond the limit of safe shipping - ITF General Secretary’s UN address

Victory for justice: Docker Rio Wijaya freed

Crew change crisis risks becoming forced labour epidemic as tragedy hits six-month mark on World Maritime Day

Graham Stevenson

Beyond the Limit

Covid corner-cutting will lead to deaths, ‘environmental catastrophe’ – new shipping report

ITF welcomes justice for Palestinian victims of ‘hate crime’

SG-STAR Fund: First global tripartite initiative to support countries for crew change

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