| Take action to free Chinese labour activists |
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june 25, 2007 Take action to free Chinese labour activists The IHLO, the Hong Kong liaison office the international trade union recently started a campaign to free imprisoned Chinese labour activists. The campaign calls upon the Chinese government to "Keep it Olympic promise" and asks people to sign on to a letter to Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, requesting his intervention to secure the immediate release of all those currently detained for their peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of association. Find some more information on the campaign below, or go directly to: http://www.ihlo.org/prisoners/en/ to sign the letter. The campaign has highlighted four cases of workers and their supporters and produced a set of postcards to send on their behalf to the Chinese authorities, which can be downloaded here: http://www.ihlo.org/prisoners/en/action.php Thanks for your support! CHINA'S OLYMPIC PROMISE Following China's successful bid for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, both the Chinese authorities and International Olympic Games' officials pledged that the Beijing Olympic Games would be a catalyst for the improvement of human rights in China.
THE OLYMPIC PROMISE AND LABOUR STANDARDS IN CHINA The international community hoped that China's Olympic promise would end China's ongoing violation of fundamental human rights, including the use of forced labour, the denial of freedom of association and the denial of the right to collectively bargain. In particular, it was hoped that the significant number of labour activists who have been imprisoned for no other reason than trying to exercise basic workers' rights would be released. CHINA'S BROKEN PROMISE What has really happened? To date, China has failed to live up to its Olympic promise. Basic workers' rights continue to be violated and labour activists continue to be imprisoned. A significant number of labour activists remain in prison for their peaceful actions to defend labour rights. Some of these have been in prison since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. In fact, ever since China's Olympic promise to improve human rights, more labour activists have been detained. Some have sentences extending well past ever the next Olympics in 2012. 
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CCC Calls on Primark to Take Positive Action for Home Workers and ChildrenCCC Calls on Primark to Take Positive Action for Home Workers and ChildrenThe UK Clean Clothes Campaign, Labour Behind the Label, is calling on Primark to reverse its decisionto cut and run from three Indian suppliers. A BBC Panorama investigation on June has uncovered the wide spread use of subcontracting in the manufacture of embroidered goods, ... Tuesday, 24 June 2008 Read more |
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