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Toilet rights are human rights: Transport Workers’ Sanitation Charter
On World Toilet Day, 19 November 2019, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is launching a Transport Workers’ Sanitation Charter, because toilet rights are human rights. The charter
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Women’s Advocate Programme expands
The ITF women’s department has joined with affiliates in Bogotá and Buenos Aires to plan the expansion of the ITF Women’s Advocate Programme to Colombia and Argentina It is part of an ongoing project
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Skills workshop for women in public transport
Following the groundbreaking ITF research on the impact of the future of work for women in public transport, the first three-day skills development workshop was held this week in Mexico City . Women
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The future is public transport in Mexico
#OurPublicTransport was the theme when 25 participants from five public transport unions from Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico got together. The activists met in Mexico City on 26 September and
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Women to the fore on World Maritime Day
“Empowering women in the maritime community” was the theme of this year’s World Maritime Day, celebrated on 26 September.
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ITF hails historic convention
The first ever international standard on violence and harassment in the world of work has been adopted at the centenary International Labour Conference (ILC) of the International Labour Organization
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Ending violence and harassment against women in the world of work
The fight to end violence against women transport workers reaches a critical point this week with the world’s governments, employer and worker representatives due to regulate on violence and
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Activist climbs Everest in ILO convention campaign
An activist from the ITF-affiliated Union of Trekking, Travel, Rafting and Airlines Workers Nepal (UNITRAV), has climbed Mount Everest to fly a flag calling for an International Labour Organization
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Women transport workers step up action
Meeting for the first time since their election at Congress in 2018, members of the ITF women transport workers' committee have confirmed #ThisIsOurWorldToo. The committee – women transport workers'