ITUC Global Rights Index 2024
THEME: Mobilising for socio, economic and political campaigns
TITLE: ITUC Global Rights Index 2024
PUBLISHED BY: International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
WHO IS THIS FOR: Now in its 11th year, the Global Rights Index offers an important status report on the worldwide struggle to defend and exercise core pillars of democracy: the fundamental rights and freedoms of working people and trade unions.
As it attests, there are clear signs that governments and companies are accelerating their efforts to trample on these basic rights that underpin the very nature of democracy and the rule of law.
In the past year, almost nine out of 10 countries worldwide violated the right to strike, while about eight in 10 countries denied workers the right to bargain collectively for better terms and conditions. In a deeply worrying development this year, 49% of countries arbitrarily arrested or detained trade union members, up from 46% in 2023, while more than four in 10 countries denied or constrained freedom of speech or assembly. These figures and trends reinforce a global picture in which hard-won democratic rights and civil liberties are under grave and relentless attack. Trade union leaders, policy makers, human rights activists and academics will find this publication useful.
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ITUC Global Rights Index 2024