ITUC Global Rights Index 2025

This year’s Index reveals a stark and worsening global crisis for workers and unions. In 2025, average country ratings deteriorated in three out of five global regions, with Europe and the Americas recording their worst scores since the Index’s inception in 2014. Alarmingly, only seven out of 151 countries surveyed received the top-tier rating. The data shows a sharp escalation in violations of fundamental rights, including access to justice, the right to free speech and assembly, and the right to collective bargaining. The 2025 Index is an urgent call to action to resist this coup against democracy before irreparable damage is done. It is of essential interest to trade unionists, worker educators, researchers and labour academics.