Iraq: Cooperation delivers quality training for Iraqi teachers
A long planned programme for training and development of teacher trade unionism in Iraq has begun under the expert guidance of NASUWT, an EI affiliate in Britain. for more information please  read this: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=1303&theme=development&final=iraq

‘Essentially there are three classes of women here in Kurdistan. Women who are highly educated and who are in professional jobs; women who work in agriculture or factories who are paid low and work very hard and whose wages do not always go into their own pocket, but into the pockets of men; and then there are the traditional workers and artisans who have a lot of skills in traditional industries and handicrafts which we really need to preserve.’ For more information please click here: http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-17949-f0.cfm

The ICEM Executive Committee, on the second day of its annual deliberations 27 May, denounced Iraq’s government for continued failure to enact a draft labour law, as well as numerous and current prohibitions against trade union activities. For more information please click here: http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3809-ICEM-Executive-Condemns-Repressive-Union-Actions-by-Iraq

A historic event took place early this month in the northern Iraq region of Kurdistan: the region’s two labour federations, traditional tied to Kurdistan’s two political parties, merged, creating a single voice for workers in northern Iraq.  For more information please click here: http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3811-The-Two-Trade-Union-Federations-in-Iraqi-Kurdistan-Unite-Merge

The ITF has condemned the heavy-handed measures taken by harbour corporation managers to disperse a peaceful demonstration by Iraqi port workers. For more information please click here: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/4594

Early Day Motion

EDM 192
 

LABOUR LAW IN IRAQ
09.06.2010
Anderson, David
That this House supports the work of the new and independent trade union movement in Iraq; deplores the barbaric terrorist attack on a textile factory in Hilla in May 2010 which killed 40 workers and injured dozens of other people; agrees with the Trades Union Congress that this is a tragic reminder of just how urgently Iraq needs a stable, non-sectarian government which can put in place the laws and policies to enable ordinary Iraqis to live and work in dignity, peace and freedom; and extends its solidarity to the General Federation of Iraqi Workers in its efforts, and those of many others around the world, to urge the Iraqi government and Parliament to overturn the continuing ban on public sector trade unions and implement a fair and just labour law. For  more information please click here: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=41115&SESSION=905

“Iraq is at a tipping point,” Abdullah Muhsin told a fringe meeting at the world trade union congress in Vancouver today. Speaking about the campaign for a just labour law in Iraq, the international representative of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers said: “We have one of the most notorious labour laws in the world.” For More in formation please click here: http://www.strongerunions.org/2010/06/23/world-unions-back-iraqi-unions/

Report on Wilton Park Conference WP784
PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN CONFLICT-COUNTRIES: THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
in association with THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION
Monday 6

IRAQ INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES (IIST)
Hosted By London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
INVITES YOU TO A WORKSHOP ON
DEBATING THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF IRAQ:
WHAT SHOULD BE AMENDED BEFORE REFERENDUM?
The IIST is organizing a workshop/conference on the draft constitution submitted to the Iraq Constituent Assembly. Advocates of democracy, pluralism, federalism, bills of rights, women

THE IRAQ INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES (IIST) invites you to a workshop:
DEBATING THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF IRAQ:
WHAT SHOULD BE AMENDED BEFORE REFERENDUM?
9-10 September 2005-08-17
London University,
SOAS, Brunei Building