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Article

20 Jan 2008

Author:
National Union of Public and General Employees [Canada]

Rampant violence against workers in Colombia, says AFL-CIO

As the Harper government proceeds with negotiating a Canada-Colombia-Peru Free Trade Agreement a new report from the United States indicates that little progress has been made in addressing human rights violations in the South American country... The report produced by the AFL-CIO is called Workers' Rights, Violence and Impunity in Colombia...This report reinforces a 2006 report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). In its annual survey of violations of trade union rights, the ITUC declared Colombia the most dangerous place in the world to be a union member.