Trade Union Congress
Nigeria enacts petroleum industry bill with sweeping pro-corporate reforms
The Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 has been heavily criticized by the host communities in the Niger Delta. The bill reduces the royalties paid by oil companies, sets the ground to privatize the state oil corporation, and makes way for monopolization of fuel imports
Lack of PPE, equipment may affect Ghana’s response to COVID-19
With over 2,700 cases of COVID-19, Ghana is the worst affected country in west Africa and the second-most affected in the sub-Saharan region after South Africa
Women trade unionists demand new deal to combat gender pay gap, other forms of discrimination
‘Sisters Standing Strong’ – the 2020 Women’s Conference of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in London was attended by 150 delegates representing 34 unions in the United Kingdom
- Iraqis protest “honor killing,” demand laws against domestic violence
- Anti-imperialists protest docking of US warship at Greek port
- Communists celebrate 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazis at Stalingrad
- Israeli occupation forces kill at least five Palestinians in a refugee camp in Jericho
- Sudan and Israel announce plans for a peace deal
