The Musicians Union of Ireland (MUI) is calling on its members to attend a protest in support of the call for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest...
Israeli navy opens heavy fire at Gazan fishermen
Israeli naval forces opened fire towards Palestinian fishing boats, on Sunday morning, off the coast of Khan Younis, in the southern the besieged Gaza Strip.
Dublin National Union of Journalists to Support Eurovision Boycott
The Irish Campaign to Boycott the 2019 Eurovision in Israel, welcomes the motion passed by the Dublin Broadcasting Branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) on January 29th ,whereby it states it “will support any member, working in RTÉ or elsewhere, who chooses to exercise a conscientious objection towards involvement in coverage of the song contest.”
Settlers to Palestinian laborers: ‘Work with human rights groups and lose your job’
Flyers posted in villages near Gush Etzion warn Palestinian laborers they will be banned from nearby settlements should they cooperate with anti-occupation groups.
ITUC statement on 50 years of occupation
Three generations of Palestinians have now suffered under the occupation, which continues to flagrantly deny their fundamental rights and deprives them of the opportunity to build better lives for themselves and for coming generations.
Norway’s largest trade union endorses boycott
Norway’s largest trade union body has voted in favor of economic, cultural, and academic boycott of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. In response, Tel Aviv said that the union “placed itself shoulder to shoulder with the worst enemies of Israel."
A new trade union established in Gaza
“It was necessary to establish a union for female hairdressers and beauty salons workers, as they are exposed to numerous violations of their rights and suffer from bad working conditions."
A woman’s place is in her union
Women in Palestine, as anywhere across the globe, are subjected to, and daily resisting, an intricate, mutually reinforcing web of state, social, economic and domestic violence and oppression, continuously violating their rights. The burden of Israeli occupation weighs therefore on many more layers on the daily lives of Palestinian woman than their male counterparts.
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