International Human Rights Day 76 Years After the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Is the ideal still universal?

Trade Unions at the Heart of Global Efforts to Eradicate this Crime Convention No. 29 on Forced Labour defines it as "any work or service exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily." This convention, ratified by 181 countries, is complemented by a comprehensive normative arsenal aimed at combating and eradicating this scourge. These include the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105), the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), and the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143).

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The Tunisian Radio and Television Workers' Syndicate has threatened to go on strike on 17 and 18 December.

The General Media Federation denounced the police repression of the sit-in organised by journalists in charge of communication in the ministries.