IFJ urges Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed Serag and all imprisoned journalists

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Egypt Three journalists released from jail, after union campaign [IFJ] 07-01-2025

Egypt IFJ urges Egyptian President to release 24 journalists in jail [IFJ] 23-12-2024

Egypt Following strike, Samanoud Textiles Company seeks to fire union leader [Mada Masr] 22-10-2024

Egypt IFJ calls for the release of Ahmed Bayoumi and all imprisoned journalists [IFJ] 11-10-2024

Egypt Urgent action: solidarity with Egyptian textile worker Hisham al-Banna [MENA SN] 06-10-2024

Egypt Two journalists arrested and forcibly disappeared within a week [IFJ] 25-07-2024

Egypt Seafarer free after 12 years [ITF] 03-06-2024

Egypt Textile workers released from jail following LabourStart campaign [CTUWS] 29-05-2024

Egypt The Mahalla textile strike - interview with Ahmad Badawy [LabourStart Podcasts] 03-04-2024

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IFJ urges Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed Serag and all imprisoned journalists 2025-01-21 [IFJ]

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Three journalists released from jail, after union campaign 2025-01-07 [IFJ]

IFJ urges Egyptian President to release 24 journalists in jail 2024-12-23 [IFJ]

Following strike, Samanoud Textiles Company seeks to fire union leader 2024-10-22 [Mada Masr]

IFJ calls for the release of Ahmed Bayoumi and all imprisoned journalists 2024-10-11 [IFJ]

Urgent action: solidarity with Egyptian textile worker Hisham al-Banna 2024-10-06 [MENA SN]

10 workers still in custody after authorities conduct arrests amid ongoing Gharbiya factory strike for minimum wage 2024-08-28 [MADA]

Two journalists arrested and forcibly disappeared within a week 2024-07-25 [IFJ]

Seafarer free after 12 years 2024-06-03 [ITF]

Textile workers released from jail following LabourStart campaign 2024-05-29 [CTUWS]

The Mahalla textile strike - interview with Ahmad Badawy 2024-04-03 [LabourStart Podcasts]

Textile workers strike ActNOW! 2024-03-20 [Solidarity - Eric Lee]

Solidarity with arrested textile workers in Egypt ActNOW! 2024-03-18 [MENA SN]

Strike by female textile workers followed by repression - support the online campaign ActNOW! 2024-03-13 [CTUWS]

Woman journalist detained and released on bail 2024-03-12 [IFJ]

Thousands of workers strike for higher wages at Ghazl al-Mahalla factory 2024-02-25 [Mada ]

Kenya Egyptian Maritime Workers Union Visit to Kenya 2024-02-25 [COTU]

Independent Egyptian Trade Unions Launches Solidarity of Trade Unions Federation 2023-12-12 [https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid06JoiXBLFJoXm]

Independent Egyptian Trade Unions Launches Solidarity of Trade Unions Federation 2023-12-12 [https://www.ctuws.com/en/content/towards-genuine-representation-]

Palestine Letter from Independent Trade Unions of Egypt to the Director General of the ILO 2023-11-14 [CTUWS]

Palestine In an interview with the Director of ILO in Cairo: Independent Unions protest the organization’s statement regarding Palestine 2023-11-14 [CTUWS]

Stop the Genocide in Palestine .. an appeal to the international labor movement 2023-10-26 [CTUWS]

Report for the period from 1l4l2022 to 31l8l2023 On the FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO ORGANISE CONVENTION, 1948 (No. 87) EGYPT 2023-09-11 [CTUWS]

UK London protesters support striking BBC Cairo journalists 2023-08-31 [IFJ]

IFJ stands in solidarity with BBC Cairo journalists 2023-08-27 [IFJ]

Journalist released after four years in pre-trial detention 2023-05-03 [IFJ]

The absent voice of workers: Report of violations against trade union freedoms in 2022 2023-03-15 [CTUWS]

Egypt Will frank talk in Kinshasa lead to success at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh? 2022-10-27 [Equal Times]

The WFTU participates and addressed the 48th Arab Labor Conference 2022-09-20 [WFTU]

IFJ supports call from human rights organisations to release all imprisoned journalists 2022-08-03 [IFJ]

Home delivery workers: Toward integration in the formal economy? 2022-07-31 [Ahram]

IFJ calls for release of all imprisoned journalists 2022-05-28 [IFJ]

Two women journalists targeted 2022-04-28 [IFJ]

Nile Linen workers suspend strike to protest bonus cuts pending negotiations 2022-04-18 [MadaMasr]

GTUBWW holds general assembly amidst extraordinary challenges 2022-03-14 [BWI]

GTUBWW holds general assembly amidst extraordinary challenges 2022-03-12 [BWI]

Labour in the revolutionary struggle 2022-02-21 [New Frame]

Europe Brussels to host biggest jailer of journalists in Africa 2022-02-17 [IFJ]

Country faces unprecedented labour rights violations 2022-02-09 [MEMO]

IOM awards BWI trade union leader for fighting for migrant workers' rights 2022-02-04 [BWI]

IOM awards BWI trade union leader for fighting for migrant workers' rights 2022-02-01 [BWI]

Italy Italy accuses Egyptian security of Giulio Regeni's murder 2021-12-02 [Al Jazeera]

Fisher nets €20,000 award after being underpaid, overworked - but deficiencies in Irish law persist for migrant workers 2021-11-25 [ITF]

Authorities fail to protect striking workers from reprisals 2021-11-25 [Amnesty International]

Egypt Italy judge suspends trial of Egyptians charged after student killing 2021-10-18 [Reuters]

A dangerous new law in Egypt allows for the dismissal of any public employee who opposes the regime 2021-10-11 [Equal Times]

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This month in labour history

9-02-2011 Strikes begin to spread across Egypt, as new independent unions emerge during the anti-Mubarak movement [more]

11-02-2011 After three days of spreading strikes, President Hosni Mubarak is finally forced to resign [more]

21-02-1946 General strike and demonstrations in the big cities. Several dead and a hundred wounded in Cairo, where English troops shoot at the crowd heading to Ismailia square. [more]