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22 October 1999 |
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InternationalPakistan Military Urged to Protect Workers' RightsBy ICTU Online
The ICFTU the world's global trade union, representing 124 million workers in 143 countries is also demanding that General Musharraf personally guarantees that the present phase of military rule will not be taken as an opportunity to further curtail the legitimate rights' of workers and of their representative organisations. The ICFTU has for years denounced successive Pakistani governments for condoning multiple violations of workers' and other fundamental human rights which, it says "stem from a fundamentally corrupt feudal system which rests on a strategic alliance of employers with bureaucracy, politicians and other privileged sectors of Pakistani society." In recent times, the ICFTU has in particular condemned the militarisation of the Water and Power Development Authority, where unions rights were suspended earlier this year. There also been restrictions on the free exercise of trade union rights at major industrial infrastructure projects, including a major building project on the Indus river at Ghazi Barotha. General Musharraf led an army coup which deposed the elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, seized control from the civilian authorities and took effective, direct control over the country. The army has ruled in Pakistan for 25 years of its 52-year history.
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