20th Regional General Council - TRADE UNION REPRESSION IN AFGHANISTAN

In this resolution, the 20th ITUC-AP Regional General Council Meeting expresses deep concern over trade union repression that started with the attack by the Afghanistan government of the head office of the National Union of Afghanistan Workers, Employees (NUAWE) and its 16 other properties on 21 April, 2018. It denounces the expropriation of NUAWE’s legitimately acquired properties to pressurise the union and undermine its operations and activities.

It urges the ITUC and the ITUC-AP to monitor the projects implemented and funds disbursed by the international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the ADB, in Afghanistan. The ITUC-AP demands the Government of Afghanistan to, among other things,  return all the seized properties to NUAWE, unfreeze the union’s bank accounts, and immediately renew the legal registration license of NUAWE.