4th Regional Conference - SUPPORT TO THE NATIONAL UNION OF AFGHANISTAN WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES (NUAWE)

In this resolution, the 4th ITUC-AP Regional Conference expresses deep concern over the attack of the head office of the National Union of Afghanistan Workers and Employees (NUAWE) and its other 16 properties by the Afghanistan Government with heavily armed police and security forces pursuant to a presidential decree, confiscation of all properties, assets, equipment and others, cancellation of the legal license, and the freezing of the union bank accounts.

The ITUC-AP Regional Conference extends its full support to the NUAWE and the working people of Afghanistan in their struggle for existence and requests all affiliates to send protest letters to the Government of Afghanistan with copies to Afghan mission in their respective countries, to invoke further the ILO supervisory mechanism on the complaint against the Government of Afghanistan, and to lodge a complaint against the Government of Afghanistan with the IMF, World Bank, ADB, EU, the USA, and the UN.