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ICFTU launches Online Labour Art Gallery for Human Rights Day
Brussels December 10 1998 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU has launched Labour Works, an Online Art Gallery which is exhibiting a series of posters and book covers, all of them from original artwork, which all illustrate ICFTU campaigns or reports, to mark Human Rights Day.
The 13 illustrations are all taken from artwork, which was commissioned for reports or campaigns which the ICFTU has carried out during the last 10 years. They tell of child labour, apartheid in South Africa, women workers, globalisation, and export processing zones.
Each illustration tells a story, linking to a report, or the description of a campaign. For example, a poster "Investing in apartheid" issued by the ICFTU in 1988, was part of the union's ongoing world-wide campaign against apartheid in South Africa. An illustration of child workers was used for the cover of a "No Time to Play" on child labour, and links to the book itself.
The Labour Works OnLine Art Gallery marks 1998 as a double anniversary year. December 10 1998, is the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, and 1998 has been the 50th Anniversary year of ILO Convention 87, on Freedom of Association. During 1998, the ICFTU has being organising a number of activities to mark Convention 87's anniversary, including asking governments to ratify the Convention.
During 1999, which is the ICFTU 50th Anniversary, the ICFTU will be building up an art gallery illustrating 50 years of trade union activity round the world.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
Boulevard Emile Jacqmain 155, B - 1210 Brussels, Belgium. For more information
please contact: Luc Demaret on: 00 322 224 0212 - press@icftu.org