ITUC GLOBAL RIGHTS INDEX

The examples are numerous. However, Colombia, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras,
Indonesia and the Ukraine stood out last year in terms of the types and number
of instances of violence documented. With 20 murders in 2015 Colombia is
again the country with the highest number of murders in any country. Over
2,500 unionists have been murdered in the past 20 years, more than in the rest
of the world combined. Violence against independent trade union activism was
also recorded in Egypt. The disappearance and cruel torture and killing of Guilio
Regeni is an exemplary case. In June 2015, soldiers opened fire on workers,
who gathered in front of management’s office after a worker was seriously
wounded in a workplace accident, killing one and wounding three others. On
24 September 2015, trade unionist Mynor Rolando Ramos Castillo, a member
of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Municipalidad de Jalapa (SITRAMJ), was
murdered in Guatemala. On 17 June 2015, Héctor Orlando Martínez, president
of Branch 6 of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Autónoma de
Honduras (SITRAUNAH) at the Pacific Coast Regional University Centre (CURLP-
UNAH) in the city of Choluteca, was killed. Anatolyi Mukhamedzhanov, the head
of the Primary Trade Union at the Novovolynska mine in the Ukraine was beaten
up in the office of the mining company’s director, on 3 February 2016. Workers
in Indonesia were violently attacked in all parts of the country in October 2015,
including in North Sumatra were seven activists were hospitalised as a result.
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