ITUC GLOBAL RIGHTS INDEX
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The 2016 <strong>ITUC</strong> Global Rights Index<br />
The International Trade Union Confederation (<strong>ITUC</strong>) is a confederation of national<br />
trade union centres, each of which links trade unions of that particular country.<br />
It was established on 1 November 2006, bringing together the organisations<br />
which were formerly affiliated to the ICFTU and WCL (both now dissolved) as<br />
well as a number of national trade union centres which had no international<br />
affiliation at the time. The new Confederation has 333 affiliated organisation in<br />
162 countries and territories on all five continents, with a membership of<br />
180 million, 40 per cent of whom are women. It is also a partner in “Global<br />
Unions” together with the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD and<br />
the Global Union Federations (GUFs) which link together national unions from<br />
a particular trade or industry at international level. The <strong>ITUC</strong> has specialised<br />
offices in a number of countries around the world, and has General Consultative<br />
Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
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