Global dispatches
UCU has a strong tradition of taking up issues at international and European level where they affect members' professional lives, and also working with partner organisations on solidarity and international development issues identified by the membership through UCU's democratic structures.
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2 March 2012
UCU writes to the Egyptian Embassy in London calling on Egyptian authorities to drop the charges against Kamal Abbas of the CTUWS in Egypt. Read the president's…
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2 March 2012
Find out more about the release of this Colombian trade unionist and academic. On 1 March 2012 Liliany Obando, a Colombian trade unionist and academic, was freed…
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7 January 2012
Trade unionists arrested after anti-austerity protests. On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Greek police arrested Nikos Photopoulos, president of the power workers'…
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4 June 2011
Dr Miguel Angel Beltrán, the most prominent 'prisoner of conscience' whose case UCU has taken up in recent years, has been absolved of all charges. UCU general…
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11 April 2011
Who is Miguel Beltrán? Dr Miguel Beltrán is a Colombian academic. He has been imprisoned since May 2009 accused of 'rebellion' and is currently detained in La Picota…
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