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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4 November 2016
UCU has joined forces with Amnesty UK on a new campus-based campaign called Truth for Giulio Regeni. Giulio was a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, who…
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22 April 2016
UCU has written to the Turkish authorities to protest about the detention of four Turkish academics for signing the Academics for Peace appeal. Members are encouraged…
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12 February 2016
UCU and Cambridge UCU have written to the Egyptian embassy in London about the recent murder in Cairo of Giulio Regeni. Giulio Regeni was a doctoral researcher…
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18 January 2016
UCU has written to the Turkish government about threats to academic freedom and the safety and well-being of students in the Kurdish region. The letter says that…
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24 May 2015
A number of motions on international issues were passed at UCU Congress held in May 2015. These included motions about TTiP, Israel, Palestine, Qatar, Bahrain,…
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