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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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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29 January 2016
Omar Ali Ewado, deputy general secretary of the Union of Primary School Teachers, has been sentenced to three months in prison following relentless government harassment.…
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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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19 November 2015
A 5,000-strong petition calling for the swift resolution of jailed Colombian academic Dr Miguel Beltrán's appeal process has been submitted to the Colombian Embassy…
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25 September 2015
Trade unions in the UK and around the world have today launched a campaign highlighting 'widespread and systematic' human rights abuses in Bahrain and called for…
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