World Report 2018 by Human Rights Watch

Author:Human Rights Watch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: politics, political science, world history, history of the world, human rights, war, islam, terrorism, immigration, immigrants, war on terror, journalism, journalist, sociology, political, education, social justice, united nations, democracy, international relations, globalization, foreign affairs, genocide, foreign policy, censorship, culture, torture, christian books, 9/11, christianity, immigration reform, current events, american history, radical, chomsky, activism, feminism, feminist, feminist books, trump, current affairs, darfur
ISBN: 9781609808150
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2018-01-12T18:00:00+00:00

Labor Rights

The independent labor movement faced a concerted crackdown in 2017. In January, a court closed the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Kazakhstan (KNPRK) for failing to register in accordance with the restrictive trade union law. A court convicted KNPRK President Larisa Kharkova on politically motivated embezzlement charges in July, and imposed travel and other restrictions for four years, and banned her from trade union leadership positions for five years.

A court found illegal a January hunger strike by approximately 400 oil workers in Aktau protesting the closure of KNPRK. Nearly 50 workers were fined or ordered to pay compensation to their employer. In April and May, courts sentenced two participants, Amin Eleusinov and Nurbek Kushakbaev, to two-and-a-half and two years’ imprisonment, respectively, in apparent retaliation, and barred them from union activities for two and five years.

In June, the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Committee on the Application of Standards reviewed Kazakhstan for the third year in a row for freedom of association violations, and called on authorities to revise the Trade Union Law and ensure that KNPRK operates. At time of writing, the government has not addressed the ILO’s conclusions.

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