Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva, ILO*, 15 November 2012 – The ILO has named Argentina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji and Peru – out of a list of 32 cases examined– as the most serious and urgent regarding freedom of association.
The ILO Committee on Freedom of Association examined cases concerning employers’ and trade unions’ rights to organize, collective bargaining and social dialogue.
The ILO supervisory body dealt with the murder of four workers and injury of two others in Argentina.
The murders happened during the eviction of over 500 workers, demanding decent housing, from a construction site in Mar del Plata in 2009.
The Committee recalled the importance of an immediate and independent judicial inquiry in such cases to clarify the facts, determine responsibility, punish those responsible and prevent the repetition of such acts. It requested the Government to communicate the outcome of the judicial inquiries underway.