ITUC Global Rights Index 2022
(28 June 2022) The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) published its annual Global Rights Index on Tuesday, 28 June. The Index is useful tool to understand trends regarding trade union activity.
Sometimes in Europe we look at the trade union rights as a conquered issue, but the ITUC Index reminds us that this is not the case. Even Italy has seen the murder of trade unionists. Of course, Turkey and Belarus rank in the top 10 worst countries to be an active trade unionist.
In Europe, the number of countries where workers faced violence doubled from 12 per cent in 2021 to 26 per cent of countries in 2022. Due to the ongoing conflict, Russia and Ukraine were not included in the 2022 Global Rights Index. Globally, Armenia, Australia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Jamaica, Lesotho, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Uruguay all saw their ratings worsen in 2022. Afghanistan increased to Category 5+ - ‘No guarantee of rights’ - due to the breakdown of the rule of law.
The ninth edition of the ITUC Global Rights Index ranks 148 countries on the degree of respect for workers’ rights. The 2022 ITUC Global Rights Index has an interactive website where cases of violated rights and national ratings can be viewed by country and region. A comprehensive review of workers’ rights in law in 148 countries provides the only database of its kind.
View the interactive 2022 Global Rights Index at www.globalrightsindex.org in English, French, German and Spanish.
Read the Executive Summary of the 2022 ITUC Global Rights Index in Arabic, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.
Watch the 2022 Global Rights Index videos in English, French, German and Spanish.
Download the 2022 Global Rights Index infographics in English, French, German and Spanish.
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