Translation of "Organisationsfreiheit" in English

Has the Commission investigated whether genuine freedom of the press and association exist in Belarus?

Freedom of association legislation is broadly in line with EU standards.

Countries must recognize the ILO's regulations on working conditions and the protection of the right to form unions, the prohibition of child labour and so on, so that such matters cannot become a competitive consideration used by states to try to attract investors.

Furthermore, we find it curious that a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties should have used a report on human rights to raise the question of trade union law.

If the proposed changes in the law go through, these people may be arrested right away since the freedom of gays and lesbians to form organizations will quite simply be banned.

Any report on this subject should, in my opinion, deal with excesses against fundamental human rights such as the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, religious freedom and freedom of association. It should also investigate and advise on whether the right to legal aid and the right to be allowed to do military service without bearing weapons are being correctly enforced in the EU Member States.

In Cuba, Fidel Castro has now been imprisoning opponents, persecuting dissidents and preventing his people from exercising fundamental rights such as free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and free elections for 47 years.

My own experience is that in China now there is a large degree of freedom of thought but not freedom to organise, because that still is the sine qua non in terms of what China and the Chinese authorities actually forbid.

I believe that, in this connection, many of us have taken decisions contrary to our national constitutions in areas such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, democracy and the rule of law.

All later education acts - which are constantly amended in line with educational developments -are centred around the principle of freedom of orientation and organisation oi1 education, as laid down in the Constitution.

We wish to make it clear that freedom of religious organisation is a fundamental civil right, which cannot be undermined, curbed or jeopardised, which would be the effect of some of the amendments before us.

There was implicit consensus that meeting the original democratic demands of releasing political prisoners and now also hostages (from both sides), freedom for political articulation and organisation, and allowing humanitarian relief to be granted will facilitate stopping the violence – something that could be called democratic transition.

Sustainable employment prospects are conditional upon adequate income, social security, occupational health and safety, labour rights as well as the right to organise.

They want the freedom and right of trade-unions, strike, freedom of assembly and organisation, which are limited already but now openly wrenched from them.

The legal premises regarding Freedom of Association, the Right to Collective Bargaining and the corresponding rights and obligations of trade unions and employers are outlined in several ILO Conventions. These Conventions are legally binding international law and applicable for all countries.

In the context of NGO legislation, the primary aim is to evaluate the extent to which statutory regulations fundamentally question the right of association (a universal right) and respect the independence of organizations or not.

That's all what the workers receive when they work in the PT Matahari Sentosa I. Low wages, bad working condition, no freedom to organize, military intervention, sexual harassment, and another problems.

We therefore have to defend the elementary democratic rights of the popular masses such as to national self-determination, free political expression and organisation and free exercise of religion.

In an open letter to the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa Delgado, more than a dozen organizations, including the NGO Forum on environment and development, show their relief because of the decision to stop the closure of the Acción Ecológica. They also stressed the importance of freedom of speech and freedom of organization.

The demands constitute a veritable indictment motion that covers absolutely every aspect of society: the high cost of living (as much as 100% higher than prices in France), education, professional training, union rights and freedom to organise, public services, environment, agricultural production, urban and rural planning and infrastructure, culture and, finally, "pwofitasyon" (with demands for measures to control prices from now on).

We have some questions to resolve – in reality we are not talking of very large problems – concerning first of all freedom of worship, freedom of organization, the granting of entry visas to religious who come from abroad and whose presence is very necessary for the small number of Catholics in Iran.

Fewer and fewer governments in the North, the South, and the East feel bound by established international law that guarantees and protects freedom of opinion, freedom of assembly, and freedom of organization.

In effect his book was simply a cover for a regime that allowed no freedom of organisation or strike for the workers, but claimed to be building some kind of socialism, which of course it was not.

Beside the obvious insistence on social justice and against the ultra-liberalist policies, the revolutionaries can gain by continuing a) to expose the co-operation of the regime with Israel and the US which blatantly contradicts the Islamic rhetoric, b) to demand the Kurdish right to self-determination which remains a burning question and c) to demand the real implementation of the promised democratic reforms which include the right of the revolutionary forces to freely express and organise themselves but also of the Kurdish nationalist and the Islamic trends still oppressed by the regime of the military oligarchy.