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- Human rights
The Fundació Privada Pau i Solidaritat, created by CCOO de Catalunya, is a NGO for the defence of Labour Human Rights across the world by means of incorporating the trade union dimension to the processes of development cooperation.
We work with trade union organizations from the South (Mediterranean Area, Latin America, Balkans Region) so as to strengthen them through projects of international development cooperation. We also implement awareness campaigns in Catalonia that revolve around the concept of decent work for everybody as well as the promotion of the culture of peace.
We take part, together with other actors of the international cooperation field, in the promotion of international solidarity policies and we also work for raising public awareness towards social change and justice.
Our projects in the Euro-Mediterranean region are the following:
- Support to trade union training for the promotion and strengthening of workers’ actions as democratic agents in Algeria.
- Support to the programme of assessment to unemployed Arab women of Israel in order for them to become employed in the agricultural sector.
- Programme for the strengthening and training of metalworkers’ trade unions in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
- Awareness campaign for the respect of labour human rights of women workers in the countries of the South: Egypt, Colombia, Israel and Balkans Region.
- Programme for reciprocal visiting and training of teachers between the towns of Chefchaouen (Morocco) and Girona (Catalonia).
- Publishing of an audiovisual work related to the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Our main projects in Latin America are the following:
- Strengthening of trade union organizations from Central America for the accomplishment of the Strategic aims of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
- Strengthening of the organisation structure of the trade unions belonging to the cleaning sector in the Callao region of Peru, together with the promotion of a gender focus in those organisations.
We are a foundation linked to a main trade union. Therefore our management has always focused in trade union development trough international cooperation projects. We can contribute to the Network by providing a trade union point of view, id est. the point of view of an important type of social partner in society.
Other than this, we can contribute to the Network by providing it with a 20-year-long expertise on social and economic development and, above all, on Labour Human Rights integrated in the so-called triple dimension of development: social, cultural and economic.
Our organisation is now shifting its main target area from Latin America to the Euro-Mediterranean Region, where we already have been working over the last 10 years on projects in the Maghreb region, the Balkans Area and the Palestinian community of Israel.
In the framework of the Mediterranean Spring occurred over the last year and a half our organisation wants to be involved in the amelioration of the social conditions of the Southern Mediterranean inhabitants and the improvement of social dialogue in those states; the fact that the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean are in located in Barcelona and the Catalan tradition to look at the Mediterranean, acknowledged by the Barcelona Declaration of 1995, couples in an renowned interest for us in working with new partners in the Euro-Mediterranean region.