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  1. Case No 2471 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 26-OCT-05The Djibouti Union of Workers (UDT) The complainant organization alleges that the management of the Port of Djibouti is impeding the free exercise of trade union rights through various measures: the dismissal of 11 trade union leaders and activists; the detention of 170 workers and the dismissal of another 25 workers following a solidarity strike; the arrest and preventive detention of 12 workers; repeated harassment of workers by the police and through legal means; the sending of “final warnings before dismissal” to 120 workers who had engaged in the collection of funds to provide financial support for the dismissed workers
  2. Report in which the committee requests to be kept informed of development - Report No 344, March 2007 ( 880 - 896 )
  3. Case No 2450 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 04-AUG-05The Djibouti Union of Workers (UDT), the General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGTD) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) The complainant organizations, the Djibouti Union of Workers (UDT) and the General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGTD), allege that the Government: refuses to take the necessary measures to reinstate union members dismissed in 1995 following a strike in protest against the consequences of a structural adjustment programme launched by the IMF, despite having made a commitment to do so in 2002; continues to unfairly dismiss union officials and to harass them; has adopted a new Labour Code spelling the end of free and independent trade unionism; and shows favouritism in the appointment of worker’s delegates to regional and international conferences. The UDT also alleges that a senior union official (postal sector) was unfairly dismissed; union members were repeatedly harassed; and the judiciary has not acted on complaints from union members. The ICFTU alleges the violent suppression of a strike carried out by bus and truck drivers in September 2005, which resulted in numerous arrests and the assassination of a member of the drivers’ union; the prohibition of trade union elections at the national printing press during the year 2005; impediments placed by the Government to the holding and organizing of free trade union elections at all levels; massive arrests and detention of trade union members and leaders from the Union of Port Workers (UTP); the arrest of Mohamad Ahmed Mohamad, responsible for legal affairs at the UTP, Djibril Ismael Egueh, Secretary-General of the Staff Union at the Maritime and Transit Services (SP-MTS), Adan Mohamed Abdou, Secretary-General of the UDT and Hassan Cher Hared, Secretary for International Affairs of the UDT, all of whom were ultimately charged with “delivering information to a foreign power”; and the barring from entry of an international trade union solidarity mission, despite the formal assurances given by the Minister of the Interior for their unimpeded entry into Djibouti and the subsequent arrest and interrogation of the unique member of this mission allowed to enter the country,
  4. Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 372, June 2014 ( 29 - 32 )
  5. Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 370, October 2013 ( 40 - 44 )
  6. Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 363, March 2012 ( 134 - 149 )
  7. Report in which the committee requests to be kept informed of development - Report No 359, March 2011 ( 371 - 394 )
  8. Interim Report - Report No 356, March 2010 ( 667 - 685 )
  9. Interim Report - Report No 351, November 2008 ( 775 - 798 )
  10. Interim Report - Report No 348, November 2007 ( 533 - 560 )
  11. Interim Report - Report No 342, June 2006 ( 412 - 436 )
  12. Case No 2042 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 26-JUL-99The Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU)Dismissals, suspensions and removal of trade unionists following strike action; confiscation of trade union archives; obstruction of May Day demonstrations and interference in a trade union general meeting
  13. Report in which the committee requests to be kept informed of development - Report No 324, March 2001 ( 526 - 536 )
  14. Interim Report - Report No 318, November 1999 ( 188 - 207 )
  15. Case No 1922 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 04-APR-97Education International (EI), the Secondary Teachers' Union (SYNESED) and the Primary Teachers' Union (SEP) Dismissals, suspensions and removal of trade unionists following strike action; confiscation of trade union archives; obstruction of May Day demonstrations and interference in a trade union general meeting
  16. Report in which the committee requests to be kept informed of development - Report No 324, March 2001 ( 526 - 536 )
  17. Interim Report - Report No 318, November 1999 ( 188 - 207 )
  18. Interim Report - Report No 311, November 1998 ( 462 - 479 )
  19. Interim Report - Report No 309, March 1998 ( 224 - 251 )
  20. Case No 1851 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 19-SEP-95The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the Djibouti Inter-Trade Union Association of Labour/General Union of Djibouti Workers (UDT/UGDT) and the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU)Dismissals, suspensions and removal of trade unionists following strike action; confiscation of trade union archives; obstruction of May Day demonstrations and interference in a trade union general meeting
  21. Report in which the committee requests to be kept informed of development - Report No 324, March 2001 ( 526 - 536 )
  22. Interim Report - Report No 318, November 1999 ( 188 - 207 )
  23. Interim Report - Report No 311, November 1998 ( 462 - 479 )
  24. Interim Report - Report No 309, March 1998 ( 224 - 251 )
  25. Interim Report - Report No 307, June 1997 ( 253 - 272 )
  26. Interim Report - Report No 304, June 1996 ( 255 - 286 )
  27. Case No 1803 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 13-OCT-94The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
  28. Report in which the committee requests to be kept informed of development - Report No 299, June 1995 ( 329 - 341 )
  29. Case No 1223 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 27-JUL-83General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGDT)
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