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Global dispatches

UCU has a strong tradition of taking up issues at international and European level where they affect members' professional lives, and also working with partner organisations on solidarity and international development issues identified by the membership through UCU's democratic structures.

  • 19 November 2015

    A 5,000-strong petition calling for the swift resolution of jailed Colombian academic Dr Miguel Beltrán's appeal process has been submitted to the Colombian Embassy…

  • 25 September 2015

    Trade unions in the UK and around the world have today launched a campaign highlighting 'widespread and systematic' human rights abuses in Bahrain and called for…

  • 24 May 2015

    A number of motions on international issues were passed at UCU Congress held in May 2015. These included motions about TTiP, Israel, Palestine, Qatar, Bahrain,…

  • 28 August 2014

    University College London (UCL) is today being urged to do more to help workers on its campus in Qatar by Shadow International Development Minister, Alison McGovern.…

  • 31 July 2014

    The University and College Union (UCU) has called for an immediate ceasefire and end to the violence in Gaza. The union backed calls from the United Nations (UN)…