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Independent trade unions
The hope to purge the country of corruption and lackeys of the late extinct authorities remains

The Land Center for Human Rights held training events in some villages in the Egyptian countryside in order to aware the peasants about their rights to organize and form independent trade unions to defend their interests and rights on Thursday, 17/03/2011.
In the El waqf village, Ashmoun, Monofia, there was a meeting which was attended by dozens of farmers that filled the forms of Independent Union and the Regulations and set goals to defend their interests in preparation for submission to the Directorate of Manpower in Monofia. The participants agreed to form a union of small-scale agriculture sector independent to support their rights in agriculture safe and providing them with the homes that El Awqaaf claims the ownership of them but the procedures and the staff of bodies rejected the corrupt acts of notification of the decision to establish trade unions, said the Minister of Manpower in Al-Ahram newspaper on 13/03/2011.
In this context, the Centre held a seminar in the village of Tamalay, Menof, Monofia that was attended by dozens of peasants and young people in villages nearby where they emphasized on their opposition to new road, which would threaten their land for the estate of Ahmed Ezz, a symbol of the former corrupt regime, which forced the various parties in the former regime, including the Prime Minister to adopt a faulty decision to disarm their property of lands for the benefit of a road that will benefit him and the corrupt the former regime members, so, the participants agreed to form a union for workers of agriculture and its first target is to return the lands of simple farmers and stop the looting by the representative of the corrupt regime, which was run by criminals deceitful to plunder the riches of the country. The meetings were administrated by the Center's researcher, Magdy El medany, and the participants asked to support their rights to form independent unions of the and stop the custody of government agencies to their union, and his part, LCHR calls upon the Minister of Manpower and the Prime Minister to make decisions that will ensure the right to establish trade unions, political parties, organizations and associations of independent notification to ensure the rights set the international conventions of the International Labor Organization and the Charter of Egypt, which issued to support the trade union movement.
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