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ILO to investigate Zimbabwe rights abuses.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by privately-owned Zimbabwean weekly newspaper The Standard website on 20 December

[Report by Caiphas Chimhete: "ILO To Probe Crackdown on Trade Union Leaders"]

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is dispatching a high-powered delegation to Zimbabwe to investigate allegations of gross abuse of rights of trade union activists and workers by the government, Standardbusiness can report.

The probe comes after the Zimbabwe Congress Trade Unions (ZCTU), the country's largest labour body, made representations to the ILO outlining cases of abuse by government against its members and leaders.

For the past two years, Zimbabwe has been on the ILO's "Special …

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