It reports across the world on restrictions on free trades unionism, violence against workers, harassment of trades unionists, and the arrest and imprisonment of trades union leaders, calling it “a stark and worsening global crisis for workers and unions”. Trade unionists paid the ultimate price for their activism in Cameroon, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and South Africa – killed for defending workers’ rights." As an education trade union, we believe that defending human rights, including trade union rights and the right to education, must be a global endeavour.”. (The Lviv delegation included the independent rail workers' union as well as the students’ union and the education and science workers union). Giving our support for struggles for self-determination is not an alternative to supporting workers rights - the two go hand in hand.