Silver Rose Award nomination for Huber Ballesteros

The TUC-backed Justice for Colombia has nominated jailed Colombian trade unionist Huber Ballesteros, for the Silver Rose Award, given every year to outstanding human rights advocates and defenders by the progressive European-based development NGO Solidar.

The TUC has also nominated Huber, along with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC); global union federations IndustriALL, UNI and PSI and its European organisation EPSU; the Irish Congress of Trade Unions; TUC and ICTU affiliates GMB, Unison, Unite and SIPTU; the European Parliamentary Labour Party and the Northern Ireland SDLP and Co-operative Party, the Trade Union Group of MPs, Lord John Monks and Police Commissioner Tony Lloyd.

In response, JFC has received a letter of thanks from Huber, in La Picota Prison, Bogota, Colombia.