United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai (right) received the 2016 AFL-CIO George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award last week, with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka describing Kiai as “an effective watchdog against crackdowns of freedom of association and assembly.” Kiai in October presented the landmark “Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association report to the UN General Assembly. The report forcefully conveys how the vast majority of the world’s workers are disenfranchised from their rights to assembly and association—rights that are fundamental to all other human rights—either by exclusion or outright oppression. Find out more at the Solidarity Center.