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Support Fair and Ethical Recruitment: #NoRecruitmentFees
Support fair and ethical recruitment: join the PSI campaign to abolish the practice of charging recruitment fees on migrant workersPeople move for various reasons, but most of them migrate to find work...
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Trade union rights in Liberia: PSI meets the Ambassador to the UN in Geneva
It’s been 3 years since Joseph and George were dismissed following a nationwide strike against poor working conditions that caused hundreds of deaths amongst health workers fighting against Ebola.On...
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In New York, PSI affiliate 1199SEIU delivers letter to the Ambassador of...
It’s been 3 years since Joseph and George were dismissed following a nationwide strike against poor working conditions that caused hundreds of deaths amongst health workers fighting against Ebola.On...
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Why privatization simply aggravates the crisis in Brazilian prisons
By Igor Ojeda The massacre of 56 prisoners at the Anísio Jobim Penitentiary Complex (Compaj) in Manaus, in the state of Amazonas, surprised Brazilians most concerned about the conditions of detention...
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In the prison where the massacre took place, conditions are bad for the...
By Igor OjedaThe massacre of 56 people in the Anísio Jobim Penitentiary Complex (Compaj) in Manaus, Brazil, due to a dispute between two criminal gangs, the Family of the North (FDN) and First Capital...
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PSI attends seminar on the Human Right to Water in Vatican city
Time: 08.30 - 18.00Location: Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Casina Pio IV, V-00120 Vatican CityEvent type: OtherRegion: Africa and Arab countriesAsia-PacificEuropeInter-AmericasWATCH LIVE WEBCAST!DAY...
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PSI Constitution Meetings
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PSI at The Vatican: Human Right to Water
Feature on news: 1Country: Africa and Arab countriesAsia-PacificEuropeInter-AmericasItalyWorldTopic: Water and sanitationLanguage: EnglishFeatured: 1
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Zero Discrimination Day: Make Some Noise – and ACT to Realise the Right to...
The theme for this year’s Zero Discrimination Day is “Make Some Noise” for safe, supportive HIV/AIDS care. There is the need to make a lot of noise for us to draw attention to discrimination and all...
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Women around the world stand up for social justice. Enough is enough.
“While our political system is in crisis and the global economic model works for the few, not the many, women are standing up for social justice, solidarity and democracy”, says Rosa Pavanelli, General...
View ArticleRegional Executive Committee for Inter-Americas - IAMREC (Rio de Janeiro)
Time: 09.00 - 17.00Location: Hotel Pestana - Avenida Atlântica, 2964 - Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro (RJ)Event type: PSI eventRegion: Inter-AmericasTopic: Quality public servicesDate: 23 March, 2017 to 24...
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Water is Life. For some, water is profit. PSI says: PEOPLE OVER PROFIT!
Women have a crucial relationship with water, because of the sexual division of labour that has perpetuated “naturally” attributed social roles and functions to men and women, or the cultural patterns...
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Women work mobility development & economic justice
Time: 10.30Location: Church Center for the United Nations, New YorkEvent type: PSI eventRegion: Africa and Arab countriesAsia-PacificEuropeInter-AmericasMore information on UNCSW61:...
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Argentina: National health sector strike and "No to CUS"
The health sector strike on 6-7 March coincided with a teachers’ strike and a general strike. What’s the problem with the CUS?Universal Health Coverage (CUS) is the policy advocated by the President...
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Fresh attacks on the Right to Health in Brazil
The SAMU stations that are scattered across the city will be closed down and the personnel will be redeployed to Basic Health Units (UBSs) and Emergency Care Units (UPAs) and other municipal...
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Safety Ratios: a trade union battle
Chronic under-funding and major, hasty structural reforms have led to the visible deterioration of the public health care service in Quebec. Health care workers, then patients, are the first to suffer...
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Costa Rica: Quality public healthcare system in danger
The systematic attack on health care in Costa Rica, focuses on: attempts to undermine health workers’ power; lower the quality of public health services as a cost-cutting measure, legitimize the...
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PSI joins "Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts"
Today, nearly 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced.Every day and in every region, these children face a variety of rights violations, from exploitation and...
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Iranian student banned from returning to US despite renewed student visa
A PhD candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida, Mehdi had also worked part-time as a teaching assistant and a resident assistant.The normal visa procedure...
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Global Unions Statement: Support the inclusion and retention of the full and...
Research Document: EnglishImage: Source: Global UnionsBody: While the first draft of the Agreed Conclusions contained language on the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Global Unions are appalled...
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