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Pakistan: call for solidarity |
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Following the extensive flooding in Pakistan, at least 500,000 people have been made homeless and the rain continues to fall. We call upon all PSI affiliates to show solidarity with our affiliates in Pakistan by making financial donations through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. |
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International Youth Day |
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 12 August is United Nations International Youth Day. As the fall-out from the global economic crisis continues Public Services International (PSI) takes the opportunity to underline the importance of policy measures to secure decent work for young people and ensure that a generation of young workers do not end up in a cycle of unemployment, under-employment and precarious jobs. |
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Resolution passes supporting human right to water and sanitation |
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PSI congratulates the government of Bolivia, the civil society activists and the trade unions who campaigned to pass the resolution on the right to water and sanitation in the United Nations General Assembly on 28 July 2010. This resolution clearly shows that water and sanitation are inherently political concerns, not just about business opportunities. |
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Urgent: Help Colombian affiliates in their struggle against water privatisation! |
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PSI asks affiliates to send a letter of support for our members in the public water utility known as Acuavalle S.A. in Colombia, which is facing the threat of privatisation. Acuavalle serves the Valle de Cauca area, one of the most important departments in the country with major cities and the country’s largest seaport. The union, SINTRACUAVALLE, indicates that the public utility serves close to 600,000 people and is effective and efficient. |
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Cuts in public service jobs and wages – what does it mean for women? |
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“How do the EU-wide imposed austerity plans affect women?” This is the question the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) has raised with several members of the European Commission in an open letter. If there are negative impacts EPSU wants to know what the Commission will do about them. |
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Meryem has been released! |
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22 July 2010 - We are pleased to announce that Meryem Özsögüt has been released from prison in Turkey! We received the news from her union, SES, who tells us that her judicial process is still continuing, so we must continue to closely follow her case. We have also received a message from Meryem, thanking affiliates and PSI for the solidarity that gave her hope while she was in prison and that has surely contributed to her release at this point. PSI affiliates are asked to continue to demand the guarantee of justice and freedom for Meryem, and fellow trade unionists who are still being held in Turkish prisons. |
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Join the Global Week of Action for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation |
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Public Services International (PSI) requests affiliates to take immediate action on the UN General Assembly resolution titled The Human Right to Water and Sanitation. By declaring water and sanitation a human right, this historic resolution is a critical step to addressing the misery and deaths that result from not having clean water and sanitation. The right to water and sanitation is supported by many PSI unions and allies. |
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Italy: Water is not for sale |
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The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation is considering a petition to defend water as a common good and to remove it from the grasp of the private market. "There has been an extraordinary mobilization, more than 1.4 million people have participated,” said Paolo Carsetti of the Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l’Acqua (Italian Forum of the Movements for Water), a national network that has been collecting signatures for a referendum against the privatisation of Italy’s water system. |
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Trade agreement could hit healthcare budgets |
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The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and Canadian public service unions have been working together to highlight the potential negative effects of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. Concerns over ‘data exclusivity’ and its impact on healthcare costs was one of the issues raised by a delegation from the Trade Justice Network of Canada who were in Brussels to meet Members of Parliament, political advisors and assistants in the EP Trade Committee during the 4th EU-Canada negotiation round on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Brussels from 12-16 July. |
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Call to action: Global Day of action on Swaziland |
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September 7th will mark the first ever Global Day of Action on Swaziland. Thousands will march across the world and in Swaziland itself to say loud and clear, ‘A Democratic Swaziland Now!’ Decisive action is necessary to pressure the regime to break from its repressive practices, and to embark on a democratic road to development. PSI is calling on its affiliates around the world to support the call for action. |
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