Africa & Arab countries

In Lagos Nigeria, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth led protest actions on some major streets in continued campaigns to kick against plans by the Lagos State Government to privatize its water. PSI Nigerian affiliate the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation Civil Service and Recreational Services Employees participated in the protest.

New EU digital tax rules are a good first step to address public outrage over the dodgy tax practices of some of the world’s biggest corporations says Public Services International, a Global Trade Union Federation at the centre of the campaign for corporate tax forum.

In a discussion with PSI, George Poe Williams, General Secretary of NAHWUL, Liberia, expressed his heartfelt frustration at the situation in the country, but also his hope for the future with the new government of President George Weah who recently met with the health sector unions, as earlier reported by PSI. Here are some extracts from the discussion.

Academics, social movements, trade unions and civil society organisations are meeting in Brasilia until 22 March to discuss how to resist the commodification of water in the world.

After months of stalled negotiations over the International Civil Service Commission's failed salary reform process and wider issues of austerity and deteriorating working conditions, UN Staff in Geneva have voted to hold a rare Strike action today, March 16th.