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EU’s Financial Watchdog Slams Public-Private Partnerships: “Widespread Shortcomings, Limited Benefits”

20 March 2018

The European Court of Auditors (ECA), the European Union’s very own Financial Watchdog, has slammed Public Private Partnerships in a no-holds-barred report released today.

The Alternative World Water Forum has begun!

20 March 2018

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.

UN Staff in Geneva Strike Over Pay Cuts and Austerity Agenda

16 March 2018

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.

Municipal solid waste management services in Latin America

1 Jul 2017

This report is the first of a series of reports which are part of a research project on global waste services which PSI has commissioned to inform its work to improve working conditions in the waste sector. This report served as background research for the first meeting of the PSI Latin America, Central America and Mexican affiliates with membership in municipal waste services that tool place in Bogotá, Colombia on 28-29 July 2017.

Achieving pay equity and decent work in Peru’s water sector

10 March 2018

PSI implemented a pilot project of gender neutral job evaluation and the construction of a map of health security risks in EPSEL, the public water enterprise of Lambayeque in the city of Chiclayo in the north of Peru. This is part of the PSI's campaign for International Women’s Day.

On International Women's Day: Nurses Strike Crosses 200 Days in Kerala

08 March 2018

As the world celebrates women's struggle for equality, the inspiring struggle of nurses at the KVM Hospital in Alappuzha has now reached 200 days.

SIgning the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) on International Women’s Day is an insult to women workers

08 March 2018

PSI joins trade unionists and civil society movements across the Pacific rim to oppose ratification of the so-called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership.

Decent work for Community Health Workers in South Asia: A PSI Report

3 Mar 2018

A recent report by PSI shows the abysmal employment and working conditions of community-based health workers (CHW) in India, Nepal and Pakistan and calls for the recognition of caring for the health of women and children in the community as part of the formal work of the public health system. The report further highlights the importance of the struggle for equal wage for work of equal value in the struggle against neoliberal policies. This is part of PSI's online campaign for International Women's Day.