Sixteen-year old Greta Thunberg from Sweden is inspiring a global movement for collective action on climate change. On March 15, 2019, a Global Climate Strike will see hundreds of thousands of young people in cities around the world join the movement.

Public pension funds and sovereign wealth funds across the globe have tens of millions of dollars invested in private prison companies, including directly-owned shares and exposure through other investments like indexes and hedge funds.

PSI affiliates in the Caribbean sub-region have committed to developing both a national, sub-regional and global response on debt sustainability focusing on capacity building, advocacy and coalition-building to audit sovereign debt; propose alternative solutions to re-structure debt in combination with progressive tax reforms and economic development plans.

Among different type of private actors involved in education, commercial schools raise specific challenges. Commercial schools have been defined as schools “whose one of the main objectives (though not necessarily unique) is to develop commercial activities out of education services and to defend their own interest to the detriment of the general interest. They consider education as a tradable good, which involves in particular that they intend to extend their activities and model by entering in competition with other education establishments, to increase their turnover, and to increase their profit.” The following page is meant as a monitoring resource page to critically reflect on the development of this type of schools against human rights standards.

Public Services International, EURODAD and other CSO partners jointly urge all those concerned with justice, equality, sustainability and human rights to resist the encroachment of PPPs and to push instead for high-quality, publicly-funded, democratically-controlled, accountable public services. The well-being of our communities and societies depends on it!

Governments must ensure that they act in the best interest of their communities by providing quality public services. The provision of essential services should be their highest priority. Privatisation should only be considered if it has been demonstrated to be in the best interest of communities and the best use of taxpayer funding.

Stop Public-Private Partnership agreement between Lagos and foreign private firms - a scam and a ploy to extort the people of Lagos. Nigeria has adopted Sustainable Development Goal 6, that commits governments to ensure that everyone has access to safe water by 2030, and PPP’s undermine this target.