To respond to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has committed $1 trillion and as of September 20, 2020 had provided $89 billion worth of financial assistance to countries around the world. Oxfam has reviewed the publicly available IMF COVID-19 loan documents associated with 91 loans to 81 countries, extracting and collating select data from each loan document relevant to spending, accountability, and proposed recovery measures.

A common narrative in the human rights community is that human rights are neutral towards the type of water and sanitation provision and provider. The present report challenges this narrative. In the report, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Léo Heller, starts from the premise that specific risks to the enjoyment of the human rights to water and sanitation in situations of privatization exist, and that the exploration of the legal, theoretical and empirical dimensions of these risks is necessary and relevant.

Extract from the civil society report Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2020. Frontline public service workers continue to receive praise and support for their vital role in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Yet these underfunded public services and brutal working conditions are not inevitable. They are the result of decades of the neo-liberal ideology choices : deliberate erosion of our public services through budget cuts, privatization and understaffing.

Calls for “building back better” by just pushing the reset button will not change the game.We need structural changes in societies and economies that ensure the primacy of human rights, gender justice and sustainability.This is the key message of the 2020 edition of the Spotlight Report on Sustainable Development.

Este estudio ofrece una visión general de la situación de las y los trabajadores públicos de Chile en un contexto particular de pandemia, para que los sindicatos involucrados puedan contar con la evidencia suficiente, para identificar y responder al conjunto de dimensiones y problemas generados por el teletrabajo y los cambios abruptos en sus formatos de trabajo.

Além de explicar como a estrutura desigual de impostos na América Latina está impactando negativamente a região no combate à pandemia, o artigo traz uma série de recomendações de políticas que os governos devem adotar para pagar a crise, financiar os serviços públicos e reduzir a desigualdade social.

This compendium of 50 remunicipalisation case studies is the second part of the report "Taking our public services back in house", a remunicipalisation guide for workers and trade unions. Commissioned by PSI to Dr. Vera Weghmann from the University of Greenwich, this new guide provides a timely, extensive analysis and case studies to support PSI affiliates in the process of reclaiming public service ownership and control in the common interest.

Assinado por dezenas de entidades representantes de trabalhadoras e trabalhadores, o documento enumera uma série de propostas para superar a crise causada pela pandemia de Covid-19, como reforma tributária solidária e justa, revogação Emenda Constitucional 95 e recuperação do SUS.

O levantamento, realizado entre 31 março e 15 de junho de 2020, teve como objetivo avaliar os impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 nas condições de trabalho e na saúde de milhões de trabalhadoras e trabalhadores brasileiros que atuam direta e indiretamente no combate à esta emergência.

As public authorities seek to provide lockdown and safety measures to beat Covid-19, and are forced to rethink and adapt their policies, public and social housing clearly emerge as an essential part of the solution to beating pandemics and protecting public health. Read here PSI’s new paper “Strong public and social housing services: a key asset in halting global pandemics.”

Este artículo analiza cómo los 25 años de TLCs en Latinoamérica perjudicaron la capacidad de respuesta de los Estados frente a la pandemia de coronavirus.

Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de los Servicios Públicos en Chile