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Brazil

PSI Interamerica’s LGBT Committee sets goals for 2017

10 January 2017

Representatives from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and the Netherlands met for PSI's Interamerican LGBT Regional Committee in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17-18 November 2016 to plan for future actions including #PSICongress2017.

In Brazil, public spending will be frozen for 20 years

14 December 2016

"Unfortunately, if this measure is not reversed, the scenario for the next two decades is disastrous: chaos will be installed in the public health and education systems, while the privatization of the sector will be increased", says Jocelio Drummond, from Public Services International. Protests against the measure were severely repressed.

UN alert: freezing of public spending for 20 years in Brazil will violate human rights

09 December 2016

"This amendment would lock in inadequate and rapidly dwindling expenditure on health care, education and social security, thus putting an entire generation at risk of social protection standards well below those currently in place", says Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

Affiliates of PSI Interamerica strengthen the struggle for public health and against precarious employment in the sector

18 November 2016

Regional Meeting of Public Services International (PSI) Interamerica's Health Sector took place on 8 and 9 November in São Paulo, Brazil. The meeting was considered as part of the reconstruction of the health policy of PSI at a global level.

Available in Spanish and English PSI Brazil's guide on violence against women in the workplace

01 June 2016

The publication presents the problem and calls unions to combat and prevent violence. It should be used as an information, capacity building, and mobilization tool for women and men in the fight against sexist violence in the workplace.

PSI affiliates in Brazil alert for the risks of regress after the possible overthrown of Dilma Rousseff

19 April 2016

Vice President Michel Temer has already pointed to business sectors that his government's agenda, if he ascends to the presidency, will be markedly neoliberal, with privatization, loss of labor rights and cuts in social programs.

Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples denounces the risk of "breakdown of the democratic order" in Brazil

06 April 2016

"REBRIP is joining the struggle and the social movements of the country, and reaffirms its resistance to a coup and its confidence in the pillars of democracy and respect for human rights guaranteed by the Brazilian constitution."

Climate change: Towards and Beyond COP21

08 October 2015

The solutions to the climate challenge require a substantive transformation of the current socio-economic development paradigm, including industrial change. This is not just about some technical changes to energy production or transport systems. What is required is a redefinition of the predominant model of production and consumption. We must give back to the state and public services their role in supporting our communities, and ensure that workers and trade unions are able to participate fully in all steps of this process.

McDonald's: as consequências da sonegação de impostos

16 September 2015
Foto: Sinthoresp

Especialistas comentam denúncias de sonegação de impostos pelo McDonald´s, publicadas em relatório em maio, e os prejuízos que as manobras de elisão fiscal trazem para os governos, sociedade e trabalhadores.

Continental Conference on the Struggle Against racism in the Workplace - Celebrating INSPIR´s 20th Anniversary

Date: 
17 August, 2015 to 19 August, 2015

African descent union leaders, indigenous and non-black allies in the fight against racism in Brazil, USA, Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Guyana and the Dominican Republic will attend the event.