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Asia-Pacific

Sub-regional Advisory Committee for Oceania - OSRAC (Auckland)

Date: 
15 February, 2017 to 17 February, 2017

Sub-regional Advisory Committee for East Asia - EASRAC (Seoul)

Date: 
14 February, 2017 to 15 February, 2017

Sub-regional Advisory Committee for South Asia - SASRAC (Colombo)

Date: 
7 February, 2017 to 8 February, 2017

ILO Tripartite Meeting on Improving Employment and Working Conditions in Health Services (Geneva)

Date: 
24 April, 2017 to 28 April, 2017

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss decent work strategies that effectively address health workforce shortages, as a prerequisite to enable provision of equal access to health care for all in need, with a view to adopting conclusions on future programme development and to inform policy-making on the selected topic at the international, regional and national levels.

More information on ILO website.

 

ITUC/Global Unions and World Bank/IMF High level meetings

Date: 
7 February, 2017 to 9 February, 2017

PSI is part of the trade union delegation attending the two and a half days meetings with the IMF and World Bank and will be represented as a discussant in the session on "Joint work towards universal social protection and healthcare"'.

Indian High Court rules community health volunteers are municipal employees

31 January 2017
Some of the 4000 women affected by the rule

After 14 years of struggle, 4,000 women health volunteers in Mumbai have been granted the status of municipal employees. They will now be covered for pension benefits and insurance.