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Africa Non-Academic, Academic and Research Workers Educational Network meeting (Kenya)

Date: 
4 May, 2018 to 5 May, 2018

The Africa Non-Academic, Academic and Research Workers Educational Network (ANARWEN) meeting is being held at the Meridian hotel in Nairobi (Kenya) on 4-5 May 2018. The meeting aims at fostering and building solidarity towards enhancing trade union rights, fighting PPPs in the education sector and providing a platform for sharing best practices, including challenges facing the education sector in this region.

Asia Pacific Regional Strategy Meeting on Trade Justice (Singapore)

Date: 
3 May, 2018 to 4 May, 2018

PSI and Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) will be holding an Asia Pacific Regional Strategy Meeting on Trade Justice, from 3-4 May 2018 in Singapore that will bring together key trade unions in the region with an interest in trade, Global Union Federations (GUFs), experts and civil society representatives. The meeting, supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), will explore the option of creating a regional union network on trade and use participatory methods to create a shared regional strategy.

The Health Policy and Systems Research Agenda on Gender and Intersectionality: Where are the gaps? What can we learn? (Dubai)

Date: 
25 April, 2018 to 26 April, 2018

The objectives of the meeting are to inform broader thinking on the health policy and systems research agenda for gender and intersectionality and guide the framing of an upcoming call for research proposals to be issued by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (the Alliance) on gender and intersectionality in health systems. The focus is on low and middle-income-country institutions.

South Asia Sub-Regional Advisory Committee - SASRAC (Sri Lanka)

Date: 
25 April, 2018 to 27 April, 2018

Financing for Development (FfD) forum (New York)

Date: 
23 April, 2018 to 26 April, 2018

PSI is participating in the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up (FfD) at the United Nations in New York (23-26 April), represented by Helene Davis-Whyte (JALGO, Jamaica) and Richard Amparbeng (PSWU, Ghana) with the support of Sandra Vermuyten, PSI Head of Campaigns.

Trade and Investment Liberalisation: Impact on Indian Workers (Bengaluru)

Date: 
17 April, 2018 to 18 April, 2018

This workshop, held in Bengaluru (India) from 17-18 April, aims at discussing the impact of trade policy as well as specific agreements on key sectors in manufacturing and services from the perspective of the workers engaged in these sectors. Through sharing of experience and knowledge we aim to understand the full impacts of trade and investment policies and identify strategies to tackle the challenges they pose. The workshop is organised by PSI, the Forum against Free Trade Agreements, Third World Network and the Transnational Institute.

ILO Meeting of Experts to adopt Guidelines on Decent Work in Public Emergency Services (Geneva)

Date: 
16 April, 2018 to 20 April, 2018

The purpose of the meeting will be to revise the 2003 Guidelines on Social Dialogue in Public Emergency Services in order to reflect the changes in the nature of emergencies and other developments in the past decade.

PSI AF Women’s Committee

Date: 
11 April, 2018