• One website designed to mimic that of the constitutional convention has gone so far as to claim that the draft constitution's provisions against water privatization would prohibit people from buying bottled water and bags of ice for backyard gatherings. (commondreams.org)
  • Thus, for proponents of privatization who are grappling with legitimacy issues, the UN report could not have come at a better time. (ibon.org)
  • He noted that while proponents present privatisation as a technical solution for managing resources and reducing fiscal deficits, it has actually become an ideology of governance that devalues public goods, public spaces, compassion and a range of other values that are essential for a decent society. (world-psi.org)
  • While privatisation's proponents insist that it saves money, enhances efficiency, and improves services, the real world evidence very often challenges or contradicts these claims," Alston said. (world-psi.org)
  • Perhaps this is because, lurking behind the elite backslapping, there is widespread African social resistance to neoliberal power and ideology. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The gradual privatisation of education and widespread corruption have aggravated the situation. (cadtm.org)
  • There is also widespread popular anger over the government's criminal response to the pandemic. (wsws.org)
  • Another is widespread disapproval of the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (peoplesworld.org)
  • In India, as elsewhere, USAID claims to work to "boost economic growth and reduce widespread poverty" through supporting economic reforms and restructuring. (indiaresource.org)
  • Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, criticised the extent to which the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and even the UN itself have aggressively promoted widespread privatisation of basic services, without regard to the human rights implications or the consequences for the poor. (world-psi.org)
  • This changing dynamic-the subject of an anthology of essays titled Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala -is a consequence of widespread social violence linked to poverty, inequality and the deep hold of organized crime on the Guatemalan state and society. (americasquarterly.org)
  • In the Philippines, the UN's renewed support for the corporate takeover of water and energy sectors comes at a time that these policies are seriously being challenged by consumers with a better understanding of how oligarchic firms are squeezing them dry with impunity under privatization. (ibon.org)
  • Strikes and demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of workers have erupted in the health, electricity, petroleum, ports, education, plantation and garment sectors over wages, privatisation and austerity measures. (wsws.org)
  • Kosovo Serbs, of course, see it in their own interest to maintain control over sectors of the economy, whether they advocate for a return to state-socialist structures or seek privatization. (islamicpluralism.org)
  • The public's widespread pragmatism on healthcare opens up avenues for sensible reforms, and that is good news. (iea.org.uk)
  • but when human jokes in its cold place, automatically in a life, when the zoos and the having hope shown of donations that will frequently be former, and which no fearful card account, online adamantly think instincts and patients, and when the giraffes and decade are opposed in their widespread media in the healthcare of the network, they long have a knowledge, which we think among our most few videos. (brunsten.com)
  • Contrary to Sabry's claims, the unions have been doing their utmost to dissipate social anger and suppress workers' strikes and protests. (wsws.org)
  • Council of the Trade Unions president Helen Kelly said unions would not be the only ones against the opening up of ACC to competition -- there would be widespread opposition. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Human rights actors should start by reclaiming the moral high ground and reasserting the central role of concepts such as equality, society, the public interest, and shared responsibilities, while challenging the assumption that privatisation should be the default approach. (world-psi.org)
  • I have written on "Maori" rights already ( Rightful Owners 23 August 2003) , so, briefly, this is not England and we (the public or the Crown) have no time immemorial claim to property rights in the beaches. (eastonbh.ac.nz)
  • Practically, this led to the major privatisations of the 80s and 90s, despite widespread public objection. (eastonbh.ac.nz)
  • and stepped-up privatization of public spaces. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Backed by an ideology which claimed that all this was "uplifting the natives", the British felt justified in usurping the ecological spaces and "rationalising" local resource management. (org.in)
  • Human rights criteria are absent from almost all privatisation agreements, which rarely include provisions for sustained monitoring of their impact on service provision and the poor. (world-psi.org)
  • They claim it through the rangatiratanga (second article) provisions of the Tiriti o Waitangi, although some have told me they are less enthusiastic if it meant they got their local foreshore, but were restricted from the beaches where other iwi had the rights. (eastonbh.ac.nz)
  • But, if we ignore Maori claims to their private property rights, then either the government has the right to nationalise any private property without compensation or, if it confines itself to expropriating only Maori, it is racist. (eastonbh.ac.nz)
  • On behalf of working people, the party called for "youth employment through a youth employment quota" and a halt to privatization of government entities. (kpolicy.org)
  • The Government needs to urgently clarify how far their privatisation plans extend. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • What the Government called "the opening up of the working account" everyone else called "privatisation", Mr Hauge said. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • This reduction in staff may explain the $8 million dollars per year in savings claimed by the State Government when they awarded Serco the contract in 2019. (unitedworkers.org.au)
  • The Privatization Option: A Strategy to Shrink the Size of Government, edited by Stuart M. Butler (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 97 pp., $6.95 paper) compiles essays by a number of policy experts, including REASON's Robert W. Poole, Jr., who demonstrate how and why the shifting of government functions into the private sector can work. (reason.com)
  • Privatisation of social protection often leads to a focus on economic efficiency concerns that aim to minimise time spent per client, close cases earlier, generate fees wherever possible, and cater to those better-off, pushing those with less resources and more complex problems to the margins. (world-psi.org)
  • Privatisation is premised on fundamentally different assumptions from those that underpin respect for human rights, such as dignity and equality, he said. (world-psi.org)
  • Existing human rights accountability mechanisms are clearly inadequate for dealing with the challenges of large-scale and widespread privatisation," Alston said. (world-psi.org)
  • The human rights community can no longer ignore the consequences of privatisation and needs to radically reconsider its approach. (world-psi.org)
  • The human rights community needs to develop new methods that systematically confront the broader implication of widespread privatisation and ensure that human rights and accountability are at the centre of privatisation efforts," Alston said. (world-psi.org)
  • Schools and education policy continue to receive widespread attention as the "Johnny-can't-read-problem" remains with us. (reason.com)
  • The evidence that's produced is that the claim rates went down and that is then extrapolated to be accident rates, I don't believe that there was any change in the accident rates, but the claim rates were changed because people were discouraged from making claims or they were paid out and there was no claim made. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Whenever this people rebelled, it was crushed by those above and betrayed by those who claimed to represent us. (cadtm.org)
  • Among the most common falsehoods is that the new constitution could lead to the widespread confiscation of private property, The Guardian noted. (commondreams.org)
  • Could making the beaches Crown Assets lead to their privatisation? (eastonbh.ac.nz)
  • These concerns are underpinned by widespread understaffing, being subject to violence and intimidation and issues such as not being able to take meal breaks. (unitedworkers.org.au)
  • United Workers Union spokesperson Godfrey Moase said: "Our members have been raising issues of understaffing and concerns for their safety over the last 12 months, ever since the privatisation of the facility took place. (unitedworkers.org.au)
  • These claims are bogus and used to slander workers taking action over the rising cost of living, shortages and moves towards privatisation. (wsws.org)
  • Throughout this time, European and Arab seafarers operating in the Indian Ocean traded with coastal communities, and Europeans made several unsuccessful attempts to claim and colonize the island. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before the election, the Conservatives claimed that savings could be made by cutting costly IT projects and consultants while protecting frontline services. (wsws.org)
  • When Cape Town hosted the WEF in 2011, African Development Bank (AfDB) economist Mthuli Ncube made fanciful claims about the new middle class: "Hey you know what, the world please wake up, this is a phenomenon in Africa that we've not spent a lot of time thinking about. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Claims accident rates went down during the past period of ACC privatisation were "rhetoric", he said. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The Times investigation discovered that of the 129 doctors employed by the DOC sixteen have had to pay off previous medical malpractice claims in Florida, some more than once. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • During a televised campaign in 2021, a right-wing party falsely claimed that the new constitution would change Chile's national anthem, flag--and even the name of the country. (commondreams.org)
  • Reflecting the real cost of water and energy under privatization and deregulation only means more expensive water and electricity bills. (ibon.org)
  • There is a real risk that the waves of privatisation experienced to date will soon be followed by a veritable tsunami," Alston said. (world-psi.org)
  • Custodial officers claim that under ARC's contract provider Serco the staffing level to run the facility is less than half the number of staff engaged prior to privatisation. (unitedworkers.org.au)
  • The perspective of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, whose book and TV series Free to Choose won widespread acclaim in the early '80s, is clearly summarized by Eamonn Butler in Milton Friedman: A Guide to His Economic Thought (New York: Universe Books, 256 pp., $16.50/$8.95). (reason.com)
  • But is it intelligent, leaving aside whether it is realistic, for Albanians to advance an ethnic claim that signifies return to a discredited economic system? (islamicpluralism.org)
  • In between the highs there have been many lows, from botched privatizations to dubious private finance initiatives, from failing to spot the great financial crisis to contributing to ever-growing regional imbalances and economic inequalities. (manchesterhive.com)
  • This report will certainly be helpful in pushing for an open debate at the UN on the impact of privatisation and whether PPPs are truly fit for purpose. (world-psi.org)
  • This sort of interaction is readily observable in the southern Caucasus in the Armenian-Azeri conflict around Karabakh, in Georgia's military intervention in Abkhazia, in Azerbaijan's claims to the oil resources of the Caspian shelf, and in the general squeezing out or restriction of ethnic or cultural minorities in all the newly independent Trascaucasian nations. (aheku.net)
  • New Zealand's ACC model is among the best in the world and privatisation should only be allowed if there is evidence it will improve the system, former ACC chairman Ross Wilson says. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • WaihÄ« Beach residents were evacuated on Monday afternoon after "widespread flooding" that a local councillor said was the highest he'd ever seen. (sott.net)
  • And although the slim book is marketed as a polemic, claims about well-educated fools running the country into the ground are unlikely to shock in 2018. (vice.com)
  • In May, for instance, Sen. Felipe Kast--nephew of Jose Antonio Kast , a far-right supporter of Pinochet who lost to leftist President Gabriel Boric in December's election--claimed that the new constitution would authorize abortion up to the ninth month of pregnancy. (commondreams.org)
  • Doctors who have repeatedly lost malpractice claims, been found guilty of sexually abusing their patients, been found guilty of fraud, and who only have temporary or restricted licenses, or who have been disciplined by the State Board of Medicine, are a bargain for the DOC. (prisonlegalnews.org)