researcher working on globalisation, poverty, development,social protection, gender

Brussels and Cuernavaca
Joined August 2010
Francine Mestrum retweeted
🤩What a week - millions of workers across #Europe are on strike! Today: 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪 Tomorrow: 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇬🇷🇳🇱 Friday: 🇵🇹 EPSU stands in #solidarity with all striking workers for higher pay & better conditions! 🧵Follow the thread to find out Europe's #strike map.
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Francine Mestrum retweeted
During the COVID-19 recovery packages, we saw 87% of recovery loans by the IMF recommend austerity, and 63% of all funds went to private sector due to lender / donor bias with national biases about who are the ‘economy’ 2/8
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Children are disproportionately affected by poverty. They’re also more vulnerable to its effects. Check out the global estimates of children in monetary poverty: uni.cf/3c4wI26 @WBG_Poverty
De bom bij Frontex is ontploft! Eindelijk! Nu een beter beleid?
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,@ajassy As Amazon's new CEO you have the chance to improve @Amazon’s reputation by improving policies to show greater respect for your workers. I hope you’ll act on requests from those of us — customers and workers — who are the key to Amazon’s success.
#AEPF13 Plenary on Income Security May 21, 10-12pm CET With @IsabelOrtizUN @Policy_Dialogue @nikhilmkss @mkssindia @FMestrum @katelap @PSIglobalunion @LifeOfDignity & Maris dela Cruz @meenamen @KoenDetavernier
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Good democracies need working people to #joinaunion and be organised so their voice is always heard, and they have a bigger influence at election time. Join me and make your pledge to be a #democracydefender @ituc xitter.cf/IGITCS/status/13090790… bit.ly/2RXlm2t
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Debate Oded Grajew and Roberto Savio on 'action' in the WSF and on communication... foranewwsf.org/2020/09/a-nec…
Articulo Luis Bonilla-Molina: Es urgent y necesario un foro social mundial de las luchas: foranewwsf.org/2020/09/es-ur…
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The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers. A set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Francine Mestrum retweeted
Be persistent if it doesn’t work first time. I had to try three times. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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On New Year’s Day, millions of women stood along highways in southern India and detailed a manifesto for the future. “We will stand for equality for women! We will fight for secularism!” nyti.ms/2CL1yIL
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