Asia Pacific Secretary at Public Services International (PSI). Find me on Blue Sky instead.

Joined March 2009
#APFSD2025 | Kate Lappin of Public Services International (PSI) shares best practices of trade unions from countries across Asia-Pacific for improving women workers' rights, social protection systems and the gender wage gap. #DevelopmentJusticeNow #ChangeTheSystem #ShiftThePower
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🎥 New Video #NursesMigration is taking a toll on Fiji's health system. Even in #Australia, their rights are undermined. @nswnma and Fiji Nursing Association hv come together to fight for workers' rights and a better health system in Fiji. Watch for more. psishort.link/hqx
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If the public good, rather than profits, drove public policy and the news cycle, this would be front page news and the top of every agenda. theguardian.com/environment/…
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UK's 🇬🇧 largest union @unisontheunion, is calling on the govt to support Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty. It proposes global action to curb rising temp.🔥. Read more in @envjournal, featuring PSI's @katelap! #ClimateAction tinyurl.com/ahb8y7v6
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📢 Press Conference Alert: Tax Justice in Nepal!🇳🇵💼 Trade Unions demand #TaxTheRich to create a fairer, just society where workers don’t bear the burden! Don't miss!💪 🗓️ Tuesday, 24 September ⏰ 3:30 PM 📍Hotel Barahi, Thamel, Kathmandu @ #TaxJustice #workersrights
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kate lappin retweeted
As #APFF2024 #AsiaPacificFeministForum2024 opens in #ChiangMai #Thailand, let us read what CNS reported #SevenYearsAgo at 2017 #AsiaPacificFeministForum: ⭐️☂️⭐️[Spotlight] Feminism is about solidarity, not about matriarchy ⭐️☂️⭐️ citizen-news.org/2017/09/spo… @APWLD #GenderJustice
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As long as our governments enable new oil & gas projects, they cannot claim to be acting in the public interest. Thankfully, our new govt is starting to grasp the urgency of a just transition away from fossil fuels. My thoughts in the Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Jane inspired fierce, yet systematic and thoughtful organising. Her legacy will live on in the struggles our affiliates are winning across the region, where we have been adapting her methods. Rest in Power Jane.
Rest in power Jane McAlevey, The Nation's strikes correspondent, a dear friend to the mag, and a woman who fought tenaciously until the end. We're putting together a thread of some of Jane's best reporting. But we'll start with her obit, published today: bit.ly/4cuvAPn
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Week 307. Earlier this week, 10 environmental activists from the group Mother Nature Cambodia were sentenced to six to eight years in prison after peacefully protesting for clean water. This is yet another unacceptable example of the global trend where activists and land defenders are being criminalised and faced with ever increasing repression. The right to peaceful protest cannot be compromised. Activists continue to resist state repression and continuing to speak up for all of our rights, freedom and safety. But they need all the support they can get. We all need to raise our voices to #DefendTheDefenders I stand in solidarity with my friends in Mother Nature Cambodia and demand their immediate release, along with all political prisoners. #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime
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If one includes both direct & indirect deaths from Israel's assault, the death toll in Gaza goes up to 186,000 people, according to the medical journal @TheLancet. That's 1 in every 12 Gaza inhabitants killed in the last 9 months of genocide.
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Siempre en los momentos más tristes de la humanidad, la Humanidad reacciona. Esta es la Revolución mundial por la Vida; Libertad, igualdad y Fraternidad. Vivre La France.
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Australian nurses paid 3X more tax than the gas industry in 2022. The gas myths need to end.
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Congratulations to Sister Khaing Zar and comrades at CTUM for the much deserved prize recognising their persistent struggle for trade union rights and democracy in Myanmar. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #Myanmar socialeurope.eu/myanmar-awar…
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📰“Despite making sacrifices and doing our work earnestly, we are not treated as workers but as volunteers,” said Gita Devi Thing to @peoplesdispatch. Thing is President of NEVA, union of #CommunityHealthWorkers in Nepal, & is representing PSI in #ILC2024 tinyurl.com/4xtwbe95
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Curious why #CHWs are heading to #ILC2024? Want to know their demands? Listen to our leader,Gita Devi Thing, as she explains why she's going to Geneva. #CommunityHealthWorkers @ilo @ILOAsiaPacific @katelap @ituc @WHO @itucasiapacific @weropakistan @SaskFi @aslhweu @FacketKommunal
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📷In this video, Basanti Maharjan, a CHW heading to Geneva for #ILC2024, talks about the demands of #CommunityHealthWorkers and PSI's support in organising them. Listen in! @ilo @ILOAsiaPacific @katelap @ituc @WHO @itucasiapacific @weropakistan @SaskFi @aslhweu @FacketKommunal
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During the #ACTUcongress2024 last week, PSI's @katelap and Dr Christina Colclough spoke about data security, workers' rights and PSI's Digital Bargaining Hub. To know more about the hub, click here: publicservices.international… @unionsaustralia @tmREDdington
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