Event List

Our new paper maps gender-water relations and unearths women’s struggles for access to clean and safe water in Korail slum. A majority desire public water because it holds the promise of access for all at a more affordable cost, underscoring the importance of integrating a gendered perspective in debates on alternatives to privatization.

Our research associate Amit Sengupta explains India's patent system & the recent Novartis case, highlights the need to defend health safeguards to achieve access to medicines for all.

We have produced a groundbreaking motion design animation in the form of a documentary puzzle on the theme of water remunicipalisation! Watch it on YouTube!

Remunicipalización: El retorno del agua a manos públicas analiza la transición del abastecimiento privado de agua al público en París, Dar es Salaam, Buenos Aires y Hamilton, y revisa un experimento a nivel nacional en Malasia. La travesía hacia un mejor servicio público de agua ilustra los beneficios y desafíos de la propiedad municipal, y al mismo tiempo destaca el dominio de las instituciones financieras internacionales y el legado del control corporativo.

PHM is organizing its first webinar with Dr Deborah Gleeson from PHM-Australia on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its impact on public health. You can still register for this Feb. 21 talk!

MSP co-director David McDonald is in Berlin to present a paper at a conference entitled "The Future of Public Enterprise" taking place from Feb. 14-16, 2013.

As part of the Peoples Summit 2013 (Santiago de Chile), strategies to reclaim water for public management will be discussed.

David McDonald, co-editor of Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South, presented the results of this ambitious research project and future orientations at York University. Watch the video!