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• UK should embrace vaccine waiver for everyone’s sake, says UNISON

  06-05-2021 19:47
  
  Responding to the US government’s backing for a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines at the World Trade Organisation, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Thursday):
  “The UK government must follow the US lead. Continuing to block vaccine access to less wealthy countries is in no one’s interests.
  “With new strains emerging regularly across the globe, we face the possibility&n
  
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• UNISON opposes drastic cuts to UK aid budget

  06-05-2021 18:38
  
  UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea has written to Dominic Raab, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs to express ‘deep concern’ at the government’s proposals to drastically cut the UK aid budget for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as the contribution to the United Nations Population Fund for work on sexual and reproductive health.
  Recent reports state that lifesaving support for WASH will be reduced by 80 percent, which will ha
  
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• British and Irish trade unions condemn Colombian state violence

  06-05-2021 14:20
  
  UNISON has joined a number of British and Irish trade unions in condemning the latest human rights abuses, including the killing of protestors, by state forces in Colombia.
  General secretary Christina McAnea and TUC president Frances O’Grady are among those who have written to the foreign offices in London and Dublin with their “profound condemnation” of the violence in the South American country.
  Their open letter notes that since the latest round of trade union-led national s
  
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