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Equity and inclusion 18 March 2016 A gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development needs participation and partnerships
The critical role of women’s participation through trade unions was at the core of the UNCSW60, through a panel discussion on partnerships for gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 March 2016 Iranian teacher unionists released after global solidarity campaign
Abdolreza Ghanbari and Ali Akbar Baghani, members of the Iranian Teacher Trade Associations, for whom Education International had launched a solidarity campaign, have been released. Ghanbari had been awaiting execution for 2 years before his sentence was commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment.
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Union renewal and development 17 March 2016 Consultation on accountability in education now open
A report on global education with a special focus on accountability is in the making, and educators from all over the world can contribute to it.
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Equity and inclusion 17 March 2016 UN CSW60 side event: ‘Financing for education: a key to empowering women and girls’
The Education International’s President Susan Hopgood has joined a high level panel of experts to discuss gender, education and financing issues at the Sixtieth Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
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Standards and working conditions 15 March 2016 Teacher Unions: Positive Force for Education Quality
EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen debated anti-union activists at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai earlier this week, taking the ‘con’ side of a proposition stating “Teacher Unions are an Impediment to the Provision of Quality Education.”
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Standards and working conditions 15 March 2016 UK: Supply teachers are victims of dubious working practices
Supply teachers in the UK have reported serious concerns about increasingly doubtful working practices by their contracting agencies, with an impact both their working conditions and quality of life.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 15 March 2016 Pearson: wrong strategical approach, unions fear
A coalition of shareholders, led by US and British unions whose pension funds hold stock in the company, have voiced concern that the global education publisher and provider Pearson is building its business strategy on an “over-reliance” on educational testing.
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Equity and inclusion 14 March 2016 EI and other GUFs' delegations begin their work at the 60th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
The full labour delegation present in New York, USA, is made up of an unprecedented 150 women union leaders from 34 countries.
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Union renewal and development 14 March 2016 Education International mourns the death of eminent Indonesian education union leader
Education International has learned with great shock and sadness of the untimely death of Dr. Sulistiyo (54), President of the Teachers’ Association of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2016 Mali: Next phase of quality education project launched
The new phase of the successful Quality Educators for All Project - “Every child needs a good teacher” - has been launched in Mali, aiming to improve teacher quality, teaching, and learning in the country.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 March 2016 Health education crucial for quality education
Students must be seen as holistic beings, and the impact of the state of their health on their education taken into greater consideration. This was the key message highlighted by Education International at the 60th Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society.
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Union growth 9 March 2016 Colombia: EI demands immediate release of academic and unionist Miguel Ángel Beltrán
Education International has launched an urgent action appeal in support of jailed Colombian academic and unionist Miguel Ángel Beltrán.
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Union growth 9 March 2016 Tonga joins the ILO
A hard-fought 10-year trade union battle has borne fruit with Tonga becoming the 187th member state of the International Labour Organisation.
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Equity and inclusion 9 March 2016 UN: Need for shared responsibility and policies to address migration issues
Migration policies, growing xenophobia internationally, indicators on migrants and migration in sustainable development goals’ targets, and a world migration summit were key issues discussed at the United Nations Coordination Meeting on International Migration.
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Union growth 8 March 2016 Honduras: Prominent human rights defender murdered
The global education trade union movement has firmly condemned the murder of environmentalist and human rights defender Berta Caceres.
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Equity and inclusion 8 March 2016 On International Women’s Day this year, we celebrate women’s activism and achievements in education trade unions
In his official statement to commemorate International Women’s Day, the Education International's General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, proudly celebrates ‘the august history of women’s activism within trade unions’.
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Leading the profession 6 March 2016 Teacher Summit puts teachers at the heart of their professional development
With global events as the backdrop in Berlin for the Summit on the teaching profession, teacher unions made their message clear: teachers must be at the centre of their professional development.
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Equity and inclusion 4 March 2016 UNESCO: Comprehensive sexuality education improves gender equality and reproductive health
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is key to gender equality and reproductive health. That’s according to UNESCO’s new report, ‘Emerging Evidence, Lessons and Practice in Comprehensive Sexuality Education - A Global Review 2015’.
UNESCO: Comprehensive sexuality education improves gender equality and reproductive health