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Equity and inclusion 15 June 2009 ILO address: EI denounces child labour, supports Employee Free Choice Act
“There are still too many places where child labour is a more or less socially accepted phenomenon. In Central Asia, where children are forced out of school and into the cotton fields. In South Asia and Africa, where children labour in factories and on the streets. And in households around...
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Equity and inclusion 11 June 2009 EI condemns attacks on Peruvian Indigenous defenders of Amazon jungle
Education International is raising its voice in solidarity with the Indigenous people of the Peruvian rainforest who are defending their ancestral lands from new legislation that would allow land and resources to be sold without their consent.
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Equity and inclusion 10 June 2009 Education International calls for an end to child labour
Every year at this time, members of Education International (EI) join with other trade unions and concerned citizens around the globe to mark the World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June.
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Union renewal and development 5 June 2009 Attacks continue on Turkish teachers
Turkish police and security forces used excessive violence against teachers who were demonstrating for the right to collective bargaining.
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Standards and working conditions 5 June 2009 Taiwan: Teachers protest anti-union law
Members of EI’s affiliate the National Teachers’ Association of Taiwan are deeply concerned about a draft union law currently tabled in the Taiwanese Parliament.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 June 2009 Public-Private Partnerships in Education: A new EI study
EI has completed a new study into the increasing role and impact of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education systems across all continents.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 June 2009 Hands Up for Education! EI launches new web site on education and the economic crisis
Education International is working hard to persuade governments around the world of the need to invest in education as a positive response to the global economic crisis.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 June 2009 Urgent Action Appeal USA: Support for the Employee Free Choice Act
EI and its member organizations in the United States request your support for their campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The act would protect American workers’ rights to join unions and to bargain collectively, free from employer intimidation and threats of dismissal.
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Union renewal and development 2 June 2009 Worlds of Education: June edition now on-line
The latest edition of EI’s flagship publication focuses on the global economic crisis and the struggle of teacher trade unionists to ensure that governments worldwide include significant investment in education as part of their recovery plans.
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Trade union rights are human rights 29 May 2009 Turkish teacher activists arrested
Education International has written to the government of Turkey to condemn the fact that more than 30 members of Egitim Sen, EI’s Turkish affiliate, were arrested in the early hours of 28 May. In a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, EI deplores this latest police action against...
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Union growth 28 May 2009 EI launches Urgent Action Appeal for support for its affiliate in Ethiopia
EI has launched an Urgent Appeal today appealing for support from all member and partner organisations to lobby the Ethiopian authorities to allow the members of the ex-Ethiopian Teachers' Association (ETA) to register a new independent teacher organisation.
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Union renewal and development 22 May 2009 April 2009 issue of the EI Asia-Pacific newsletter now available for download
The latest issue of the newsletter of EI's Asia-Pacific region is now available for download in pdf format.
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Union growth 20 May 2009 World protests to demand union rights for Iranian workers
Four global union organisations representing over 170 million workers have called a worldwide action day on June 26 to demand justice for Iranian workers. Demonstrations will take place outside Iranian embassies and consulates to protest the ongoing denial of rights and arrests of trade unionists within the country.
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 May 2009 Iran: Son of teacher trade unionist detained
Sajad Khaksari, the 25-year-old son of one of Iran’s leading teacher trade unionists, was arrested on 26 April in Tehran and remains in detention in Ward 10 of the Evin prison.
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Equity and inclusion 12 May 2009 EI endorses UN statement on sexual orientation and gender identity
EI issued a statement today on the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia taking place on 17 May, highlighting its endorsement of the United Nations' statement on sexual identity and orientation.
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Standards and working conditions 11 May 2009 Seminar participants stress the importance of school leadership in achieving quality education
Participants at an EI school leadership seminar held in Helsinki last week called for more recognition of the important role principals and other school leaders play in ensuring the achievement of quality education.
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Standards and working conditions 7 May 2009 Education and research budget should increase to 11.6 % of GDP, says Spanish union leader
"A reduction of the drop-out rate, expansion of early childhood education, better vocational education and training, increased use of new technologies in education, a better adjustment of higher education to new European standards."
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Standards and working conditions 7 May 2009 Zimbabwe: teachers cancelled strike to show faith in government
Zimbabwean teachers cancelled their strike on 5 May to show their faith in the government, even though the interim US$800 monthly salary promised to them in February has yet to be paid.
Zimbabwe: teachers cancelled strike to show faith in government