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Equity and inclusion 4 August 2008 Teachers' unions support GLBT rights
"If we want education to be the main vector to achieve equal rights and combat discrimination, teachers themselves must first be set free," said EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen. He was speaking in Stockholm on 1 August at a seminar on "gay rights in education" organized by the Swedish...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 1 August 2008 Doha Ministerial Collapses: WTO members vow to regroup
After nine grueling days of negotiations, trade ministers meeting in Geneva July 21-30 admitted defeat in their attempts to reach a new global trade deal, but promised to regroup at a later date.
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Union renewal and development 1 August 2008 New issue of the Africa Regional Bulletin available for download
The latest issue of the Africa Regional Bulletin is now available for download.
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Trade union rights are human rights 31 July 2008 Ethiopia: EI asks government to amend its draft bill on associations
EI has written to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to deplore that the Charities and Societies Proclamation, a draft law, is a covert means of placing civil society organisations under government control. EI joined Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in their criticism of the proposed legislation.
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 Putting the 'C' in ABC
The recent controversy in South Africa on making condoms available in schools highlighted what remains a sensitive issue in some societies. The fear that sex education combined with access to contraception, including condoms, encourages young people to have sex at an early age is a very real concern for many...
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 EFAIDS Workshops in Venezuela and Dominican Republic
Recent workshops in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic reflect the growing emphasis on intra-regional partnership. In this spirit of cooperation, Gabriela Bonilla of the EI Latin American Regional Office in Costa Rica and Rosario Avila from the Honduran teacher union movement travelled to facilitate workshops in Caracas and Santo Domingo.
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 NANTU launch workplace policy
The Namibia National Teachers’ Union, NANTU, has produced a comprehensive HIV and AIDS Workplace Policy. The document, which was drafted in consultation with the legal assistance centre in Namibia, was launched on 21 June during the National Teachers’ Council Meeting. NANTU plans to attune their EFAIDS activities to the policy...
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 EFAIDS Workshop in Bamako
Mor Mbengue, Deputy Secretary General of the Senegalese Union Démocratique des Enseignantes et des Enseignants du Sénégal (UDEN) travelled to Bamako, Mali to share his knowledge of the new EFAIDS toolkits with Malian colleagues. Forty national facilitators of the Malian Syndicat National de l’Education et de la Culture (SNEC) from...
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 Union meeting to precede International AIDS Conference in Mexico
The Global Union AIDS Programme is organising a two-day Labour AIDS Forum to facilitate trade union cooperation in advance of the biennial International AIDS Conference taking place in Mexico City from 3-8 August 2008.
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 Contribute the union view on HIV/AIDS in the World of Work
The first round of consultation on the drafting of the ILO Recommendation on HIV/AIDS in the World of Work will soon close.
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 Greater global effort needed to achieve 2010 goal on HIV/AIDS
One of the highlights of the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS held in New York on 10 - 11 June was the presentation of the progress report on the implementation of the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 July 2008 Interview with Odete Cossa, Technical officer, World Health Organisation – Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO)
Odete Cossa recently joined WHO/AFRO and will liaise with the EFAIDS Programme in sub-Saharan Africa. She provides us with an insight into her work and her perspective of the EFAIDS partnership.
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Standards and working conditions 30 July 2008 COPE, UNESCO and UNICEF to hold conference on Improving Status of Teachers
Together with UNESCO and UNICEF, EI's sub-regional organisation, the Council of Pacific Educators (COPE) will be holding a conference on "Improving the Status of Teachers as per ILO-UNESCO's 1966 Recommendation and promoting Children's Rights to Quality Education".
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Union renewal and development 24 July 2008 Masters Programmes for Trade Unionists now Open for Application
As part of the Global Union Research Network, EI strongly supports the international masters programmes on labour studies. They offer an excellent opportunity for EI member organisations to strengthen their capacities to face the challenges of globalisation.
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Standards and working conditions 22 July 2008 Guatemala: New government brings positive change for teachers and students
Six months ago, the newly elected centre-left government of Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom Caballeros started reversing the privatization of the school system. The government also introduced collective bargaining in the public sector. As a result, a few weeks ago the unions were able to sign a new collective agreement that...
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Trade union rights are human rights 22 July 2008 Nigeria: EI expresses its support to the national strike action of Nigerian teachers
On 30 June, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) launched a national strike action to press the federal government to implement the promised Teachers’ Salary Structure.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 July 2008 New GATS framework released ahead of "do or die" Ministerial meeting
With trade ministers set to meet in Geneva the week of July 21 in what is being billed as the last ditch effort to complete the troubled WTO Doha Round of trade talks, the chair of the services negotiations has released a controversial new framework to guide the discussions.
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Trade union rights are human rights 18 July 2008 US Democrats woo teachers' unions
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is determined to help American educators create better opportunities for all children by improving education quality throughout the United States. He criticized the Bush administration for having failed to give teachers the means to achieve the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act, which...
US Democrats woo teachers' unions