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Trade union rights are human rights 17 December 2020 Mexico: COVID-19 must be considered an occupational disease
The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) has asked the Mexican Ministry of Public Education to ensure that COVID-19 is considered an occupational disease. This is just one measure to facilitate the safe return to presential teaching and learning.
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 May 2020 Latin America: Social dialogue and quality public policies to overcome the COVID-19 crisis
The Regional Committee of Education International Latin America (EILA) has prepared a declaration regarding the safe reopening of schools in the region.
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 May 2020 Latin America: Women Education Workers Unite in the Face of Pandemic
Representatives from the gender, equity and equality units of EI member unions across Latin America were invited by the regional office to participate in a virtual meeting last Wednesday to reflect on the situation of women in general, and women educators in particular, in the time of COVID-19.
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Union renewal and development 6 December 2019 Latin America, united more than ever against neoliberalism and the extreme right
The representatives of the trade unions of the education sector affiliated with Education International Latin America (EILA) met in Brazil on 3, 4 and 5 December to chart the course of the Latin American Educational Movement.
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Union renewal and development 3 May 2019 Latin America, Prepared for the EI World Congress
The regional committee of Education International Latin America (EILA) met from 24–27 April in Argentina to decide on the policy that will guide the region over the coming months.
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Union renewal and development 19 February 2019 Latin America
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Union growth 23 August 2018 #EI25: “When Ordinary People Demand Justice”, by Lily Eskelsen García
Lily Eskelsen García
Sometimes what touches us at an international meeting isn’t what’s on the agenda. It’s what was outside on the street. Sometimes it’s the crushing courage of tiny, fragile grandmothers who would not be stopped and who serve as an example to all social justice activists of what we are called...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 3 August 2018 Argentina: Education International denounces multi-million peso fine for strike
The right to organize into trade unions in order to fight for better working conditions and a dignified treatment is an internationally recognized right.
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Climate action and literacy 27 July 2018 Latin America: Public education is a social right and is essential to building equality
Public education is a social right that must be guaranteed, maintained and financed by the government, and it is essential to building equality. This is the overarching message of the educators who gathered at the Regional Meeting of Education International Latin America (EILA) in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Union renewal and development 8 February 2018 Latin America
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Indigenous Peoples and teachers unions
- Host organizations
- Lärarförbundet-Sweden and UEN-Norway
- Cooperating organizations
- Lärarförbundet-Sweden and UEN-Norway
- Countries
- Latin America
- Start date
- 1 January 2018
- End date
- 31 December 2019
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Pedagogic Movement of Latin America
- Host organizations
- Education International, Regional Office for Latin America
- Cooperating organizations
- Lärarförbundet-Sweden and UEN-Norway
- Countries
- Latin America
- Start date
- 1 January 2018
- End date
- 31 December 2019
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Union renewal and development 24 November 2017 International partnership with the Pedagogical Movement
The Norwegian education union (Utdanningsforbundet, UEN) has supported the Latin American “Movimiento Pedagógico” since its inception.
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Union renewal and development 16 November 2017 Brazil: Latin American unions gear up for national challenges in education sector
On 15-17 November, education unions from 19 Latin American countries assembled in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, for Education International’s 11th regional conference.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 26 September 2017 Latin America: a unified strategy in defence of quality public education
With a growing number of countries in Latin America hit by the privatisation and commercialisation of education, the response, coordination and strategy is reaching higher levels.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 November 2012 Colombia:Colombia:
Miguel Angel Beltran