Articles from Guatemala
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 September 2024 Guatemala: Murder of teacher and union leader René Sucup Morán condemned worldwide
Education International and its Regional Committee for Latin America condemn the murder of René Sucup Morán, a teacher and STEG union leader, and call on the government to ensure an immediate and full investigation. The international trade union and education community insists that this crime must not go unpunished and...
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Trade union rights are human rights 31 May 2024 Guatemala: Education union leaders under attack for defending quality public education
Education International Latin America (EILA) has written to the government of Guatemala to protest the persecution of the leadership of its member organisation in the country, the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Educación de Guatemala (STEG).
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Future of work in education 20 April 2023 Go Public! Fund Education: Global campaign launched in Latin America
Education International affiliates from across the region came together to coordinate their work on the new global campaign and to urge governments to invest more in public education in their countries.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 December 2019 "Inclusive Schools as a Political and Social Rights Space", by Gabriela Sancho Mena.
Gabriela Sancho Mena
An inclusive public school must be a space where everyone has a place. It is a right that must help strengthen all skills and abilities and encompass all the diversities in our society. It must also be a place of opportunity, reflection, debate, participatory action, invention, questions, research; a secular,...
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Leading the profession 26 September 2019 Right to authorship, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
Education International's decision to encourage discussion of an International Treaty concerning the exceptions and limitations to copyright for educational and research activities is both timely and necessary. The obstacles imposed on these activities by the excessively restrictive regulations in this area become remarkably difficult to overcome in the current context,...
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Union growth 25 July 2019 “Education Unions and the Struggle for Democracy”, by Hugo Yasky.
Hugo Rubén Yasky
“As we approach the centenary of the birth of Paulo Freire, whose teachings continue to inspire and influence our actions, the Latin American Pedagogical Movement, EILA and its national member organisations embody the collective will to defend education as a social right and a powerful means for the emancipation of...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 March 2019 #IWD2019 #Education Voices: “Educating Girls Matters: How You Can Help Change the World”, by Kayce Freed Jennings
Kayce Freed Jennings
This is true: educating girls will change the world. We know that. So why, then, are there still 130 million girls out of school and what can we do about it? What can you, as educators, do about it? What can your students do?
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 December 2018 #UDHR70 – “A banner of struggle for humanity”, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it seems inevitable that we ask ourselves whether in the ensuing time we have succeeded in advancing its goals, or whether those principles have ended up being nothing more than a well-intentioned, but ultimately futile statement of a humanistic...
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Democracy 25 July 2018 In Latin America, teachers and students champion the right to attend university, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
15 June marked the centenary of the university reform led by the student movement in Córdoba, Argentina. This pioneering reform paved the way for a democratic reconstruction of academic institutions that shook the entire region. The transformation of Latin American public universities became a permanent battleground between those who yearned...
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Union growth 4 July 2018 Defending the right to education! Latin American teachers’ unions fighting against making education a business, by Gabriela Sancho
Gabriela Sancho
What is becoming increasingly significant in the rest of the world has long since been reality in Latin America; education as a business. To get parents to send their children to fee-paying private schools and students to attend expensive private universities, the public education system has had to be maligned...
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Union growth 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Union growth 25 November 2008 Guatemala: teacher union leader's life threatened
Joviel Acevedo has experienced many threats during his career as a union leader, but recently he was shocked to see reports in the media of his own assassination. The Guatemalan Education Workers Union (STEG) is concerned that the false news of their General Secretary's death was meant to threaten and...
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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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Union growth 23 March 2007 Guatemala: Stop repression, start negotiation, demands EI
EI has written to the President of Guatemala on 21 March supporting the demands of its member organisation, the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Educación de Guatemala (STEG).
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Union growth 16 December 2005 Guatemala: Urgent Action Appeal update
EI issued a letter to its Latin American colleagues on 8 December, urging them to step up their solidarity with Guatemalan affiliate, the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Educación (STEG).
Guatemala: Urgent Action Appeal update