Articles from Pakistan
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Union growth 27 March 2013 EI condemns shooting of Pakistani woman teacher
Shahnaz Nazli, a 41 year old female teacher at a girls’ school near the town of Jamrud in Peschawar, Pakistan, was shot for wanting to teach girls, on Tuesday March 26th as she walked to school. Gunmen opened fire, when Ms Nazli was just 200 metres from the school, and...
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 October 2012 EI Executive Board condemns the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai
At its meeting in Brussels from 16-18 October, the Executive Board of Education International, which represents 30 million teachers and other educators worldwide, condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the shooting by the Taliban of the fourteen year old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, because of her efforts to promote girls...
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Union growth 15 October 2012 EI strongly condemns attack on school girls
Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year old school girl and a campaigner for girls’ right to education was attacked on October 9 on her way home from school in Mingora, north-western Pakistan. Two gun men boarded a bus full of school girls, asked for Malala by name, shot her in the head...
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Union renewal and development 25 May 2011 Pakistan: New schools open after flooding
EI welcomes the opening of new schools in rural parts of Pakistan which were devastated by flooding last July.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 March 2011 Pakistan: Striking teachers win negotiations for better conditions
More than 7,000 Pakistani teachers have called off their indefinite strike after the Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, issued a special directive in relation to upgrading teachers’ conditions bringing uniformity to pay scales within the education system.
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Union renewal and development 30 August 2010 Pakistan: Teachers come to the rescue of flood victims
With EI's help, three Pakistani teachers' organisations will support thousands of educators who lost their homes and personal belongings. They will provide up to 30,000 victims with aid supplies including clean water, clothing and tents.
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Trade union rights are human rights 28 November 2007 Pakistan: Protests after the arrest of trade unionists during state of emergency
The Council of Global Unions*, headed by the EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen, protested against the arrests of several trade union leaders following the imposition of the state of emergency earlier in November.
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 January 2007 Pakistan: Sindh High Court ruled that the ban on teacher unions is illegal
On 12 Dec 2006, the High Court of the Sindh province in Pakistan ruled in favour of the Sindh Primary Teachers' Association in a case against the provincial government's ban on all activities carried out by teacher unions. The Court declared the government's ban "unlawful and of no legal effect".
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Union renewal and development 12 May 2006 Relief for victims of the South Asia Earthquake of 2005
The South Asia Earthquake struck the Pakistan-administered and parts of the India-administered region of Kashmir on 8 October 2005. It registered a magnitude of 7.6 and caused widespread devastation. Almost 90,000 people died and more than 4 million were directly affected.
Relief for victims of the South Asia Earthquake of 2005