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Articles from Pakistan

  1. 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...

    EI condemns shooting of Pakistani woman teacher
  2. 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...

    EI Executive Board condemns the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai
  3. 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...

    EI strongly condemns attack on school girls
  4. 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.

    Pakistan: New schools open after flooding
  5. 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.

    Pakistan: Striking teachers win negotiations for better conditions
  6. 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.

    Pakistan: Teachers come to the rescue of flood victims
  7. 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.

    Pakistan: Protests after the arrest of trade unionists during state of emergency
  8. 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".

    Pakistan: Sindh High Court ruled that the ban on teacher unions is illegal
  9. 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