Articles from Philippines
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Equity and inclusion 21 December 2012 Filipino teachers win battle against exploitation
Earlier this week, a U.S. federal court in Los Angeles ordered a recruitment agency to pay US$4.5 million in damages to 350 Filipino teachers. The teachers, recruited as part of a guest worker programme, had been forced into exploitive contracts after arriving in the United States.
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Standards and working conditions 8 June 2012 Philippines: Educators condemn new Government policy
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), one of EI’s affiliates in the Philippines, has objected to the new Government policy on Education, which proposes extending formal education by two years, without increasing the number of teachers, classrooms and other basic facilities.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2 November 2011 Philippines: education union condemns on-going political violence against teachers
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), one of EI’s affiliates in the Philippines, has denounced recent cases of teachers and union activists’ killings.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 October 2010 Philippines: World Teachers’ Day violently interrupted by military
EI is concerned to learn from Action and Solidarity for the Empowerment of Teachers (ASSERT) that elements of the Philippine armed forces used aggressive tactics against a peaceful demonstration by teachers on World Teachers’ Day.
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 November 2009 Teacher unions condemn principal’s beheading
Teacher unions around the world are condemning the kidnapping and brutal murder of an elementary school principal in the Philippines.
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Union growth 6 October 2009 EI supports ILO mission's denouncement of labour rights abuses in the Philippines
EI supports the results of the high-level fact-finding mission of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to the Philippines, which asked the government to categorically denounce the killings of workers and the rampant violations of trade union rights.
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Union growth 19 February 2008 Philippines: demonstration against privatization of education ends with police brutality
A peaceful demonstration organized by teachers and students defending quality public education in the Philippines was violently dispersed by law enforcement officers last January 31. As a result of police brutality, 23 demonstrators were injured. Other 6 demonstrators were arbitrarily arrested.
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Trade union rights are human rights 6 August 2007 EI urges Philipines government to address extrajudicial killings
Education International has written to the President of the Philippines following an urgent resolution adopted at the 5th World Congress calling on the government to immediately put a stop to extrajudicial killings and involuntary disappearances.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 July 2007 Philippines: Workshop on Reducing Dropouts in Basic Education and Achieving EFA by 2015
In June, Education International got together with its affiliates in the Philippines to address the issue of drop out rates in basic education and to prepare a joint national work plan for the unions on reducing drop out in the country.
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Union renewal and development 23 February 2006 Philippines landslide: EI offers solidarity assistance
On behalf of all its member organisations, EI has expressed its sympathy to its four affiliates in the Philippines after the entire village of Guinsaugon, in the town of St Bernard on the southern part of Leyte, in the central Philippines, was buried by a major landslide on Friday 17...
Philippines landslide: EI offers solidarity assistance