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Trade union rights are human rights 14 December 2009 Interview with Denis Burke of the World AIDS Campaign
Denis Burke of the World AIDS Campaign emphasises the importance of approaching HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment work from a human rights perspective.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 December 2009 International Human Rights Day: EI condemns attacks on Somali graduation ceremony
As the world marks 10 December, International Human Rights Day, Education International once again asserts that the right to education is a fundamental and inalienable right of every person, and denounces last week’s bombing of a graduation ceremony in Somalia.
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 December 2009 Declaration on "Schools as Safe Sanctuaries"
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 December 2009 EI launches Declaration on Schools as Safe Sanctuaries
Acid attacks on Afghan girls, drive-by shootings of Colombian teachers, assassination of Iraqi academics and students, arson of schools in Thailand: These are only a few examples of the increasing violent political and military attacks on education. Urging the world to protect and defend education, EI has issued a formal...
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 December 2009 World AIDS Day 2009: Teachers commitment strong as universal access deadline looms
As 2010 the target year for the fulfilment of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support approaches teacher unions around the world are using World AIDS Day 2009 as an opportunity to redouble their work on AIDS and equally to petition governments to make the investment necessary to overcome...
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 November 2009 EI condemns shooting by gunman at Pecs University in Hungary
A student opened fire on classmates at Pecs University in southern Hungary, killing one student and wounding three persons, before turning himself in.
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Union growth 24 November 2009 Turkey: 22 teachers unionists released after 6 months of unjustified detention
“They are free. Egitim-Sen would like to thank you for your strong support. This is the success of international solidarity,” wrote Mehmet Bozgeyik, General Secretary of the Turkish teacher union to EI.
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Union growth 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 22 October 2009 Fiji authorities further infringe trade union rights of teacher association
Tevita Koroi, President of Fijian Teachers Association, has been officially informed by the Ministry of Education that he will no longer be accepted as the representative of the FTA at major institutional education forums.
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Trade union rights are human rights 22 October 2009 Iranian government continues persecuting son of teacher trade unionists
Sajad Khaksari, the son of two of Iran’s leading teacher trade unionists, remains in prison in Tehran even though he has been acquitted on all three charges against him.
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Union growth 10 October 2009 Education International against the death penalty: Teach abolition!
10 October is the World Day Against the Death Penalty. This year, actions and initiatives across the globe focus on “Teaching abolition.” Education International supports these activities and joins other unions, NGOs and individuals in their fight for the abolition of the death penalty.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 October 2009 Iran: teacher unionists arrested for "celebrating World Teachers' Day"
EI deplores the detention of 11 members of the Tehran teacher association on 6 October for "celebrating World Teachers' Day".
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Trade union rights are human rights 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 29 September 2009 Colombian teachers face highest rates of political violence: Education International
A study to be released today by Education International highlights the atrocious scale of human rights violations against Colombian teacher trade unionists.
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Union growth 25 September 2009 Another teacher killed in post-coup violence
Teachers and trade unionists across Latin America have issued a strong denunciation of the violence and murders that have taken place since the military coup in Honduras, and call for the restitution of the country's legitimate president.
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Union growth 24 September 2009 Latin American educators confront political and economic crises
Fears of a return to dictatorship and political violence in Honduras are compounding the grave economic crisis facing countries across Latin America.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 September 2009 EI EFAIDS in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is the latest country to join the EI EFAIDS Programme. The Papua New Guinea Teachers’ Association, which represents half of the country’s 40,000 teachers, recently held its first training workshop. Twenty-one participants from across the union structure met in Port Moresby for three days of discussion and...
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 September 2009 EI EFAIDS Programme Thrives in Post-Conflict West Africa
The electric generator was running outside the classroom and the rain pounded on the corrugated zinc roof. The noise might have been a distraction to some, but not to the 30 EFAIDS participants of the National Teachers Association of Liberia (NTAL). 30 teachers met in Monrovia, motivated, focussed, and thirsty...
EI EFAIDS Programme Thrives in Post-Conflict West Africa