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Annual report 2020

Throughout this challenging year, Education International drove union solidarity across borders and shaped the global agenda on education.

Scroll through the timeline below to find out more about our work in 2020.

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January

13 January 2020

The privatisation of education under the spotlight in the Caribbean

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14 January 2020

Kenya: Union calls for increased security as four teachers are killed in the first weeks of 2020

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16 January 2020

India: Outcry from international education community over violent attacks on university students and staff

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24 January 2020

International Day of Education: the world needs another 69 million teachers

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27 January 2020

Holocaust remembrance: Education unions come together for Auschwitz memorial ceremony and Holocaust education conference

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24 January 2020

Privatisation of education in Morocco. A multi-speed education system and a polarised society.

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February

February 2020

Solidarity with colleagues in the Philippines

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4 February 2020

Malawi: International solidarity helps union to lead post-natural disaster relief activities for teachers

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28 February 2020

Syria: EI condemns the targeting of schools in the war

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March

2 March 2020

Empower to lead: EI’s Development Cooperation Network meets in Brussels

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March 2020

COVID-19: Education unions stand united and mobilise

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16 March 2020

States must provide for teaching indigenous and minority children in their own language

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April

9 April 2020

Teachers’ struggles pay off: World Bank to freeze investment in private for-profit schools

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22 April 2020

Iran: Leading teacher unionist arrested again

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May

4 May 2020

EI African Regional Committee adopts statement of COVID-19 impact and re-opening of schools

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4 May 2020

EI Asia-Pacific Regional Committee adopts statement on COVID-19

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17 May 2020

Council of Global Unions Statement | LGBTI rights are a union issue

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June

June 2020

International Summit on the Teaching Profession

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12 June 2020

Educators against child labour: best practices to help eradicate child labour post Covid-19

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30 June 2020

EI/AOb Child Labour Projects | Transnational Best Practices and Union Impacts

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16 June 2020

Teacher professional development and curriculum Enhancing teacher professionalism in Africa

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July

July 2020

Solidarity with our colleagues in Jordan

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2 July 2020

Council of Global Unions Joint Solidarity Statement | Justice for Lee Cheuk Yan and ensuring fundamental rights in Hong Kong

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27 July 2020

Public education – critical for preserving indigenous languages and cultures

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August

10 August 2020

"Support staff are the infrastructure of the world", by Lorretta Johnson.

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11 August 2020

Lebanon: International solidarity as education sector reels from impact of explosion

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17 August 2020

Haiti: Education International condemns arbitrary transfers of education trade union leaders

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31 August 2020

Belarus: Condemnation of violence against peaceful protesters

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September

3 September 2020

Korea: Supreme Court annuls decision to delegalise union

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18 September 2020

Education has a role to play in highlighting facts of climate change

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22 September 2020

Education International joins initiative for climate literacy

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October

October 2020

World Teachers' Day 2020: Taking the lead

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9 October 2020

Global Unions call upon the World Bank and the IMF to support public investment

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13 October 2020

IMF must support public investment and stop public sector wage bill constraints

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16 October 2020

New Study Examines Privatisation of Education in the Dominican Republic

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28 October 2020

Executive Board adopts resolution on the role of education in stimulating critical thinking and freedom of expression and promoting democracy

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27 October 2020

Teaching with Tech: The role of education unions in shaping the future

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26 October 2020

The bedrock of inclusion: why investing in the education workforce is critical to the delivery of SDG4

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November

2 November 2020

Colombia: Campaign Launched to Combat Death Threats Against Trade Unionists

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5 November 2020

Statement | Education International Welcomes the First International Day against Violence and Bullying at School including Cyberbullying

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19 November 2020

The Global Climate Literacy Campaign

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December

1 December 2020

Educators seek to influence UNESCO's 2021/22 Global Education Monitoring Report

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9 December 2020

Education International urges government intervention to stop union-busting in Kenya

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9 December 2020

Education International responds to terrorist attacks in Mozambique with support for member organisation ONP

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9 December 2020

Colombia: Global Education Union condemns threats, harassment, and killings of unionists

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11 December 2020

Five years into the Paris Agreement – Education International calls for governments to step up action on the climate emergency and prioritise the implementation of climate literacy for all

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17 December 2020

Nigeria: Education International calls for immediate release of students kidnapped by jihadist group

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