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ITUC/Global Unions, IMF and World Bank high-level meetings in the USA

From 7-9 February, EI took part in the annual International Trade Union Confederation(ITUC)/Global Unions, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank high-level meetings in Washington DCat which trade unions challenged World Bank policies supporting and promoting the privatisation of education. Their opposition is based on the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation’s political and financial support for Bridge International Academies, clear evidence of the Bank’s promotion of privatisation in education.

Invitation to EI Seminar on Indigenous Rights in Canada

On 24 February, invitations to EI member organisations were issued for the EI Seminar on Indigenous Rights in Toronto, Canada, to be held on 22-23 July 2017. The event will take place prior to the World Indigenous Conference on Education.

UN CSW61 in the USA

Over 130 trade union participants from EI, ITUC, PSI and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) will attend the first week of the sixty-first session of the UNCommission on the Status of Women(CSW), to be held from 13-24 March in New York. The EI delegation of 19 participants from 13 trade unions will be led by EI’s chair of the Women’s Committee, Dianne Woloschuk, and EI Deputy General Secretary Haldis Holst. The GUFs have submitted a joint statement and written a Trade Union Guide to the CSW61.

EI has requested an intervention at the “Empowerment of Indigenous women” panel on 16 March. It will also co-organise two side events, “Teachers, Schools and Decent Work: the imperative to end school-related gender-based violence”, and “Linking education to economic empowerment for refugee women and girls”, as well as a parallel event, “Mobilising collective action for women’s economic empowerment”.