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The 10th Education International (EI) World Congress, meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 29 July to 2 August 2024 notes:

1. Considering and recognising that Education International (EI) has as one of its fundamental principles the promotion of freedom and democracy through education.
2. Recognising with enormous concern the growth of the extreme right which is promoting and disseminating hate speech, misogyny, xenophobia, racism and all forms of discrimination that permeate societies.
3. Recognising that hate speech, misogyny, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination have likewise permeated of school institutions, where limitations can already be seen in their autonomy and curricular practices, as well as in the procedures imposed on the performance of their professionals, which are, at the very least, restrictive of their professional autonomy.
4. Emphasising the fundamental role that trade union organisations can and must play in the fight for the democratisation of schools and in responding to these problems.

The 10th World Congress of Education International:

5. Mandates the Executive Board to consider creating a Special Task Force to address these issues, in order to:

1. obtain a diagnosis of the situation at international level;
2. suggest ideas and proposals to enforce our agenda in the promotion of the values of freedom and of educational construction on a democratic basis, thus avoiding the promotion of hate, scientific denialism and false facts and information;
3. promote measures that seek to permanently validate curricular practices based on scientific veracity, cooperation between professionals and the effective construction of school systems that promote humanistic, democratic and inclusive values for all.