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Union growth 7 July 2009 EI launches Urgent Action Appeal for Turkey
In recent weeks, EI member organisation Egitim-Sen and the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions (KESK) – to which EI’s member is affiliated – have suffered a series of attacks by the Turkish authorities, including the occupation and searches of the trade union premises by the security forces, arrest and preventive...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 July 2009 EI stresses the rights of academic staff at UNESCO's World Conference on Higher Education
In her address on the opening day of UNESCO's second World Conference on Higher Education in Paris, EI Vice-President Irene Duncan Adanusa stressed the rights of academic staff and the need for the full application of the 1997 Recommendation outlining those rights.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 July 2009 UK: "Say no to academic vandalism"
The University and College Union (UCU) which represents further and higher education staff in the United Kingdom is holding a national day of protest on 3 July.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Senegalese unions advocate for more support for girls’ school attendance
The Senegalese teacher unions have completed a survey of schools to identify the progress made and challenges faced in achieving gender equality in schools as part of their EFAIDS Programme.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Uganda: EFAIDS Boosts Training of Teachers on HIV and AIDS
The Uganda National Teachers’ Union with their EFAIDS partner the National Union of Educational Institutions held a highly successful four day ‘training of trainers’ workshop in Kampala in early June. The Master Trainers are now well equipped to carry out local level training on HIV and AIDS education for their...
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Zambian union promotes leadership in the HIV Response
The Zambia National Union of Teachers held a 3-day Trainer of Trainers Workshop in Livingstone in early June. Organised to introduce participants to the updated EFAIDS resource, ‘Leadership in the HIV Response’ the workshop brought together regional EFAIDS Coordinators from each of the nine regions of the country.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Over one hundred trained in EFAIDS Workshops in St Vincent & the Grenadines
Training for both teachers and the wider community has been the focus of the EFAIDS Programme of the St Vincent and Grenadines Teacher Union in recent months. Master trainers Oswald Robinson, Gloria Endeavour and Rudolph Roberts coordinated the training sessions and reached over one hundred people.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Surinamese Teachers Trained on HIV and AIDS
Since the beginning of 2009 the Surinamese unions participating in the EFAIDS Programme have been busy training teachers on HIV and AIDS issues.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Teachers and HIV &AIDS: Achievements and Challenges
Education International participated in the 15th annual meeting of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education which took place from 15- 17 June 2009 in Limerick, Ireland. A one day Symposium on the theme ‘Teachers and HIV & AIDS: reviewing achievements, identifying challenges’ preceded the meeting.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Teacher unions highlight need to tackle AIDS-related stigma and discrimination
Teacher unions working on the EI EFAIDS Programme shared their experiences with participants of the IIEP and UNAIDS-IATT Web Forum Report: ‘Teachers and HIV & AIDS: Reviewing achievements, identifying challenges’. Below are summaries of some of their contributions to the E-Forum.
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 July 2009 Convention on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work a distant goal
The 98th Session of the International Labour Conference, (ILC), took place in June 2009 in Geneva, and marked an important stage in the process towards the adoption of an international labour standard on HIV/AIDS.
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News 30 June 2009 EI expresses its solidarity with Honduran teachers
Following the removal of the President of Honduras, EI wishes to express its concern for the situation in the country and the violence carried out against protesters.
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Standards and working conditions 30 June 2009 South Korea: Arrests and disciplinary procedures against protesting teachers
EI’s member organisation, the Korean Teachers' and Education Workers' Union KTU (Jeon-Gyo-Jo), is facing heavy repression for criticising the government.
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Leading the profession 30 June 2009 Impact of the Economic Crisis on Education in Central and Eastern Europe
EI will host a high-level seminar on the impact of the economic crisis on education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for its member organisations in the region in Warsaw from 2-4 Sep 2009.
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Trade union rights are human rights 26 June 2009 EI joins with other trade unions to demand rights for workers and a free society in Iran
Education International, together with other Global Unions and a hundred trade unionists and human rights activists, demonstrated on 26 June in front of the Iranian Embassy in Brussels to demand justice for Iranian workers.
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Union growth 24 June 2009 EI to participate in Iran Action Day protest events on 26 June
Education International, together with International Trade Union Confederation, the European transport workers’ Federation, and other trade unionists, human rights activists and concerned individuals, will gather in front of the Iranian Embassy at 1.00 pm on Friday 26 June, at this Iran Action Day, to protest the lack of union rights...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 23 June 2009 WTO announces 7th Ministerial Meeting
Members of the World Trade Organization will hold a “scaled-down, no frills” ministerial conference in Geneva November 30 to December 2, the first formal gathering of trade ministers since 2005.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 23 June 2009 EU and Canada launch trade talks
The European Union and Canada have agreed on the main areas to be negotiated in a possible comprehensive economic agreement.
EU and Canada launch trade talks