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World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy was forced to call off plans for a mini-Ministerial meeting last month after key countries failed to bridge their differences.

India’s higher education regulators are proposing new rules to combat an influx of low-quality, private higher education providers into the country.

Labour unions and civil society organizations in Canada are expressing outrage over the recent announcement that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has reached a free trade deal with Colombia.

Seven primary and middle school teachers in the South Korean capital Seoul have been fired for giving students and parents a choice about whether to take a national standardised test.

EI’s General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen got immediate agreement when he called on World Bank President Robert Zoellick to defend the Millennium Development Goals, and especially Education for All, against the ravages of the current financial and economic crises.

As from January 2009, both EI member organisations and members of the public are now able to consult the policy documents of the global union federation that represents employees in the education sector worldwide.

Anti-unionism is a widespread phenomenon in the USA. Senator Bill Hare of Illinois from the Democratic Party spoke to a global union gathering in Washington DC on 13 January on the Employee Free Choice Act. The Act is a legislation proposed to ensure that workers have a free choice and...

The Global Campaign for Education has chosen "Youth and Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning" as the theme for the 7th Education for All (EFA) Global Action Week taking place from 20-26 April 2009.

Education International (EI), which represents 30 million educators worldwide, including the teachers’ organizations of Israel and Palestine, calls on the governments in both Gaza and Israel to do everything possible to prevent more children becoming victims of the current violence.

EI has been informed that on December 18, Farzad Kamangar complained of severe pain and low blood pressure due to a chin inflammation, and he was again denied access to medical treatment.

Education International is committed to achieving quality Education For All, both in word and deed, and helping to train more highly-qualified teachers is at the heart of that commitment.

Twenty four unionists from across twelve Caribbean countries met in St Lucia for the Caribbean regional workshop of the EI EFAIDS Programme. During the four day meeting participants evaluated 2008 activities and finalised plans for 2009, and together developed new strategies to tackle education and AIDS topics.

CARVEE, a new inter-union network to support Senegalese teachers living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, emerged from the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) held in Dakar from December 3- 7.

Real progress on climate change will require collective action by governments worldwide, with the support and involvement of a whole range of social institutions, including trade unions.

Around the globe teachers and students led the massive outpouring of solidarity on World AIDS Day within their schools, workplaces and communities. EI’s engaging activity ‘One Hour on AIDS’ was just one of the ways that teachers and their unions showed their commitment to educating about HIV and AIDS issues...

Bilingual and multicultural education is not only “important for the human rights of Indigenous Peoples, but also for all other children, as well as for humanity as a whole, collecting and conserving relevant knowledge to help our planet survive,” EI Vice-President Susan Hopgood told participants in the EI seminar on...

Education International, the global voice of teachers and the world’s largest international union federation, is strengthening its support of national unions and workers’ rights by publishing its Trade Union Rights Manual, a guide for union activists around the world. The launch of the Manual is to coincide with the 60th...

“Quality education and social justice for Indigenous peoples” is the theme of Education International’s Indigenous educators’ seminar to be held 6 December 2008 in advance of the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education in Melbourne.