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News 12 October 2021 New research: IMF imposed austerity slashes three million frontline workers from world’s most fragile education and health systems
New research by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine progress on health and education.
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News 7 October 2021 Cape Verde: Government commits to enhancing teaching profession by 2023 on World Teachers’ Day
The Cape Verdean government has promised to resolve outstanding issues for teachers by 2023. This was confirmed by the Education Ministry at a meeting on World Teacher's Day, 5 October, with the Federaçao Caboverdiana dos Professores (FECAP).
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News 6 October 2021 World Teachers’ Day: Teaching profession is key to effective and equitable recovery – and must be supported through the COVID-19 crisis
On World Teachers’ Day, 5 October, Education International’s President, Susan Hopgood, highlighted how too many educators paid the ultimate price during the pandemic to ensure quality education for their students.
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News 4 October 2021 New global report points to overworked, underpaid, and undervalued teaching profession
Report assesses status of teachers and the teaching profession in an era of COVID-19
On World Teachers’ Day, education unions are raising the alarm as new research shows that teachers around the world are overworked, underpaid, and undervalued.
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News 4 October 2021 World Teachers’ Day: We are present, we remember, we take action
On 5 October, World Teachers’ Day, Education International and its member organisations pay tribute to teachers, education support personnel and union members lost to COVID-19, reminding the world’s governments of their responsibilities to ensure safe working conditions and vaccine equity.
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News 1 October 2021 Taiwan: Employers must ensure education workers’ paid leave to participate in school activities
The National Teachers’ Association (NTA) in Taiwan prioritised the needs of working parents in its advocacy to mark Taiwanese Teachers’ Day on 28 September.
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News 28 September 2021 Mexico: job security for teachers
Responding to the demands of Mexican teachers, the general secretary of the SNTE (national education workers’ union), Alfonso Cepeda Salas, and the public education minister, Delfina Gómez Álvarez, awarded 44,642 permanent positions to some 36,000 education workers in Mexico City.
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News 3 September 2021 Iraq: Renewed commitment to improve operation and delivery of education in Kurdistan
Quality education and health and safety in education received a boost with a recent visit from Kurdistan’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research to the Secretariat of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU). Both parties reiterated their commitment to seeking best solutions to protect the education community and guarantee quality...
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News 31 August 2021 Mexico: Trade union secures agreement for a safe return to face-to-face classes
After almost eighteen months of lockdown measures, Mexican teachers have expressed their commitment to support a cautious, orderly and responsible return to the classroom for the 2021-2022 school year.
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News 18 August 2021 Iraq: Trade union’s ongoing struggle to ensure decent living conditions for educators
The Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU) continues to advocate adequate housing for teachers in the Kurdistan’s Iraqi region.
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News 10 August 2021 Taiwan: Union celebrates a decade of fighting for educators’ rights
To mark its 10th anniversary, the National Teachers’ Association (NTA)/National Federation of Teachers Union (NFTU) of Taiwan has reaffirming its commitment to fight for teachers’ right to organise as public sector employees and to professional development.
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News 2 August 2021 Rwanda: SYPERWA stands by teachers during the crisis
Rwandan education workers’ union SYPERWA organised a tour to meet teachers from private schools and help them solve the problems encountered. Thanks to Education International’s COVID-19 solidarity fund, the union has been able to map the issues for teachers affected by COVID-19, provide legal assistance to teachers suspended as a...
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News 15 July 2021 Chad: the SET supporting teachers during the COVID-19 crisis
Throughout the crisis, the Chad Teachers Union (SET, Syndicat des Enseignants du Tchad) has focused on listening to and supporting teachers. To this aim, the union carried out a large-scale survey to better understand the impact of the pandemic on teachers and to assess the effectiveness of distance learning.
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Statements 7 July 2021 Eswatini: Education International calls for democracy, freedom of association and respect for human rights
Education International, the global federation representing 32.5 million teachers and education support personnel in 178 countries, including Eswatini, is seriously concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, which has resulted in hundreds of deaths, abductions, and disappearances.
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News 29 June 2021 Lebanon: Teacher unions committed to delivering quality education amidst worst economic crisis in 30 years
Lebanon has been hit with two extraordinary crises in the past two years: the explosion of the Beirut port and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Lebanese educators and their unions have risen to the challenges presented by public health, economic, and refugee crises.
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News 28 June 2021 OECD Study: Precarity of Academic Research Careers
Academic careers have become increasingly precarious, endangering rights, subjecting workers to difficult working conditions and stress. The OECD, at the initiative of its Global Science Forum (GSF) has published a study that makes nine recommendations to improve the situation.
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Statements 25 June 2021 Convention 190 can change lives | Joint statement of the Global Union Federations and the International Trade Union Confederation
The adoption of International Labour Organization (ILO)Convention 190 andRecommendation 206 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work is a victory for the trade union and labour movement. The adoption of these instruments is the culmination of years of campaigning and lobbying by trade unions, and in particular women...
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Publications Training of Trainers Toolkit on the ILO Violence And Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206)
25 June 2021Training of Trainers Toolkit on the ILO Violence And Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206)The historical adoption of the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention 190 (C190) and Recommendation 206 (R206) in 2019 by the International Labour Conference has created a new momentum in the fight against violence and harassment – including gender-based violence and harassment - in the world of work.