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Global conference: Education is the key tool to end child labour
Decent work for education support personnel now!
Statement: Teachers and trade unionists in Iran must be immediately and unconditionally released!
International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2022: Governments and teachers’ unions working together to leave no-one behind
The pandemic - moving forward: Governments and teacher unions working together to leave no-one behind
Governments must uphold migrant workers’ rights, access to justice and decent work
Afghanistan: reaffirming strong support for exiled trade unionists and for the return of democracy, freedom and equality
Ukraine: Education unions, national and local authorities, and international organisations mobilise to ensure access to education for all refugee students
Afghanistan: As the Taliban regime undermines education, peace and human rights, Education International and its member organisations step up their actions
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News 25 May 2022 United States: Teachers demand immediate action on guns, as 21 are killed in elementary school shooting
Educators around the world stand in solidarity and grieve with the students, teachers, school staff, parents, and the entire community of Uvalde, Texas – the scene of yet another school shooting that has taken the lives of 19 children and 2 teachers in the United States. Education International calls for...
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News 25 May 2022 Afghanistan: As the Taliban regime undermines education, peace and human rights, Education International and its member organisations step up their actions
Education International’s Afghanistan Teachers’ Rights Observatory (ATRO), to be launched in September 2022, is the latest in a series of strong actions undertaken demonstrating the global education community’s solidarity with Afghan educators and populations, who are undergoing great hardship under the rule of the Taliban.
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News 23 May 2022 Rabat Declaration underlines the need for international standards to bring all political abuses of religions to a halt
The participants in the Rabat Global Conference held in Morocco’s capital city from May 11-12 adopted the Declaration reasserting the need to coordinate efforts to build global consensus on setting international rules to eliminate the use of religion in violating human rights. They called on the international community and all...
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News 19 May 2022 Technology in education: Strengthening the leadership of the teaching profession
A major area of interest before the pandemic, the use of technology in education has become a key priority for Education International in the context of the sudden and large-scale expansion of technology in the sector as a result of Covid-induced lockdowns. EI’s work in this area includes the development...
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News 19 May 2022 Global conference: Education is the key tool to end child labour
Education International and its member organisations underlined the importance of educators and their unions to eradicate child labour during the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour held in Durban, South Africa, from 15-20 May. They also highlighted the need to provide teachers with training, and to ensure...
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News 18 May 2022 Governments must uphold migrant workers’ rights, access to justice and decent work
Education International has joined other Global Union Federations in pushing the world’s governments to fully implement the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) formally endorsed by the UN General Assembly on 19 December 2018. They aim to ensure the GCM adheres to human and labour rights standards,...
Governments must uphold migrant workers’ rights, access to justice and decent work