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Reports from international aid organisations project that hundreds of thousands of Somali schoolchildren are expected to drop out from classes this month as a result of the humanitarian crisis in the country. EI’s affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has called on the international community to provide the humanitarian...

Teachers in the Fukushima region of Japan have joined other trade unionists to protest against the continuing nuclear emergency. The teachers, who are members of the Fukushima Prefecture Teacher’s Union, are fighting to hold the government and the power company TEPCO responsible and accountable for the nuclear disaster in Japan.

EI welcomes the opening of new schools in rural parts of Pakistan which were devastated by flooding last July.

In solidarity with teachers, students and the people of Japan, EI has established a solidarity fund to aid relief efforts after the powerful earthquake that hit the country on 11 March.

Education International has sent a message of support to its affiliate in Japan after a devastating earthquake hit the north-east of the country on 11 March, triggering a massive tsunami and causing extensive damage and loss of life.

EI affiliates in New Zealand are bringing urgent relief to teachers and students in communities that were badly affected by a devastating earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, which struck the region around Christchurch on 22 February.

On the first anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of towns and communities across Haiti, killing 230,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless, EI has pledged to continue its solidarity with the country.

With EI's help, three Pakistani teachers' organisations will support thousands of educators who lost their homes and personal belongings. They will provide up to 30,000 victims with aid supplies including clean water, clothing and tents.

Education unions around the world remain committed to helping colleagues in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that hit the country on 12 January, 2010.

EI members and emergency workers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are struggling to get aid to communities cut off by Tropical Storm Agatha which battered the region over the weekend.

The Executive Board of EI affiliate CNEH is working on an Action Plan, after getting feedback from the Federations, and the preparations for the International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 8-10 April.

In its statement today at the United Nations International Donors' Conference towards a New Future for Haiti, held in New York, the United States, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reiterated that "decent work must be central to the reconstruction efforts of Haiti and to shape a new development model...

On the afternoon of 12th January 2010, Jean Lavaud, General Secretary of the Confédération Nationale des Educateurs d’Haïti, was visiting his union colleague Magalie Georges at her Port-au-Prince school, utterly unaware that in a matter of moments their city and their lives would be changed forever.

Five years after the cataclysmic tsunami of December 2004, Education International is proud to release a video documentary on its most ambitious development cooperation project ever – to build and equip 35 schools in the devastated region of Aceh, Indonesia.

To date, a total of 250,000 US dollars have been raised after the Urgent Action Appeal launched by EI for Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit the country on 12 Jan.

After the catastrophic events last weekend when an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile, on behalf of all member organisations around the world, EI expresses its concern and support to the Colegio de Profesores de Chile (CPC) and the Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación Chilena (CONATECH).