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On 12 December, hundreds of teachers and public sector employees took to the streets, in a march organised by the Union Coordination Committee(UCC) to protest against the governmental failure to refer a new public sector salary scale for approval to the Parliament. They demanded a salary increase.

EI welcomes the release of three female members of KESK, the Turkish public services’ trade union confederation. The three, released on 13 December by the Ankara Court, include Güldane Erdo?an from the teacher union E?itim Sen, who has been imprisoned for 10 months.

A high level advocacy event was co-organised by UNESCO and the Government of Pakistan at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on 10 December, International Human Rights Day. Entitled ‘Stand Up for Malala – Girls’ Education is a Right’, the event was held with the purpose of advocating for the...

EI has launched a dedicated blog-style website as a new anchor point for its flagship magazine, Worlds of Education. Making maximal use of the internet for the magazine will better serve the needs of our readers and enable to distribute EI’s views more widely and easily.

EI, its affiliates and international organisations participated in the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign, from 25 November–10 December. They called for an end to gender-based violence and appealed to governments to prevent and protect women and girls from violence.

The EI member organizations in Eastern Africa asked Education International to step up its activities in support of teachers in Somalia and Djibouti. In Dar Es Salaam, where East African education unions met on 10-12 December, the Somalian representative said that the country has no longer a viable public school...

The Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second Degré (SNES-FSU), organised a week of action for trainees which took place between 26th and 30th November. Trainees are men and women who have passed the national competitive recruitment examination and must complete a year as a trainee teacher before they are given...

A child reading a colourful book to others sitting in a circle: this picture, entitled “Atin Africa Book Club: street kids read,” from Uganda, is one of the winners announced by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for the Reading Changed My Life Photo and Video Contest.

On International Human Rights Day 2012, Education International (EI) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) launched a new international teachers’ union project in Egypt, Georgia, Honduras and Zimbabwe.

As trade unions mark the International Day for Human Rights on 10 December, EI pays tribute to teachers and education workers around the world who fight for the right to live and work in dignity. These educators also fight for freedom of expression, assembly and association; the right to bargain...

According to media reports yesterday, at least 28 students and a teacher were killed when a mortar hit the Batiha school in al-Wafidin camp, a community of about 25,000 displaced people, about twenty kilometres northeast of the capital. The reports said Syria’s official Sana news agency accused Syrian rebel forces...

The Slovakian Trade Union of Workers in Education and Science (OZPŠaV), one of EI’s national affiliates, has announced the suspension of its strike after three days, due to the government’s willingness to engage in negotiations.

Security in schools and the lack of qualified teachers were just two topics discussed at an EI/Afghanistan Teachers' Association (ATA) seminar held in Kabul from 20-22 November 2012. The seminar, ‘Strategies to strengthen ATA and contribute to education development’ aimed to equip the education union with tools to provide students...

A number of groups are warning that a potential new trade deal could force countries across the Pacific region to impose new restrictions on copyright.

The European Union and the United States are set to launch talks early next year that officials say will create a trading bloc representing about half of the world’s economic output and nearly a third of global trade.

With World Trade Organisation negotiations stuck in neutral, a group of key WTO countries has launched a separate set of talks aimed at creating an International Services Agreement (ISA).

With World Trade Organisation negotiations stuck in neutral, a group of key WTO countries has launched a separate set of talks aimed at creating an International Services Agreement (ISA).

On the occasion of World AIDS Day (WAD) on 1 December, education unionists worldwide renew their commitment to ‘getting to zero’: Zero new HIV infections, discrimination and AIDS-related deaths.