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In 2011, the World Day against Child Labour focuses on children engaged in hazardous work. This year again, Education International (EI) joins the activities organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) around 12 June.

Almost 3,000 teachers in Swaziland have marched to the South African and US embassies to insist on an international asset freeze against the country’s absolute ruler, King Mswati III, alleging corruption and mismanagement of national resources.

“In many countries, core labour standards are far from fully applied for the teaching profession” EI’s representative told the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday.

Researchers from Exeter University Dr. Elizabeth Wood and Dr. Martin Levinson presented key findings of the new EI Research Institute’s study Equity Matters at the European Trade Union Committee on Education (ETUCE) Standing Committee for Equality held from 25-26 May in Brussels, Belgium.

EI has expressed concern at the resignation of more than 50 experts from a Czech Education Ministry Working Group which was supposed to design a plan to improve disadvantaged children’s education.

At this week’s International Labour Conference, members of the International Labour Organisation will be presented with recommendations to support the safety of domestic workers, including provisions to combat child domestic labour.

The Southern Cone Women’s Network of EI’s Latin America Region met from 6-7 June in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to evaluate the results and challenges of EI’s World Women’s Conference held in Thailand in January 2011.

Countdown to Congress! The 6th World Congress of EI will convene in Cape Town, South Africa, in 50 days! Congress related events will begin with the EI/PSI Sexual Diversity Forum on 18 July and conclude with the final session of Congress itself on 26 July. In between there will be...

The controversial Wisconsin law which proposed to take away most collective bargaining rights from public workers has been struck down by a circuit court judge. However, the ruling will not be the final say in the union fight that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets this year.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) is mounting a legal challenge in the British High Court to contest its government’s proposal to make changes to its members’ pension scheme.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) is mounting a legal challenge in the British High Court to contest its government’s proposal to make changes to its members’ pension scheme.

EI’s European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) has met in Brussels to review key issues for teachers’ unions and education across the region.

A delegation of international, European and Belgian trade unions, including Education International (EI), delivered a letter of protest to the Bahrain Embassy in Brussels on 26 May to condemn the on-going attacks on the trade unionists in Bahrain. Embassy officials refused to give an audience to the delegation led by...

Fifty representatives of European teacher trade unions met in Brussels this week at the annual ETUCE Equality Committee. The discussions focused on overcoming gender stereotypes in and through education, on measures to achieve economic empowerment of women, and on steps to make trade unions places of equality, empowerment and respect...

The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF), which is affiliated to EI’s member organisation the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, has announced that its members will be withdrawing their voluntary services as part of an on-going dispute over terms and conditions.

EI has broken new ground today by addressing the full Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the need to tackle youth unemployment and gender inequality.

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

Education is one of the 11 most essential dimensions for a better life, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).