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G20 labour and employment ministers met yesterday with President Obama and presented him with their recommendations to meet the challenges that the economic crisis is posing for workers and their families worldwide. This was the first time that ministers responsible for labour markets in the 20 largest economies in the...

The global economy has taken a "double whammy", first the financial crisis, now the disruption of global air travel by the volcanic cloud across Europe...

Honorable Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Colleagues, Friends,

Action Aid International has released its second quarterly media survey on violence against girls in schools in 18 African countries for the period from October to December 2009.

For the past 10 years theColegio de Profesores de Chile(CPC) has been carrying out a project they call the Pedagogical Movement, a unique kind of teacher union research project.

At the latest EI EFAIDS African regional meeting, 28 teacher unionists from across the continent tackled the perennial issue of securing access to education for all children while guaranteeing quality teaching, and shared their experiences of lending support to colleagues living with HIV and promoting behaviour change for HIV prevention.

All around the world, vast numbers of human beings are on the move – fleeing war zones, escaping injustice or seeking better life chances for themselves and their children. Global migration flows have increased for many reasons. Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants has more than tripled in OECD...

We've all heard stories about struggling students who were falling further and further behind their peers (and whose interest in school was waning along with their grades) until someone, usually a teacher, pushed the right button. And, all of a sudden, those students had a renewed interest in school and...

This year’s Global Action Week will focus on adequate funding for education and will have the slogan “Financing quality public education: a right for all.” Global Action Week will take place from 19 to 25 April, a key moment exactly 10 years after the adoption in Dakar of the Education...

To mark International Women’s Day, 8 March, Worlds of Education asked women trade unionists one key question: What is the most positive development you see on the road to gender equality? Here are some of their thoughts.

Environmental education is a passion for Ouedraogo Ousséni. A teacher at Municipal School C in Kaya in the north-central region of Burkina Faso, he has been developing a plant nursery project with his Year 6 pupils since 2000.

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.

“We have, above all, a feeling of satisfaction with the success that Benin, through the various actors involved in education, has continuously managed to achieve in terms of development of the education system,” says Maoudi Johnson, National Coordinator of Benin’s Education for All programme in the Ministry of Pre-school and...

Conceived of as an open space for dialogue within global civil society, the World Social Forum was first held in 2001 in Porto Alegre, acting as a counterbalance to the annual World Economic Forum held in Davos. Under the slogan "A different world is possible," participants in the WSF propose...

The controversial Copenhagen Accord, ratified early in the hours of 19 December, is the least that the international community could have agreed in order to recognise and begin to avert the worst expected consequences of global warming. After two decades of scientific study and two years of negotiations, reaction around...

As world leaders meet at COP 15 to negotiate a global agreement to avert climate catastrophe, students and teachers in Copenhagen are taking concrete steps towards making their school carbon neutral by 2015 – a full decade before their city aims to achieve carbon-neutrality.

Colleagues, Friends, Distinguished Guests,

Below is the speech given by the EI Deputy General Secretary, Jan Eastman, at the Plenary of the 54th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.