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Equity and inclusion 2006-03-07 Press Release 4/2006: International Women’s Day, 8 March - EI will focus on empowering women worldwide
Education International (EI) is marking International Women’s Day with a demand that governments do more to implement the 3rd UN Millennium Development Goal focusing on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2006-03-07 TradEducation News Issue 7 now available
The latest issue of TradEducation News, Education International’s publication to help affiliates understand the implication of GATS talks on public education, is now available in PDF format.
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Equity and inclusion 2006-03-06 EI Statement on the International Women's Day, 8 March 2006 - Public Quality Education to achieve Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
During the UN Millennium Summit in the year 2000, world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to achieving equal rights for women and girls by approving Goal 3 on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. It was not the first time that such a pledge had been made.
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Equity and inclusion 2006-03-03 Global Unions Oral Statement on Migration - 50th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women – 2 March, 2006
The international trade union organisations welcome the fact that migration has been placed on the Agenda of the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women as an emerging issue. The growing phenomenon of migration is of concern to global unions, represented here by Education International, Public Services...
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Union growth 2006-03-02 Ethiopia: international collaboration for the release of teacher unionist
EI is working with partner Global Union Federations, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), as well as Amnesty International for the release of Kassahun Kebede, chairperson of the Addis Ababa branch of EI affiliate, the Ethiopian Teachers' Association (ETA).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-03-01 EI Analysis of the Global Monitoring Report on Education For All 2006
The fourth EI Congress in Porto Alegre stressed that EI and teachers’ unions worldwide are committed to the success of the EFA initiative. In relation to this, each year UNESCO, on behalf of UN agencies, releases a “Global Monitoring Report” assessing the progress made on achieving the goal of EFA.
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Equity and inclusion 2006-02-28 Press Release 03/2006 - UN Commission on the Status of Women - CSW50: Encouraging women’s participation in decision making
Education International (EI) will take part in the discussions of the 50th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW50, New York, 27 February-10 March 2006), which this year will look into mechanisms for improving women’s representation in decision making bodies.
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Union renewal and development 2006-02-27 Education International: New appointments to executive board
Following its 26th Meeting last week, the Executive Board of Education International has announced two new appointments.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-02-24 Press Release 2/2006: Global Action Week 2006 (24-30 April) - Every child needs a teacher
Education International and its teachers' unions worldwide are playing a leading role in the Global Action Week to increase the pressure on governments to demonstrate greater leadership to ensure that all children get the chance to be taught by qualified teachers.
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Equity and inclusion 2006-02-20 Global Unions’ Statement to the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (United Nations, New York, 27 February to 10 March 2006)
Achieving Gender Equality In Decision-Making; Challenging Gender Biases In The Education And Health Sectors
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Trade union rights are human rights 2006-02-15 Iran: Union day of action
The Global Union Federations are supporting the international day of action in support of Iranian unionists following the continuing repression against the Trade Union of the Greater Teheran United Bus Company (Sherkate-Vahed).
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2006-02-15 Strasbourg: 30,000 join EuroManif demonstration
The EuroManif demonstration in Strasbourg yesterday saw up to 30,000 trade unionists vent fears that the proposed Services Directive could undermine European jobs and social standards.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2006-02-10 Major demonstration to take place in Strasbourg to prevent the inclusion of education in the proposed EU Services Directive
A campaign has been launched by the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) to exclude education from the proposed Directive on services in the internal EU market, first presented by the European Commission in Jan 2004.
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Democracy 2006-02-09 EI on Danish cartoon row: extra attention should be paid to teaching democracy and human rights
"Apparently, there is a reciprocal lack of understanding about the crucial importance of fundamental human rights like freedom of expression, that constitute the basis of democratic societies, and on the other hand, the religious feelings of millions of people in Muslim countries," said EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen, when...
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Union renewal and development 2006-02-09 WCT votes to join with EI
Meeting in the historic city of Sevilla, Spain, last week, the World Confederation of Teachers (WCT) approved the agreement negotiated by the two Executive Boards to join with EI in a new integrated structure.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-02-07 Uganda: study shows that teacher conditions have to improve to achieve Education For All
A study conducted in April 2005 by the Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) shows that the deteriorating working and living conditions of teachers are undermining efforts to achieve Education For All.
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Union renewal and development 2006-02-06 Worlds of Education No 17 (Jan-Feb 2006) now available
The Jan/Feb 2006 issue of Worlds of Education, Education International’s bi-monthly magazine, is now available.
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Union renewal and development 2006-01-27 Global Unions prepare the future
Global Union Federations (GUFs) held their Annual Conference in Brussels 10-11 January. General Secretaries of the 10 GUFs, representing many millions of employees in the main sectors of the global economy, dealt with an impressive list of issues facing the global trade union movement.
Global Unions prepare the future