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   Standards and working conditions 3 November 2026

   Botswana: Unions warn that crumbling infrastructure and unmet needs threaten the right to quality public education

   Botswana’s education unions are calling for renewed public investment in school infrastructure, teacher support, and learning resources, arguing that quality public education can only be achieved through funding that reaches classrooms and school communities where it is most needed.

   Botswana: Unions warn that crumbling infrastructure and unmet needs threaten the right to quality public education

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   Trade union rights are human rights 5 June 2025

   International Labour Conference: Workers’ Group supports call to strengthen Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel

   Addressing the Committee on the Application of Standards at the International Labour Conference on June 3rd, EI President Mugwena Maluleke responded to the report of the joint ILO-UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART). As the Workers’ Group spokesperson, Maluleke welcomed the proposal...

   International Labour Conference: Workers’ Group supports call to strengthen Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel

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   Leading the profession 21 October 2020

   “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.

   Cherine Sabry

   Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...

   “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.

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   Equity and inclusion 12 March 2020

   Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."

   madeleine kennedy macfoy

   Examples of the work done by Education International and its member organisations in different parts of the world since the Beijing Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, demonstrate the power of taking collective action to find collective solutions.

   Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2019

   “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.

   Mugwena Maluleke

   African nations actively participated in the development of the Sustainable Development Agenda that acknowledged the centrality of education in the achievement of all other plans for a better world. Like other nations of the world, they committed to the provision of a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious...

   “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.

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   Trade union rights are human rights 22 June 2017

   Botswana: 66th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration

   Education International welcomes the move by Botswana to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, a commitment to protect students, teachers, schools, and universities during times of war.

   Botswana: 66th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration