Articles from Brazil
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 March 2019 Brazil: international solidarity after Suzano school shooting
After last week’s shooting at a school in Sao Paolo educators worldwide have shared their solidarity and grief with their colleagues, students and families in Brazil.
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Union growth 8 March 2019 #IWD2019 #Education Voices: “The Political Participation of Women and Their Prominent Role in Brazil’s Trade Union Movement”, by Fátima da Silva.
Fátima da Silva
Until recently, women in Latin America had achieved unprecedented levels of political participation with the election of women presidents in several countries in the region. Dilma Rousseff (2011–2016), Cristina Kirchner (2007–2015) and Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010 and 2014–2018) all served two terms as elected presidents in Brazil, Argentina and Chile, respectively....
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Union growth 19 December 2018 #UDHR70 – “A banner of struggle for humanity”, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it seems inevitable that we ask ourselves whether in the ensuing time we have succeeded in advancing its goals, or whether those principles have ended up being nothing more than a well-intentioned, but ultimately futile statement of a humanistic...
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Union growth 31 October 2018 Education trade union community strongly condemns the persecution of educators in Brazil
Education International fully supports its Brazilian affiliate, the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação, in its denunciation of a newly elected parliamentarian’s attempt to shackle teachers’ freedom of speech.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 July 2018 In Latin America, teachers and students champion the right to attend university, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
15 June marked the centenary of the university reform led by the student movement in Córdoba, Argentina. This pioneering reform paved the way for a democratic reconstruction of academic institutions that shook the entire region. The transformation of Latin American public universities became a permanent battleground between those who yearned...
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 July 2018 Brazil: trade union’s resistance to attacks on education
The Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação has been successful in pushing back a bill in the Brazilian Parliament that would prevent the expression of any political, ideological, or partisan ideas in classrooms.
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Union growth 4 July 2018 Defending the right to education! Latin American teachers’ unions fighting against making education a business, by Gabriela Sancho
Gabriela Sancho
What is becoming increasingly significant in the rest of the world has long since been reality in Latin America; education as a business. To get parents to send their children to fee-paying private schools and students to attend expensive private universities, the public education system has had to be maligned...
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Equity and inclusion 16 May 2018 Discovering more about Education Support Personnel, by Philippa Butler
Philippa Butler
Education Support Personnel (ESP) play a vital role in promoting quality education, fostering a safe and positive learning environment for all students, and ensuring that schools and education institutions function effectively. ESP cover a wide range of people working in the education sector, such as teaching and learning assistants, school...
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Union growth 11 April 2018 Education unions mobilise to reinforce Brazilian democracy
Education International took part in a solidarity rally for Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in front of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 April.
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Trade union rights are human rights 6 April 2018 Education International urges Brazil to revert to ‘beacon of democracy’
In the light of violence that culminated in the murder of Brazilian politician and city councilor Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro on 14 March, and with the judicial and media persecution of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Education International has urged President Temer to ensure the respect...
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Union renewal and development 6 March 2018 Supporting south-south cooperation development
South-south solidarity is a cooperation mode that EI has been helping to happen for many years now.
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Union growth 26 January 2018 Brazil: concerns over the long-standing campaign targeting former President Lula
In a letter to Brazilian President Michel Temer, Education International (EI) expressed great concern over the long-standing campaign of defamation and political harassment against former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Union renewal and development 16 November 2017 Brazil: Latin American unions gear up for national challenges in education sector
On 15-17 November, education unions from 19 Latin American countries assembled in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, for Education International’s 11th regional conference.
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Union growth 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 March 2017 Brazilians launch indefinite strike against pension reform
The Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación joined massive protests in Brazil on Wednesday, 15 March to oppose the pension system reform proposed by President Michel Temer’s interim government.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 January 2017 Brazil: Education union mobilises new faces to defend quality public education
At its recent Congress, the Confederaçao Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação’s implemented change by electing a new Executive Board and called for a national education strike to defend quality public education.
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Union renewal and development 12 January 2017 Brazil: education, democracy and resistance
More than 2,500 teacher leaders gather in Brasilia, Brazil, this week for the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE)’s congress, debating topics inspired by famous educator and philosopher Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy.
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Equity and inclusion 19 March 2015 Indigenous education gains progress in Brazil
Brazil’s national education union has taken a major step towards boosting the status of indigenous education within the national system after hosting its First National Indigenous Educators’ Meeting in Sao Paulo this month.
Indigenous education gains progress in Brazil