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Articles from Brazil

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2012

    Brazil: March to strengthen public education

    On 5 September, over 10,000 protesters took to the streets of Brasilia and other Brazilian states under the banner: Independence equals quality education and decent work. They demanded the strengthening of public education through the approval in 2012 of the National Plan for Education.

    Brazil: March to strengthen public education
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 July 2012

    Brazil set to spend 10% of GDP on public education

    On 26 June, Brazil's National Congress made history by setting the percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to be spent on public education at 10 per cent. After months of struggle, EI’s affiliate, Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE), has achieved one of its most important objectives of recent...

    Brazil set to spend 10% of GDP on public education
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 June 2012

    Rio+20: EI representatives join labour movement activities

    Two big rallies were organised during the Earth Summit, Rio+20, gathering of world political leaders: the “World March of Women” against the “false green economy”, and the March of the “Peoples' Summit” on 20 June, convened by the CUT, the main Brazilian trade union centre in Brazil. EI was represented...

    Rio+20: EI representatives join labour movement activities
  4. Standards and working conditions 14 March 2012

    Brazil: Teachers strike over low pay

    Public school teachers in Brazil have joined a national strike from 14-16 March. EI’s affiliate, Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE), is coordinating the nationwide movement aiming at achieving two key demands.

    Brazil: Teachers strike over low pay
  5. Trade union rights are human rights 19 April 2011

    Students return to Brazil school where gunman shot 12

    Students have returned to the school in Brazil where a gunman killed 12 children on 7 April. Those killed were between 10 and 13 years old, and all but two were girls.

    Students return to Brazil school where gunman shot 12
  6. Trade union rights are human rights 8 April 2011

    EI expresses solidarity following school shooting in Brazil

    On behalf of teachers and education workers around the world, Education International extends sincere condolences to the families and school community of the victims of the tragic shooting that took place on 7 April in Tasso da Silveira primary school in the Realengo district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    EI expresses solidarity following school shooting in Brazil
  7. Equity and inclusion 13 December 2010

    Global LGBT movement to join human rights allies

    More than 300 activists from 76 countries have participated in the 25th World Conference of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Global LGBT movement to join human rights allies
  8. Trade union rights are human rights 26 July 2010

    Brazil: Rio considers bullet-proofing favela schools

    Authorities in Rio de Janeiro have come under renewed pressure to bulletproof up to 200 schools in conflict-stricken areas, after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet during a maths lesson.

    Brazil: Rio considers bullet-proofing favela schools
  9. Standards and working conditions 4 August 2008

    Brazilian teachers win national standard professional wage scale

    Brazilian educators are celebrating a new law that establishes a national standard salary, bringing to an end decades of inequity between teachers’ salaries in different regions of the country.

    Brazilian teachers win national standard professional wage scale
  10. Trade union rights are human rights 19 May 2008

    Promoting Health Education in Brazil

    The 2nd National Seminar on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) /AIDS, organised by the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) between March 31 – April 2, 2008, provided an opportunity for debate and progress on themes related to the EFAIDS programme.

    Promoting Health Education in Brazil
  11. Trade union rights are human rights 21 January 2008

    Brazil: CNTE joins EI in the fight against HIV/AIDS and STDs

    Last October CNTE/Brazil joined the EFAIDS Programme. The union kicked off their programme activities with a national level seminar on STDs and AIDS, which took place in Brasilia from October 2-4.

    Brazil: CNTE joins EI in the fight against HIV/AIDS and STDs
  12. Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 June 2007

    Brazil issues generic license for AIDS drug

    In the latest test of the WTO’s rules on intellectual property rights, Brazil has issued a compulsory license for the patented AIDS drug efavirenz that will allow companies to import and eventually manufacture generic versions of the drug more cheaply.

    Brazil issues generic license for AIDS drug
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 May 2007

    Brazil: CNTE March for Education

    Members of Brazilian EI affiliate the CNTE took to the streets in force to mark the 4th national march for education on 25th April; an initiative organised as part of the National Week in Defence and Promotion of Public Education.

    Brazil: CNTE March for Education
  14. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 April 2006

    Global Action Week 2006: Meeting with Brazilian President Lula

    In Brazil, education personnel and activists join hands in a large-scale mobilisation for the goal of Education For All as part of Global Action Week - an international mobilisation taking place this week.

    Global Action Week 2006: Meeting with Brazilian President Lula