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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 December 2025 Cambodia: Trade unions’ united push for greater national investment in public education and teachers
The Cambodian education system continues to face acute teacher shortages, with average class sizes reaching around 44 students in rural areas and up to 71 students in major cities such as Phnom Penh. Teachers’ salaries also remain insufficient to ensure a decent standard of living, contributing to low morale, high...
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Standards and working conditions 11 March 2025 Education unions from Southeast Asia strategise next steps of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign
Education International (EI) member organisations from Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines came together in Bangkok on March 7 to discuss and plan the next stage of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign in their countries and the region.
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 January 2021 Cambodia: Educators join global trade union wave of solidarity with union leader Rong Chhun
Education International is joining with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to express solidarity with Cambodian union leader Rong Chhun prior to his trial on 15 January.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 August 2020 Cambodia: Join the campaign to free jailed union leaders
Education International has stepped up its efforts to secure the release of two jailed Cambodian union leaders.
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 August 2020 Cambodia: Education International calls for the immediate release of arrested trade union leader
Leading trade unionist and president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions Rong Chhun was arrested on 31 July after voicing criticism of the government. Education International has protested the arrest in a letter to the Prime Minister of Cambodia, calling for the immediate release of Mr Chhun and for human...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 December 2018 Asian women union leaders join forces to combat bullying and sexual harassment in schools
Top women education unionists from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have taken stock of their 2018 activities focusing on anti-bullying and research on sexual harassment, and adopted a 2019 action plan to push forward action.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 July 2018 Cambodia: education becomes an overarching theme of the electoral campaign
While it is a matter for rejoicing that education has become a major subject of the debates during the current electoral campaign in Cambodia, education trade unionists have particularly underlined the financial shortcomings of the national school systems, which the public authorities have to remedy.
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Union growth 20 March 2018 Cambodia: Global union movement unites in defence of fired education employees
The International Trade Union Confederation and Education International have strongly condemned Cambodian public authorities’ decision to fire 11 teachers and education officers.
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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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Union growth 24 January 2014 Cambodia: Teacher union leader released
EI is relieved to learn that Mr Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodia Independent Teachers' Association (CITA) and of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU), was released a few hours after his arrest on 21 January.
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Union growth 21 January 2014 Cambodia: EI requests the immediate release of teacher union leader Rong Chhun
Mr Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodia Independent Teachers' Association (CITA) and of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) was arrested by the police on 21 January while attending a workers’ meeting in Phnom Penh.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 January 2014 Cambodia: EI condemns violence against striking garment workers
EI has strongly condemned the continued disproportionate violence perpetrated by Cambodian authorities against striking garment workers. Five workers have been killed, dozens injured and at least 39 arrested. The strike has been halted but demands for an increased minimum wage are maintained.
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Equity and inclusion 17 July 2012 US Secretary of State calls for workers’ and women’s rights
Supporting workers’ rights and women’s rights would help to ensure a more just global economy. That’s according to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, who addressed a Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy Dialogue in Cambodia on 12-13 July.
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Trade union rights are human rights 28 June 2012 Cambodia: National Confederation Union denied recognition
The Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (CITA), one of EI’s national affiliate, has condemned the fact that the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) has again been denied formal government recognition as a trade union confederation. Made up of seven unions and associations, the CCU represents more than 90,000 workers nationwide.
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Standards and working conditions 10 May 2011 Cambodia: Survey finds low pay, corruption, and lack of training challenge teachers
The Cambodian Independent Teachers' Association (CITA) has published the results of a national survey to identify the challenges faced by teachers face in their workplace and within the union movement.
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Union growth 4 May 2007 Cambodia: Unions Call for Justice for Murdered Unionists
A joint statement was issued on 1 May by all Cambodian trade unions, including EI member organisation the Cambodia Independent Teachers' Association (CITA), calling for investigation into the murder of trade union leaders.
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Union growth 19 January 2007 Cambodian unionists do not forget the murder of their leader three years ago
EI's affiliate in Cambodia, the Cambodia Independent Teachers Association (CITA), and the Cambodia trade union centre (FTUWKC, Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia) will mark the third anniversary of the murder of Chea Vichea, the President of the Cambodia trade union centre. He was gunned down...
Cambodian unionists do not forget the murder of their leader three years ago