Articles from Colombia
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Union growth 31 May 2012 ILO Conference: Visa denied to EI Executive Board member
Senen Niño Avendaño, President of the Federación Colombiana de Educadores (FECODE) and a member of the EI Executive Board, together with two other leaders of the Colombian teachers’ union, has been refused an entry visa to Switzerland where they were to participate in the Conference of the International Labour Organisation...
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Equity and inclusion 25 May 2012 Colombia: Show of strength to eradicate child labour
Common strategies to influence public policy to eradicate child labour must be articulated by education unions. This is essential for the promotion and defence of education as a fundamental right.
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Equity and inclusion 5 December 2011 On the way to education for equality
The EI Latin America Women’s Network met in Bogota, Colombia, on 2-3 December to discuss and strengthen the defense of public education as a basic human right.
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Union growth 27 June 2011 EI condemns the murders of more teachers in Colombia
EI condemns and expresses its deep sorrow at the murders of four more teachers in Colombia: Dionis Alfredo Sierra Vergara was murdered on 15 May; Carlos Julio Gómez was shot on 26 May; Freddy Antonio Cuadrado Núñez was killed on 27 May, and Alejandro José Peñata López on 20 June....
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Union growth 16 June 2011 Colombia: Political prisoner Miguel Beltran absolved of all charges
EI is delighted to report that Dr. Miguel Angel Beltran has been released from a Colombian prison after being absolved of the charges of ‘rebellion’ and ‘criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes’.
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Union growth 16 February 2011 Colombia: killing of teacher unionists must end
The Colombian teacher and trade unionist, Carlos Alberto Ayala, was shot dead on 5 February. The gunmen who murdered him had been laying in wait for him as he returned to his home in Puerto Asís.
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Trade union rights are human rights 31 January 2011 Colombia: Murder of teacher unionists continue into 2011
EI condemns the brutal murder of Colombian teacher trade unionist, Manuel Esteban Tejada, on 10 January. His assassination brings the death toll to 28 teacher unionists who have been killed in Colombia in the past year.
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Union growth 8 November 2010 Colombia: EI demands release of imprisoned professor
EI has launched a new Urgent Action Appeal to call on the Government of Colombia to release Miguel Ángel Beltrán Villegas, a university professor and trade unionist who has been imprisoned.
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Union growth 10 September 2010 EI demands release of imprisoned Colombian professor
EI has launched a global on-line petition calling on the Colombian government to release Miguel Ángel Beltrán, a university professor and trade unionist who has been imprisoned on charges that violate his basic right to academic freedom.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 August 2010 Colombia: Teacher trade unionist killed as violations continue
Education International has expressed dismay as news emerged that another teacher trade unionist has been killed in Colombia. This latest murder brings to 17 the total number of teachers that have been killed in 2010 alone.
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Union growth 3 June 2010 Teachers murdered in Colombia: Twenty years of impunity
Some men wearing masks came into the classroom and shot him, right in the middle of our lesson. They didn’t give him a chance to say anything. One of the masked men lifted our teacher’s dead body by the back of his shirt and spoke to us: ‘This man had...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 15 April 2010 Trade unions condemn EU-Colombia deal
Trade unions in Europe and in Colombia are speaking out against a new free trade agreement charging that it provides political support to a regime in Colombia that is deeply implicated in gross violations of human rights and labour standards.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 April 2010 Colombia: EI takes action to end the killing of teachers
Education International is leading the way to develop new strategies to end the violence being inflicted upon teachers and members of our global federation.
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Trade union rights are human rights 18 March 2010 Dreadful toll of assassinations mounts in Colombia
Colombian teacher Duvian Dario Rojo Cadavid and his wife were enjoying an early evening walk together in the municipal park of their home town of Puerto Berrío when they were shot dead by unknown assailants on 13 March, the day before senatorial elections. Their deaths bring the total number of...
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Trade union rights are human rights 29 September 2009 Colombian teachers face highest rates of political violence: Education International
A study to be released today by Education International highlights the atrocious scale of human rights violations against Colombian teacher trade unionists.
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 April 2009 Two more teachers murdered in Colombia
Ramiro Cuadros Roballo and Walter Escobar Marín, both members of SUTEV, a teacher union affiliated to FECODE, and two other trade-unionists were assassinated last month, as the violence against trade union activists continues to mount.
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 March 2009 The killing of teachers in Colombia should stop, says EI.
A total of three teachers were targets of assassination last February in Colombia. Two of them were killed, and one barely survived. EI voices its strong protest to the authorities, requesting a better protection of teachers facing threats to their lives.
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Equity and inclusion 29 April 2008 Equality officers throughout Europe ask for the release of Ingrid Betancourt
The members of the EI Pan-European Equality Committee who met from 1-2 April, signed a petition asking for the release of Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt.
Equality officers throughout Europe ask for the release of Ingrid Betancourt