Articles from Mexico
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Union growth 2016-09-26 Education unions take case of missing Mexican students to the United Nations
Six Education International affiliates from the Americas are joining forces to file a UN human rights complaint on behalf of the disappeared 43 Mexican student teachers and related rights violations of 137 others.
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Union renewal and development 2016-06-22 Education International condemns violence against educators in Mexico
Education International strongly condemns the escalating violence against teachers, students and citizens which resulted in 6 deaths on 19 June in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Equity and inclusion 2016-05-26 Mexico: indigenous teachers call for inclusive quality education
The second Indigenous Teachers’ Parliament of Mexico has asserted the pressing need to include all educators in the fight for an integrated quality education system that recognises all cultures by beginning in the classroom.
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Standards and working conditions 2016-04-04 Teachers are key to quality education and successful 2030 Education Agenda
The Teacher Target in the Sustainable Development Goals and Education 2030 must be implemented. This was one key finding from the 8th Policy Dialogue Forum - International Task Force on Teachers held in Mexico from 14-17 March.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2016-01-27 Mexican union launches anti-privatisation programme
Committed to defending the constitutional right to quality education, Mexican union SNTE is gearing up for a campaign to halt the spread of for-profit private education in the country.
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Union renewal and development 2015-09-08 SNTE mobilises its membership to improve education quality in Mexico
More than fifteen hundred teachers took part in a colloquium on public education reform organized by Mexican teachers’ union SNTE in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,on 4 and 5 September, with thousands following the discussions on line.
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Standards and working conditions 2015-05-11 Successful pay bargaining in Mexico
National collective bargaining by the Mexican trade union SNTE has ended with a significant pay rise for education workers, in recognition of their work with the children and youth of Mexico.
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Union renewal and development 2015-03-16 High-level meeting highlights common priorities of Mexican union and Education International
The defence of quality public education and teachers’ rights are at the centre of discussions between Education International and the Mexican teachers’ union SNTE, the largest in Latin America, in view of SNTE’s application for membership with EI.
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Union renewal and development 2014-12-08 Mexico: teacher appraisal no longer linked to student performance
Latin America’s largest teachers’ union has stood firmly behind its members through efforts to end the practice of evaluating educators based on the academic outcomes of their students.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2014-11-27 Mexico: 60 days and still no answers surrounding missing students
Despite international pressure for a thorough investigation, and demonstrations that continue to sweep the country, the fate of the 43 students who disappeared two months ago in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, remains unclear.
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Union growth 2014-11-12 Mexico: EI demands full investigation into disappearance of missing student teachers
News reports indicated a few days ago that the 43 Mexican students who disappeared in southern Mexico in September were abducted by police on order of a local mayor, and are believed to have been turned over to a gang that killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some...
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Union growth 2014-10-09 Thousands take to the streets in protest against students ‘disappeared’ by Mexican Police
Outrage across Mexico continues to grow as frantic search efforts are ongoing to find 43 students taken by Mexican municipal police alleged to be controlled by drug cartels in the city of Iguala.
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Union growth 2013-09-13 Mexican teachers protest against reforms
Mexican teachers have protested en masse after the government pushed through “supplementary” or “secondary” laws aimed at changing the Education Act, in particular aspects related to teachers’ careers.
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Union renewal and development 2013-02-27 Mexico education trade union leader arrested
Elba Esther Gordillo, General Secretary of the biggest education union in Mexico, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), is alleged to have misused more than USD 156 million from trade union funds from 2008-2012. SNTE was an EI affiliate until 2009, when it was suspended for failing to...
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Trade union rights are human rights 2011-09-23 Mexico: Teachers strike against threats and extortion
Thousands of school teachers in Acapulco, Mexico, have taken part in a series of strikes to condemn the on-going threats of violence, extortion, robbery and kidnapping which they have been subjected to in recent months.
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Standards and working conditions 2011-06-14 Mexico: Teachers protest against test-driven education
More than 70,000 teachers have marched through Oaxaca, Mexico, and taken strike action to protest against inadequate school funding and a recent policy that ties teacher compensation to standardised test results.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2008-07-30 Union meeting to precede International AIDS Conference in Mexico
The Global Union AIDS Programme is organising a two-day Labour AIDS Forum to facilitate trade union cooperation in advance of the biennial International AIDS Conference taking place in Mexico City from 3-8 August 2008.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2008-01-21 Mexico: International AIDS Conference, August 3-8, 2008
The 17th International AIDS Conference is taking place in Mexico City this year from 3-8 August. Representatives of EI will be present at the Conference to ensure that the critical issue of the education sector response to HIV/AIDS is kept firmly on the agenda.
Mexico: International AIDS Conference, August 3-8, 2008