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Trade union rights are human rights 7 July 2026 Panama: ILO complaint details how teachers and union leaders were detained, intimidated and harassed
In June 2026, during the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conference, Education International (EI) formally submitted a complaint on behalf of the Magisterio Panameño Unido (MPU) to the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA).
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Democracy 16 June 2025 Panama: Government crackdown on trade union for defending teachers' rights
It will soon be two months since members of the MPU, union affiliated to Education International, began an indefinite strike and protests in defence of teachers’ right to a decent pension. Far from showing any willingness to negotiate, the national government has responded with repression and is continuing its brutal...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 December 2019 "Inclusive Schools as a Political and Social Rights Space", by Gabriela Sancho Mena.
Gabriela Sancho Mena
An inclusive public school must be a space where everyone has a place. It is a right that must help strengthen all skills and abilities and encompass all the diversities in our society. It must also be a place of opportunity, reflection, debate, participatory action, invention, questions, research; a secular,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 September 2019 Right to authorship, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
Education International's decision to encourage discussion of an International Treaty concerning the exceptions and limitations to copyright for educational and research activities is both timely and necessary. The obstacles imposed on these activities by the excessively restrictive regulations in this area become remarkably difficult to overcome in the current context,...
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Union growth 25 July 2019 “Education Unions and the Struggle for Democracy”, by Hugo Yasky.
Hugo Rubén Yasky
“As we approach the centenary of the birth of Paulo Freire, whose teachings continue to inspire and influence our actions, the Latin American Pedagogical Movement, EILA and its national member organisations embody the collective will to defend education as a social right and a powerful means for the emancipation of...
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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...
#UDHR70 – “A banner of struggle for humanity”, by Yamile Socolovsky
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