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Equity and inclusion 9 November 2017 Spotlight on role of teacher unions in the eradication of child labour
Education International will represent teachers and stress their unions’ active role in ensuring quality education for all at the 4th Global Conference on Child Labour.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 October 2017 Nobel Laureate leads historic march across India to keep children safe
When Kailash Satyarthi commits there is no way of stopping him, which was evident as millions followed his call to end the sexual abuse and trafficking of children in what was the country’s biggest march.
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Equity and inclusion 27 June 2017 German education union directs its efforts and resources to eradicating child labour
The teachers’ union GEW has announced that its German Fair Childhood Foundation has agreed to fund three child labour eradication programmes in Mali, Nicaragua and Tanzania.
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 June 2017 Education unions work to ensure a child’s place is in school, not at work
This year’s World Day Against Child Labour has focused efforts on the fallout of conflicts and disasters, and how they are catalysts for pushing millions of children into labour or into the hands of traffickers.
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Equity and inclusion 11 June 2017 Education International - working globally to end child labour
EI helps education unions implement projects to fight child labour in 13 countries: in Albania, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ivory Coast, India, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nicaragua, Uganda, in Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe. Most of these projects aim at developing child labour free zones.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 4 May 2017 From the classroom to the world and back: educators take on a global perspective
In a search for solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing people around the world, the second day of the Unite Conference in Rotterdam looked to build bridges from schools to politicians to policies.
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Equity and inclusion 3 April 2017 Education unionists’ unwavering commitment to fight child labour globally
Education International has reiterated its support for sustainable initiatives to eradicate child labour worldwide, and welcomed the ratification by the Indian government of two international conventions making child labour illegal.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Ending child labour - a resource manual for teachers and education unions
19 June 2014Ending child labour - a resource manual for teachers and education unionsChild labour remains a human rights scourge more than a decade into the 21st century, affecting 168 million children worldwide by the best estimates. It denies millions of children their basic rights to education and childhood, permanently scarring their lives and their future as productive adults and citizens, those of...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Teacher unions at the forefront of the fight against child labour: Good practice
18 December 2013Teacher unions at the forefront of the fight against child labour: Good practiceEducation International developed this brochure to inspire its affiliated teacher unions to commit to the struggle against child labour.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Child labour and Education for all
A resource guide for trade unions and a call against child labour and for education for all
16 October 2013Child labour and Education for allThe effective elimination of all forms of child labour is a key objective of the international trade union movement. Universal access to free, quality, compulsory, basic education is the foundation stone to achieve this goal. ILO Convention 138 makes clear the linkages between the elimination of child labour and access...
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Equity and inclusion 4 June 2010 World Day Against Child Labour: Join the fight
A new EI publication called Go for the Goal: End Child Labour is being launched on 12 June to mark the World Day Against Child Labour.
World Day Against Child Labour: Join the fight