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Union growth 13 June 2017 USA: teachers work to stop deportation of undocumented students
The American Federation of Teachers has issued its Immigrant Youth Guide in Spanish, a tool that helps teachers support and prepare undocumented students in the event of government immigration raids.
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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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Trade union rights are human rights 9 June 2017 Ecuador: Educators receive widespread support at ILO
With freedom of association in Ecuador severely hampered, education union UNE is taking its demands to a higher level at the International Labour Conference in Geneva.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 June 2017 EI defends education workers' rights at International Labour Conference
The labour rights of teachers and quality terms of employment for better education systems have been at the core of EI deputy general secretary Haldis Holst's address to the International Labour Conference.
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Union growth 7 June 2017 ILO: Educators highlight labour concerns in sector
Teachers and education professionals attending the 106th session of the International Labour Conference are going to defend their labour rights in the presence of Governments and employers’ organisations.
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Standards and working conditions 1 June 2017 Teacher union renewal: developing the power of the profession
Howard Stevenson
The challenges that face teachers often look very similar around the world. Global league tables are often behind the relentless pressure to drive test scores up, whilst the forces of global economic competition explain a race to the bottom on teachers’ working conditions. Teachers experience ever rising workloads, but perhaps...
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Union growth 31 May 2017 Re-thinking Disability
Tania Principe
Over the last 50 years, attitudes toward disability have changed. Whether viewing disability as a medical condition, through the prism of human rights or forms of exclusion, the understanding of disability has dramatically evolved. One could argue that we now know more than ever about disability.
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Trade union rights are human rights 29 May 2017 Romania: 65th country to endorse Safe Schools Declaration
Education International welcomes the move by Romania to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, a commitment to protect students, teachers, schools, and universities during times of war.
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 May 2017 Colombia: Solidarity in the wake of attacks against teachers union
Just days after an attack on the head office of Colombian teachers union FECODE, the international community has already been quick to express its solidarity and support of Colombian teachers and the peace process.
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 May 2017 Italy: increasing numbers of refugee children choose a perilous journey in search of a better future
A new Education International study reveals the immense challenge facing Italian authorities and education personnel to help the thousands of unaccompanied minors safely integrate into society after reaching European shores.
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 May 2017 IRAN: Teacher Union Leader Esmail Abdi on Hunger Strike
Education International (EI) reiterates its global solidarity call to request the immediate and unconditional release of Esmail Abdi, a leader of the Tehran Teacher Trade Association, who was sentenced to six years in jail on false charges by Branch 36 of the Appeals Court of Tehran last October.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 May 2017 Denmark: Union campaign against continuing cuts in education
The Gymnasieskolernes Laererforening strongly condemns and is mobilising against the financial cuts imposed on the public education sector.
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 May 2017 Iran: urgent action needed to help free education unionist
Education International reiterates its call for global solidarity and urges Iranian public authorities to immediately release imprisoned education union leader Esmail Abdi, whose hunger strike is taking a toll on his health.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 May 2017 UK: MPs call halt to high-stakes primary testing
Teacher unionists have welcomed a new report by the UK Commons Education Select Committee on Primary Assessment, highlighting the need to reform high-stakes tests in primary school.
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Trade union rights are human rights 11 May 2017 Denmark: 64th country to endorse Safe Schools Declaration
Education International welcomes the move by Denmark to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, a commitment to protect students, teachers, schools, and universities during times of war.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 May 2017 Arab countries’ teacher union leaders commit to defend human rights and quality public education
The newly elected leadership of the Committee of Education International's Arab Countries Cross-Regional Structure has vowed to protect human and trade union rights and promote quality public education for all in the region.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 May 2017 African education union leaders reaffirm commitment to improve unity
The Regional Dialogue Forum on Human Resources Issues in the Education Sector provided African teacher union leaders and education stakeholders with the opportunity to stress the importance of teacher trade union unity and social dialogue on education.
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Union growth 8 May 2017 Nigeria: Relief about release of 82 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
Education International has warmly welcomed the release of 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 abducted three years ago by Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria.
Nigeria: Relief about release of 82 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram