Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
19 February 2026
EI Welcomes the Marrakech Global Framework for Action on Child Labour and Calls for Quality Education, Social Dialogue, and Peace
Education International (EI) joined governments, employers, other unionists and civil society representatives at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakech on 11-13 February 2026, where the newly adopted Marrakech Global Framework for Action
reaffirmed what educators worldwide know: universal access to free, compulsory, and quality...
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
19 February 2026
Africa ECE Network: Unions sharpen strategies to develop and strengthen early childhood education
Improving the professional status of early childhood education (ECE) personnel is central to improving both access and quality. Education unions across Africa are strengthening their collective advocacy to secure quality ECE, as well as recognition and decent conditions for workers in this sector.
France: trade union mobilisation for education support staff essential to inclusive education
The CFDT Public Education, Training and Research Federation and its member unions recognise that “inclusive education represents a major democratic advance, by affirming the right of every child to learn within the French education system, regardless of their specific needs”. But the implementation of this principle is currently facing numerous...
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
5 October 2019
#youngteachers “I owe my union activism to my students”, by Anthony Dowling (TUI, Ireland).
Anthony Dowling
If you are passing through Glasnevin Cemetery on the outskirts of Dublin City Centre, you may come across the noticeable yet simple gravestone of James Larkin. Engraved on it is ‘James Larkin 1876-1947, The Labour Leader’. Larkin’s Gravestone may be simple but the legacy he left behind is much more...