ETUCE launched a new webpage where you can find information on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. What is the TTIP?, What does it cover?, Will Education be covered? Find all the answers to these questions here.
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Oxfam’s new report, Disaster Divide , exposes how the world's super-rich are fuelling the climate emergency through their outsized emissions, while shielding themselves from the consequences and, increasingly, profiting from the destruction. Meanwhile, millions of people struggle to recover from floods, fires, and rising food prices.
New Oxfam report: The world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown and cashing in on the crisis
From Lebanon to Eswatini, from Singapore to Canada, educators and their unions marked 5 October with a shared call: invest in teachers, strengthen the profession, and protect the right to education.
Standing with Teachers: Education International and affiliates’ global call to defend and elevate the profession on World Teachers’ Day
What does it mean for teachers to take a professional stance on democracy? This question is becoming increasingly important in schools facing racism, discrimination, disinformation, and anti-democratic tendencies. In Germany, a broad alliance of education and civil society organisations is calling for stronger civic education and better support for teachers...
Teachers must not be neutral: taking a professional stance is part of the job
The 48th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded with a breakthrough on the critical agenda of exceptions and limitations to copyright for education and research. The Committee agreed to launch text-based negotiations on education, preservation, and persons with disabilities...
Education International welcomes major progress on international copyright reforms for education
Education International and six other Global Union Federations joined together in the Asia-Pacific Region to condemn the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), signed on Sunday, 15 November 2020. The trade pact was negotiated in secrecy over more than seven years and many provisions remain unknown. The GUFs cited the danger...
Asia-Pacific : Global Union Federations in Region Condemn RCEP Trade Agreement