Plan International’s Leila Asrari, for The Global Working group to #EndSRGBV, draws attention to the pivotal role teachers can play when it comes to ending violence in schools.
The blogpost is available here
Ministers, teacher unions and education leaders meeting at the World Summit on Teachers in Chile have adopted the Santiago Consensus, a comprehensive framework that commits governments to address the global shortage of 50 million teachers through concrete policy action.
Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation
The education trade union movement supports Indigenous Peoples and works to promote their rights in education all around the world. To mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, celebrated every year on 9 August (the date of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous...
Education Voices: The trade union fight for Indigenous rights in Quebec
“Empowering women in education unions is not just a goal; it is a necessity. The data speaks clearly: we must invest in awareness, mentorship, leadership quotas, and zero-tolerance for discrimination.” That’s how Najat Ganay, Vice-President of the Education International (EI) Arab Countries Cross-Regional Structure (ACCRS) introduces the study: Participatory Research...
Arab education unions gear up to increase women's participation and leadership
Currently, women and LGBTI people in Poland face a very difficult situation. However, it would be wrong and short-sighted to see attacks on women or LGBTI people as the problem of a single country or of one radically conservative government that seeks to establish an authoritarian regime. Poland is not...
"Today, solidarity with women is a fight for democracy”, by Sławomir Broniarz.
The Federaçao Caboverdiana dos Professores (FECAP) in Cape Verde is campaigning to provide educators with sufficient tools to fight the COVID-19 outbreak and gender-based violence in education institutions.
Cape Verde: No to COVID-19 and gender-based violence in schools!
A blogpost posted on the GEM Report blog on 24 November 2017 and launched for the occasion of #16DaysofActivism, stresses that among the many factors contributing to school-related violence towards children and adolescents, the gender dimension is one of the most significant, and teachers’ central role as conduits for change,...
Teachers are central to any effective response to school-related gender-based violence