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
Education International stands in solidarity with member organisations in Spain, and with all teachers, education support personnel and workers joining the general strike on 11 November. Their mobilisation brings together demands for fair wages, affordable housing, equity and strong public services, including fully funded quality public education.
Spain: Education unions join national strike to demand fair wages, affordable housing, strong public services, and quality education
Misogyny among young people is no longer an issue that can be considered solely in terms of poor behaviour of some teenage boys who are stuck in dark pockets of the online world. For teachers, it is pervasive, growing rapidly, and the consequences are already being felt in schools across...
Misogyny and an education system’s duty of care for students and for teachers
Sixty years ago, a Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers recognised that teachers’ pay, working conditions, professional autonomy and public standing were inseparable from the quality of education provided to children, and explicitly identified teacher shortages as a problem requiring action. Why, sixty years later, are we confronting...
Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens
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