Education International and its members bring over 5,700 children out of child labour and into school
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French-speaking unions call for investment in public education and stronger social dialogue
Education International stands in solidarity with Greenland’s teachers while defending Indigenous rights and education
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News 23 June 2026 Democracy in the Classroom: New book supports teachers to build democratic learning environments
Education International and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) have joined forces for the launch of Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning , an open-access volume that provides teachers with tools and examples of how to create democratic learning...
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News 23 June 2026 President of the Nigeria Labour Congress receives top international trade union award
The 2026 Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights has been awarded to Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and long-serving General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE).
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News 22 June 2026 Go Public: Unions work together to defend and invest in public education throughout the Pacific
Confronted with severe teacher shortages, Education International (EI) member organisations have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen collective action to defend educators’ wellbeing and fair working conditions, and to advocate for the sustainable public investment needed to secure quality education for every child across the Pacific. They also underscored what education...
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News 17 June 2026 Education International stands in solidarity with Greenland’s teachers while defending Indigenous rights and education
Educators in Greenland and their union colleagues from around the world mobilized to defend Indigenous rights and democratic self-determination.
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News 15 June 2026 Scotland: Education union leaders stress the power and vital importance of global solidarity
The transformative power and critical role of global union solidarity featured prominently at the 180th Annual General Meeting of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) which took place on 4 to 6 June in Dundee.
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Worlds of Education 11 June 2026 Education voices | Changing hearts and minds to end child labour and keep girls in school
Ndakaziva Masinire
To mark World Day against Child Labour, we are featuring the story of Ms Ndakaziva Masinire, Deputy Head of Goromokwa Primary School in Zimbabwe. She works to end child labour in her community and ensure girls are not deprived of their fundamental right to education, as part of a project...
Education voices | Changing hearts and minds to end child labour and keep girls in school