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Today, 9th August, is the ITF/ITUC International Action Day in solidarity with union leaders Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi.

Education International has written to the Albanian government to protest against the expulsion of nationally recognised trade union confederations the KSSH and the BSPSH from their offices in Tirana.

EI supports the global call to stop the execution of a Sri-Lankan teenage girl who has been sentenced to death by beheading in Saudi Arabia.

Education International has written to the President of the Philippines following an urgent resolution adopted at the 5th World Congress calling on the government to immediately put a stop to extrajudicial killings and involuntary disappearances.

EI joins the Australian Education Union in voicing its concern about the suspension of Afghan MP, Malalai Joya from the parliament on 21 May.

Today, at the EI Communicators' Network, a new 14-minute DVD on EI's EFAIDS Programme was revealed for the first time.

EI has carefully collected footage to produce a short film which illustrates the story behind the EFAIDS Programme and why it is considered so important by the teacher unions implementing it.

“La dignidad y la libertad de pensamiento transcienden, como un ave fénix, los barrotes y celdas de la represión y tiranía estatal”.

On July 12th, public servants will take to the streets of Lisbon to protest against recent measures taken by the Portuguese government with a view to undermining labour rights.

EI strongly condemned the abduction on 10 July of Mansour Osanloo of the Tehran Workers’ Bus Union, Sherkate Vahed.