Todo el personal docente y de apoyo educativo tiene derecho a sindicarse y afiliarse a un sindicato que represente y defienda sus valores e intereses. Sin embargo, en todo el mundo, los sindicatos de la educación se enfrentan a graves ataques y trabajan en entornos cada vez más difíciles y hostiles. El camino a seguir pasa por revitalizar los sindicatos, ampliar su poder incrementando la afiliación y la participación activa y maximizar su impacto.
Durante los últimos meses, la sociedad civil chilena se ha organizado en masa para defender el derecho a una educación pública gratuita para todos y todas.
Chile se moviliza por la Educación Pública
Education International has issued a new appeal to Bahraini authorities to release Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi 'Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb, Vice-President and President of the Bahraini Teachers Association (BTA) arrested along with several other board members of the BTA. Education International (EI) issued a first Urgent Action Appeal in April...
Bahrain: EI calls for detained teachers to be released
EI and Amnesty International are calling for the release of Jalila al-Salman and Mahdi Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb, two members of the Bahrain Teachers' Association (BTA) who were arrested during the unrest in March and April 2011. They remain incarcerated awaiting trial in a civilian court, which has been postponed...
Bahrain: EI demands release of detained teachers
EI has condemned the decision of Bahrain’s Ministry of Social Development to dissolve the Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA) and to prosecute its leaders in a military court on spurious charges of ‘leaving work on purpose, encouraging others to do so, and taking part in illegal gatherings.’
Bahrain: Serious assault on teachers’ rights
EI welcomes a new resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council as a major step forward in preventing attacks and making schools safe for children and education personnel in armed conflict situations.
UN: Resolution on the right to education in armed conflict areas
En Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, una manifestación de docentes fue atacada por grupos de vándalos armados que según sospecha el Sindicato Nacional Centro (NTUC) pueden estar vinculados estrechamente con el gobierno.
Sri Lanka: Vándalos atacan a docentes sindicalistas
The independent teachers’ union in Egypt is fighting for the enactment of legislation to ensure trade union rights. EI’s member, the Independent Teachers Union of Egypt – which was founded July 2010 before the revolution – is part of the new Independent Trade Union Federation.
Egypt: Independent teachers’ union fights for rights
The Government of Botswana has amended its laws in order to make it illegal for teachers to go on strike. The move comes as the government decided to re-classify teachers as ‘essential services’ and therefore making it illegal for teachers to withdraw their labour.
Botswana: Government takes away teachers’ right to strike
Durante las protestas de ayer contra los recortes draconianos en el presupuesto, aprobados por el parlamento el miércoles, una serie de enfrentamientos se desataron entre los miembros de los sindicatos de docentes griegos y las fuerzas policiales. La manifestación que estuvo encabezada por la Federación Griega de Docentes de Educación...
Grecia: Los Docentes son víctimas de agresiones en medio del estallido de violencia
Dado que casi 1600 docentes sindicalistas están a punto de reunirse en Ciudad del Cabo para celebrar el 6º Congreso Mundial de la Internacional de la Educación, la IE, en nombre de sus 30 millones de docentes y trabajadores de la educación de todo el mundo, desea expresar su admiración...
Declaración de la IE para celebrar el vigésimo aniversario de la abolición del apartheid en Sudáfrica
As over 1600 teacher unionists are about to converge to Cape Town for the 6h World Congress of Education International, EI, on behalf of its 30 million teachers and education workers worldwide, expresses its admiration with all the South African colleagues for their struggle to abolish apartheid, overcome profound injustice...
EI statement to mark the twentieth anniversary of abolition of apartheid in South Africa