Articles from Iran
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Trade union rights are human rights 6 December 2021 Iran: Global education union community rallies around arrested trade unionists and demand their release
As an organisation committed to trade union and human rights, Education International is demanding the release of Esmail Abdi and other arrested trade union leaders in Iran. There is a particular and urgent concern for Abdi’s health, severely affected after long imprisonment in dire conditions. During a meeting of Education...
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 November 2020 Iran: Halt the Execution of Iranian Academic Ahmadreza Djalali
Education International has again expressed its deepest concerns about the death sentence against Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish medical doctor, lecturer and researcher in emergency medicine. According to Amnesty International, he has been transferred to solitary confinement in Evin prison and told by the authorities that his execution is imminent.
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Trade union rights are human rights 22 April 2020 Iran: Leading teacher unionist arrested again
Education International and UK’s NASUWT, the Teachers’ Union have condemned the re-arrest of Tehran education union leader Esmail Abdi.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 March 2020 Iran: Iranian teacher unionist Esmail Abdi released from jail
Education International welcomes the release of jailed Iranian teacher unionist Esmail Abdi on 17 March.
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Trade union rights are human rights 10 January 2020 Iran: unions demand transparent investigation into plane crash
Education unions call for a clarification of the circumstances that led to the crash of Ukraine International Flight 752 outside Tehran, which claimed 176 victims, including professors and students.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 February 2019 Iran: Free teacher unionist detained in Kurdistan province!
Education International has sent a protest letter to the government of Iran deploring the arbitrary arrest and prolonged detention of Mokhtar Asadi, teacher and member of the Iranian Teacher Trade Association in the province of Kurdistan.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 December 2018 #UDHR70 – “From activism to exile: growing up as the son of a leading Iranian trade union activist”, by Sajjad Khaksari
Sajjad Khaksari
My name is Sajjad, I was born in October 1982 in Ahvaz in Southwest Iran.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 December 2018 Iran: Teachers imprisoned for participating in peaceful strike actions
Confronted with the worsening situation of Iranian educator activists, Education International continues its fight to see jailed education union leaders and members freed, and reiterates its call on its affiliates and concerned citizens around the globe to continue to exert pressure on the Iranian Government to demand the immediate release...
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 October 2018 Iran: Solidarity with trade union leaders arrested after teachers’ strike
Education International is deeply concerned by local reports indicating that Iranian public authorities responded to a nationwide strike of teachers and education support personnel in primary and secondary schools by expelling teachers from schools and arresting education union leaders.
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Trade union rights are human rights 29 August 2018 Free teacher unionist Mohammed Habibi!
Education International (EI) launches a LabourStart campaign to request the immediate and unconditional release of Mohammed Habibi and the respect of trade union rights in Iran.
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Trade union rights are human rights 29 August 2018 Free teacher unionist Mohammed Habibi!
Education International (EI) launches a LabourStart campaign to request the immediate and unconditional release of Mohammed Habibi and the respect of trade union rights in Iran.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 August 2018 Iran: teacher trade unionist Mohammed Habibi sentenced to ten and a half years in prison
Education International strongly condemns the prison sentence imposed on Mohammad Habibi, an Iranian teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Iranian Teachers'Trade Association of Tehran.The sentence is for ten and a half years of confinement.
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Trade union rights are human rights 24 May 2018 Iran: Campaign to free jailed teacher unionists gathers pace
Education International has called for the release of Iranian teacher unionists Mohammad Habibi and Esmail Abdi, while global human rights organisation Amnesty International has also called for Abdi’s release as a prisoner of conscience.
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Trade union rights are human rights 18 April 2018 Iran: Teacher unionist Mohamed Habibi released
While welcoming the 15 April release on bail of Iranian educator unionist Mohammad Habibi after 44 days of detention, Education International urges the Iranian authorities to set jailed trade unionists free.
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 April 2018 UK: education unionists in solidarity with Iranian and Argentinian colleagues
Teacher unionists Esmail Abdi and Roberto Baradel have been recognised by the UK’s National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers for their fight for the rights of teachers and quality education in Iran and Argentina respectively.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 March 2018 Iranian teacher unionist arrested
The recent arrest of a teacher and board member of the Tehran branch of the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association (ITTA) at his school starkly illustrates the continuing persecution of teacher unionists in Iran.
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Trade union rights are human rights 22 January 2018 Iranian teacher unionist Esmail Abdi sent back to prison
Denied the extension of his furlough despite his poor health resulting from harsh detention conditions, Tehran teacher union leader Esmail Abdi was taken back to the Evin prison on 20 January.
Iranian teacher unionist Esmail Abdi sent back to prison