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Standards and working conditions 25 June 2021 Convention 190 can change lives | Joint statement of the Global Union Federations and the International Trade Union Confederation
The adoption of International Labour Organization (ILO)Convention 190 andRecommendation 206 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work is a victory for the trade union and labour movement. The adoption of these instruments is the culmination of years of campaigning and lobbying by trade unions, and in particular women...
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Standards and working conditions Training of Trainers Toolkit on the ILO Violence And Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206)
25 June 2021The historical adoption of the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention 190 (C190) and Recommendation 206 (R206) in 2019 by the International Labour Conference has created a new momentum in the fight against violence and harassment – including gender-based violence and harassment - in the world of work.
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Standards and working conditions 25 June 2021 Global trade union movement launches toolkit in campaign to eradicate violence and harassment in the world of work
As the International Labour Organization Convention 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work comes into force on 25 June 2021, global unions launchtoolkit to support the Convention and its Recommendation 206 . The manual provides thousands of unions around the world with critical tools in the fight...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 June 2021 G7 leaders commit to support girls’ education but fall short on financing the promise
During last weekend’s meeting, G7 leaders announced their support for theGirls’ Education Declaration and committed to addressing the setbacks brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, financial commitments announced for the Global Partnership for Education are below the amount needed to ensure the most vulnerable have access to education.
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Equity and inclusion 31 May 2021 Education International strongly condemns Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention
Education International Executive Board Statement
The 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic Violence is a landmark instrument that recognises the structural nature of gender-based violence and provides a clear roadmap for States to prevent, prosecute and eliminate gender-based violence and domestic violence.
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Equity and inclusion 25 May 2021 Education unions have an important role to play in addressing the gendered impacts of the pandemic in the profession
Education International member organisations reflected on how unions can respond to the gendered impacts of the public health crisis within the teaching profession.
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Equity and inclusion 10 May 2021 Afghanistan: Attack on girls' school "unjustifiable and morally repugnant"
Schools are centers of learning, inspiration and growth and must never be targets of terrorism and violence. We must defend girls' right to education.
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Union growth 30 March 2021 "Today, solidarity with women is a fight for democracy”, by Sławomir Broniarz.
Slawomir Broniarz
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...
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Equity and inclusion 19 March 2021 Women power unions: Advancing women’s leadership at the 65th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
The 65th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is taking place online between the 15th and the 26th of March. Delegates from Education International and other global unions are taking part in the Session to advance women’s full and effective participation in public life.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 March 2021 International Women’s Day 2021 | Statement of Global Union Federations for the Arab region
Calling on all Trade Unions to ‘Step it up for a World of work free from violence and harassment’.
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Union renewal and development 8 March 2021 International Women’s Day 2021
International Women’s Day 2021
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Equity and inclusion 7 March 2021 “Take the Long View: Scaling the Staircase of Women’s Equality”, by Dianne Woloschuk.
Dianne Woloschuk
What a difference a year makes! If someone had told me on March 8th, 2020, that news cycles and my personal life would focus for a year on wearing masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing, and vaccines, I would have been hard pressed to believe it. Without question, the Covid-19 pandemic...
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Equity and inclusion 4 March 2021 New Zealand: Trade union promotes women's leadership in the education sector
Women’s leadership in the education sector was the focus of the Women in Leadership Summit organised in New Zealand by the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA).
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 February 2021 Cape Verde: No to COVID-19 and gender-based violence in schools!
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.
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Equity and inclusion 6 January 2021 Argentina: Educator unions involved in successful push towards legalisation of abortion
Education International’s Argentinian affiliates, together with their trade union centres, were part of a women’s cross-sectoral/political/social network, which actively campaigned for the national Parliament to adopt a law legalising abortion.
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Equity and inclusion 10 December 2020 #16dayscampaign | “When teachers’ unions take action, schools become safer for everyone”, by madeleine kennedy-macfoy (EI) and Rex Fyles (Gender at Work).
Rex Fyles, madeleine kennedy macfoy
Gender-based violence in and around schools poses big challenges to education unions and their members. Because everyone in and around schools – teachers, students, education support personnel - can be both perpetrator and victim of such violence, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a violation of both the right to quality...
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Equity and inclusion 4 December 2020 #16dayscampaign | “Mobilising the community to prevent school dropout among girls following COVID-19 school closures”, by Joan Aja (UNATU, Uganda).
Joan Aja
Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) is implementing a girl child education project called Simameni Project supported by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation and funded by Global Affairs Canada. The five-year project is intended to increase girls’ access to secondary school education, and to ensure retention and completion. The project has a...
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Union growth 1 December 2020 #16dayscampaign | "Gender-Based Violence in Paraguay: The Other Pandemic", by Paola Giménez (OTEP AUTÉNTICA).
Paola Giménez
Within the framework of a profoundly sexist culture, the phenomenon of gender-based violence is linked to violence against women, children and adolescents, particularly those from the poorest sectors of society and those belonging to indigenous communities. Paraguay has one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in South America:...
#16dayscampaign | "Gender-Based Violence in Paraguay: The Other Pandemic", by Paola Giménez (OTEP AUTÉNTICA).