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Leaders of Education International (EI) member organisations across North Asia have committed to “organise, organise, organise; day and night” and pledged to “strengthen solidarity across North Asia and to lay the foundations for ongoing cooperation.”

Teachers and education support personnel (ESP) are on strike across the country since October 16th, 2025, urging the government of Mongolia to increase their basic salary to 3.5 million tugriks (around 840 euros) as well as the education budget for 2026.

The 23rd General Assembly of the Ethiopian Teachers’ Association (ETA) convened from October 14th-15th, 2025, bringing together educators and union leaders from across the nation and continent. The event was a call for solidarity, reform, and renewed commitment to quality, inclusive public education.

The National Teachers Association (NTA) is urging the government of Taiwan to listen to teachers and improve their working conditions and to align with the UN Recommendations on the teaching profession and achieve quality education.

Over 7 million people took to the streets of the United States on October 18 to protest the country’s authoritarian slide under Donald Trump. Organised by a civil society coalition that includes Education International member organisations the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), No Kings...

With the support of Education International (EI), national education union SNE/FDT organised a series of activities between May and June 2024 in order to provide solidarity, psychological, educational, and material support to students and school communities affected by the devastating earthquake of 8 September 2023. Three key events were held...

The situation in Madagascar is evolving rapidly amid political changes triggered by major protests in many of the country’s large cities, especially the capital, Antananarivo, which has been affected by water and electricity cuts. FEKRIMPAMA (Christian Federation of Teachers and Education Employees of Madagascar) had called for a general strike...

Ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30), which will take place in Brazil in November 2025, education unionists came together to discuss the priorities of the global education union movement for this event, as well as the way forward beyond COP30.

Academic freedom faces systematic assault worldwide. From arrests and imprisonment in authoritarian states to witch-hunts and curriculum censorship in democracies, the fundamental right to pursue knowledge freely is under threat across all contexts.

On 17 December 2024, a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, leaving a trail of destruction across the island of Efate. Entire communities were shaken to their core as most buildings, including a significant number of classrooms, collapsed or were severely damaged. For many schools, this disaster...

Demonstrations, calls for increased investment in quality, inclusive education systems and educators, poems, dances, and more. On October 5th, 2025, education unions celebrated World Teachers’ Day, around the globe.

On the International Day of the Girl Child and every day, educators around the world are fully committed to advancing girls’ rights through education.

The peaceful sit-ins by teachers and education support personnel in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar are drawing national attention and growing solidarity from other sectors, such as the railway sector workers who have joined the protest in solidarity. Backed by the public strong support, the Federation of Mongolian Education and...

Informed by the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession (UNHLP), the Santiago Consensus and new research focusing on the political economy of education in Lebanon, Education International (EI) member organizations in Lebanon are advocating in the framework of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign for an...

On World Mental Health Day, Education International launched two new initiatives dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of teachers and education support personnel around the world. The network and resource centre will allow education unions to share best practices in order to foster healthier, more supportive environments for education...

This year’s World Teachers’ Day marked a historic and deeply emotional moment as Education International’s General Secretary marked the occasion in Palestine — standing in solidarity with the General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT) and the educators who continue to hold their community together in the face of occupation, lack...

Cameroon’s teachers have entered the third phase of the strike action launched at the start of the school year under the slogan “Education at Half-Mast”. Education staff denounce the deteriorating working conditions and demand far-reaching reforms. They blame the persistent lack of political decisions on key issues for the sharp...

Leaders of Education International Africa (EIA) member organizations exchanged experiences and strategies during a Go Public! Fund Education event and then actively participated in the Pan African Conference on Teacher Education (PACTED 2025). During these high-level events held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, they reaffirmed their commitment to the EI Go...