Articles
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11 October 2025 
Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity
Marking the International Day of the Girl Child
NewsOn the International Day of the Girl Child and every day, educators around the world are fully committed to advancing girls’ rights through education.
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17 September 2025 
Education unions celebrate Democracy Day by mobilising and organising to defend it
NewsDemocracy is a core value of education unions around the world. On the International Day of Democracy, 15 September, education unions from Education International came together online to reaffirm their commitment to defending and advancing democracy, sharing insights into the challenges they are facing and strategising the way forward.
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30 June 2025 
In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises
ResearchThe research examines recent trends in the higher education sector and how they align with the current provisions of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997) and the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It also analyses higher education unions' experience with...
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10 December 2024 
Unions leading the way to decolonise education
ResearchThis research on the decolonisation of education aims to promote further reflection among Education International (EI) member organisations on the role of unions, teachers, and policy in the decolonisation of education.
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21 December 2021 
Expanding Vaccines Beyond Our Borders
Worlds of EducationIf there is one thing we never see again, let it be a crematorium waiting list. Let temporary morgue tents be just that—temporary. We have the capacity to make that happen—to prepare for the next global public health crisis, so we never see this level of chaos and destruction again,...
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16 December 2021 
Education unions in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Canada, the USA and South Africa call on governments to support vaccine equity
NewsEducation International member organisations in Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, the United States of America and South Africa are calling on governments to support the temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments at the World Trade Organization. If adopted, the waiver would enable an expansion...
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Cooperation Projects
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2024 Movimientos Pedagógico Latinoamericano, RED de Trabajadoras de la Educación para America Latina, Poblaciones Indígenas, Observatorio Latinoamericano de Políticas Educativas (OLPE)
Desde la IEAL, se desea lograr una estructura sindical docente cada vez más fortalecida, con mayor fuerza político-organizativa, para enfrentar lo que se viene describiendo como arremetida antisindical en los diversos países. Inclusive, para tener mayor fuerza sindical para enfrentar los diversos contextos nacionales y situaciones coyunturales. Asimismo, se desea...
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2023 - 2024 EI Africa SRGBV project 2023-2024
The project which covers the period 2023-2024 is designed to strengthen thecapacity of EI member organisations in10 French Speaking countries of Central and West Africato carry out effective work to address SRGBVin schools and unions to ensure safe teaching and learning environments for educators and learners. Activities will be conducted...
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2023 - 2026 Transforming The union through digital capacity and female educators’ leadership practice
To develop strong, democratic, and independent teachers’ trade unions able to effectively defend and promote their members’ interests and actively advocate for quality, publicly funded education for all.
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Affiliates
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American Federation of Teachers
AFT
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National Education Association
NEA
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