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  1. 30 July 2021

    Ghana: UTAG declares industrial action over stalled negotiations

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    As announced in a press conference statement released by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), on 28th July 2021, the union will go on an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday 2nd, August 2021. The strike is because the Government of Ghana has failed to cooperate with UTAG to finalize...

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  2. 30 July 2021

    EI Africa takes action to stop gender-based violence in schools

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    In order to expand the work of EI member unions on School Related Gender Based Violence, Education International (EI) Africa Region organised three online learning/planning workshops. The two days’ workshops, which were held online, were facilitated by a team of Gender@ Work resource persons for the English group (29th -...

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  3. 15 July 2021

    Chad: the SET supporting teachers during the COVID-19 crisis

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    Throughout the crisis, the Chad Teachers Union (SET, Syndicat des Enseignants du Tchad) has focused on listening to and supporting teachers. To this aim, the union carried out a large-scale survey to better understand the impact of the pandemic on teachers and to assess the effectiveness of distance learning.

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  4. 5 July 2021

    EI AFRICA MEMBER ORGANISATIONS COMMIT TO UNION RENEWAL

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    EI Africa held a webinar on union renewal on the 24th of June. It was attended by 104 participants and the presentations, discussions, and the experiences of EI member organisations from across Africa and globally proved that union renewal is an absolute must for the survival of education unions.

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  5. 20 June 2021

    World Refugee Day 2021

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    Education International (EI) Africa joins the rest of the World on this World Refugee Day (WRD) to highlight the plight of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

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  6. 18 June 2021

    EI Africa kickstarts capacity building for union leaders

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    Education International (EI) Africa kickstarted capacity building for its affiliates with a workshop for Southern Africa held virtually from 16th to 17th June 2021. The workshop gathered over 40 participants, mainly union representatives from Malawi (PSEUM and TUM), Zambia (ZNUT, SESTUZ and BETUZ), Namibia (NANTU), Eswatini (SNAT), Lesotho (LAT and...

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  7. 14 June 2021

    World Day Against Child Labour

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    Child labour is not only harmful to children, but a violation of their fundamental rights. It continues to keep millions of children out of school.

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  8. 3 June 2021

    Virtual Platforms Can Empower Unions

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    The second day of the EI Africa Regional Committee training on the use of virtual platforms was very revealing. Covid-19 drove unions into venturing on virtual platforms.

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