Articles
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10 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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2 September 2025
United States: Workers mark Labour Day by taking to the streets to protest Trump policies and the billionaire takeover in government
NewsThousands of people across the United States joined the Workers over Billionaires rallies on September 1st to voice their opposition to the Trump Administration and its policies that hurt working-class people in order to benefit Trump’s billionaire friends.
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23 July 2025
United States: Union-powered National Academy for AI Instruction aims to put teachers in the driver’s seat on technology in the classroom
NewsFounded by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its affiliate the United Federation of Teachers in partnership with Microsoft, Open AI, and Anthropic, the National Academy for AI Instruction will provide access to free training and curriculum on artificial intelligence (AI) for all 1.8 million members of the AFT.
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4 July 2025
Global education union movement rallies in solidarity with educators in the United States as they resist relentless attacks from the Trump Administration
NewsOn the 4th of July, Independence Day in the United States, education unions around the world are standing up in support of the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Our colleagues are on the frontlines, mobilising and organising to defend public education, students, and school...
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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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Cooperation Projects
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2025 AFT/TUESWU Professional Development Program
The AFT and the TUESWU are working together on a trade union capacity building project to address the needs of the TUESWUs education workforace impacted by the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The content of the project addresses the well-being of the workforce that has been subject to trauma...
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2025 - 2026 Educators Determined to End SRGBV
The EDE-SRGBV initiative is an Education International Africa (EIA) programme supported by National Education Association (NEA-USA), implemented across several African countries (Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Uganda). It builds on EI's long term work on ending School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV), strengthening the capacity of edcation unions, teachers, and communities to...
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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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Affiliates
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National Education Association
NEA
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American Federation of Teachers
AFT
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