Articles from Lebanon
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 February 2023 Education in Lebanon – a crisis with no end in sight
Manal Hdaife
Year after year, Lebanese people cannot live in peace, security, and prosperity, as crises overwhelm them, destroying everything except the hope for a better tomorrow.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 April 2022 Lebanon: Education International mission in solidarity with teachers, students, and schools
During a mission to Lebanon, Education International expressed solidarity with educators and students who face extreme conditions which deny children their right to education and impact teachers and their unions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 March 2022 Teachers and students in Lebanon need global solidarity to save their education system and their hope for the future. The world must answer.
David Edwards
The failure of governance and the inability to deal with over-lapping crises has paralysed Lebanon. A whole generation of young people risks losing life opportunities due to the meltdown of the education system.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 June 2021 Lebanon: Teacher unions committed to delivering quality education amidst worst economic crisis in 30 years
Lebanon has been hit with two extraordinary crises in the past two years: the explosion of the Beirut port and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Lebanese educators and their unions have risen to the challenges presented by public health, economic, and refugee crises.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 April 2021 “Debt cancellation: a key step towards economic recovery and financing quality education in Lebanon”, by Manal Hdaife.
Manal Hdaife
“Lebanon is suffering from its worst economic crisis in 30 years. Across the country, tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs and millions more struggle to buy necessities – all amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic” [1].
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Union growth 11 August 2020 Lebanon: International solidarity as education sector reels from impact of explosion
After the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, Education International has expressed solidarity with the Lebanese capital’s inhabitants, including educators and students.
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Equity and inclusion 20 June 2020 "Overlapping crises: the impact of Covid-19 on refugee students in Lebanon", by Hussain Muhammad Jawad
Hussain Muhammad Jawad
Lebanon is a country with a population of 4.5 million and is home to a large number of refugees. Over two million Syrian refugees are now living in Lebanon, in addition to half a million of Palestinian refugees. More than 52% of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon are children, and...
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Trade union rights are human rights 1 April 2020 Lebanon: Union draws attention to the situation of refugees amid the COVID-19 pandemic
School closures in Lebanon have affected over 1.3 million students at all levels of education. The country is host to large numbers of refugees who are most at risk during the crisis. Educators are working with the government to implement the best available solutions and call for solidarity and support...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 October 2019 Lebanon: educators join nationwide protests calling for political and economic change
Education unions have expressed their support for the legitimate demands of hundreds of thousands of citizens calling for radical change in a political system accused of corruption, confessionalism and clientelism, and an end to the endless economic crisis plaguing Lebanon.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2019 “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.
Mugwena Maluleke
African nations actively participated in the development of the Sustainable Development Agenda that acknowledged the centrality of education in the achievement of all other plans for a better world. Like other nations of the world, they committed to the provision of a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious...
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Trade union rights are human rights 31 May 2018 Arab countries’ unions crucial to achieve international goals on education in their region
Arab teacher union leaders have reasserted the need for public authorities in their region to listen to teacher organisations carefully, especially concerning current burning issues in their schools, notably refugee students and educators.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 March 2018 Lebanon: Unions highlight importance of Quality Education for All via development cooperation
Norwegian colleagues have collaborated with Education International’s Lebanese affiliates to build capacity around union strength and Quality Education for All.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 December 2017 Arab education unions focus on union renewal and quality education
Teacher union leaders in Arab-speaking countries have discussed ways to better engage with young and new teachers and steps necessary to achieve access to quality education for all by 2030 in their region.
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Equity and inclusion 18 October 2017 Lebanon: Education International affiliates mobilise for the right to education of Syrian refugee children
According to the UNHCR, Lebanon is currently hosting approximately one million Syrian refugees, half of which are children. Over 252,000 Syrian refugee children are of school-age, but only 30% are actually enrolled in school.
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Standards and working conditions 26 July 2017 Lebanon: Government moves to increase teachers’ salaries
After intense advocacy efforts by education unions and civil society organisations, the Lebanese parliament has passed a law providing a salary increase - for the first time in five years - for public services employees, including teachers.
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Union growth 10 May 2017 Arab countries’ teacher union leaders commit to defend human rights and quality public education
The newly elected leadership of the Committee of Education International's Arab Countries Cross-Regional Structure has vowed to protect human and trade union rights and promote quality public education for all in the region.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 12 April 2017 The Syrian refugee crisis is promoting a surge in privatisation
The interplay between crisis and private profit in the education sector is highlighted in a new study that focuses on the refugee crisis in Syria and the access to education of almost one million displaced children.
The Syrian refugee crisis is promoting a surge in privatisation