Articles from Pakistan
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Equity and inclusion 5 March 2019 #IWD2019 #Education Voices: “Educating Girls Matters: How You Can Help Change the World”, by Kayce Freed Jennings
Kayce Freed Jennings
This is true: educating girls will change the world. We know that. So why, then, are there still 130 million girls out of school and what can we do about it? What can you, as educators, do about it? What can your students do?
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Equity and inclusion 28 September 2017 Curriculum, Textbooks and Gender Stereotypes: The case of Pakistan
Haleema Masud
Education holds the power to form the understanding, attitudes and the behaviour of individuals. It is used as a tool for the promotion of national identities and can enhance the privilege of certain groups in the society (Smith, 1991), including men’s power over women. Gender roles and inequalities are reproduced,...
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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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Union growth 11 April 2017 Malala Yousafzai, appointed UN Messenger of Peace
Education International welcomes the appointment of Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai, as United Nations’ Messenger of Peace, a key international role where she will be able to continue to fulfil her commitment to the promotion of girls’ education.
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Union renewal and development 20 January 2016 Attack on Pakistan university leaves scores dead, injured
Security forces have ended a deadly siege at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, in north western Pakistan, after a group of militants stormed the school as morning classes were getting underway.
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Union renewal and development 17 February 2015 A World at School launches its plan to keep Pakistan’s schools safe
The announcement of a 15-point plan to boost safety in Pakistan’s schools by the UN Envoy for Global Education and Pakistan’s Prime Minister comes two months following the deadly attack in Peshawar.
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 December 2014 Make 2015 the year to pursue an education without fear
With many of you about to begin the holidays, reflect on the year that has been and prepare for the one ahead, Education International has one last request for 2014.
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Union renewal and development 17 December 2014 Teachers’ union president makes international appeal following Peshawar massacre
In an open letter to the global education community, the President of the Pakistan Teachers Organization’s Council, Khan Faraz, has called for support following the school attack that saw 132 children murdered by terrorists.
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Union renewal and development 16 December 2014 Statement: EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen on school attack in Pakistan
"We, at Education International, are in shock following today’s murderous school attack in Pakistan...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 September 2014 Pakistan: culmination events in full swing
Affiliates in Pakistan are promoting quality education throughout the country, and have joined the campaign’s culmination events by blending its slogans with Pakistan’s traditional culture and teachers’ daily lives.
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Union growth 27 September 2013 Amnesty International honours young activist for girls and women’s right to education
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban last year for campaigning for girls' education, has been honoured by Amnesty International in Dublin, Ireland. The 16-year-old has shared the Ambassador of Conscience Award with US singer Harry Belafonte for his work on human rights and social justice. Recipients are...
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Union renewal and development 12 July 2013 Challenges to quality educationChallenges to quality education
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 July 2013 Someone is killing our teachersSomeone is killing our teachers
David Browne
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Union growth 3 April 2013 Pakistan: We stand with the children and teachers!
The United Nations Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, Education International and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) are demanding of the authorities in Pakistan that they enable girls to go to schools which are safe and secure.
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Union growth 30 March 2013 Pakistan: Remembering murdered teachers
Education International will organize a memorial for the teachers who have been murdered in Pakistan recently. EI will also establish a girls’ scholarship fund to promote girls’ education and to support teachers and students victimised because of their support for girls schooling.
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Trade union rights are human rights 30 March 2013 Pakistan: Attacks on schools and teachers now occurring daily
A head teacher was murdered this morning in Pakistan - and three school children are fighting for their lives with another three badly injured - after the latest attack on a school and on the right of girls to education.
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Union growth 28 March 2013 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon condemns killing of woman teacher in Pakistan
In a statement issued today, the UN Secretary-General calls on the international community to prevent violations of the right to education, prompted by the heinous killing of Shahnaz Nazli, in Peschawar, Pakistan.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon condemns killing of woman teacher in Pakistan