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Equity and inclusion 30 November 2007 52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women: Sign up today!
EI is finalizing the registration of participants for the 52nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The session runs from February 25 until March 7, 2008 in New York. The EI delegation will focus its attention on meetings held during the first week.
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Equity and inclusion 25 November 2007 EI joins global action to stop Violence Against Women
EI and the other Global Unions are participating in a global initiative to stop violence against women, running from 25 November (UN Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women) until UN Human Rights Day on 10 December.
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Equity and inclusion 25 July 2007 Resolution on gender and pay equity
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Equity and inclusion 21 July 2007 UN Director: "Gender-based discrimination in education is more than the issues of access"
Speaking at the EI Women’s Caucus held today in Berlin, Special Guest Carolyn Hannan, Director of the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, emphasized that the education of women and girls is vital for the transformation of societies, and we must address the growing need to move beyond the...
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Equity and inclusion 26 March 2007 EI calls for Global Effort to Stop Violence against the Girl Child
This year marks the bicentennial of the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, yet slavery remains widespread, particularly among vulnerable girls. The shameful statistics must mobilise us to stop violence against the girl child.
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Equity and inclusion 9 March 2007 EI Europe launches its electronic Pan-European Women’s Network
On International Women’s Day, 8 March, Equality Officers from 138 EI member organisations in 44 European countries received an invitation to take part in EI's electronic Pan-European Women’s Network (PEWN).
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Equity and inclusion 8 March 2007 On International Women’s Day, EI Latin America launches the Gender Equity Project
On International Women’s Day and within the framework of the 6th EI Latin American Regional Conference, 32 education sector unions from 18 countries in the region are launching the “Equity with Gender Perspective” project.
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Equity and inclusion 5 March 2007 The Fight for Gender Equality Must Continue, says EI on the occasion of International Women's Day
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Education International reminds its member organisations that the fight for gender equality must continue, especially when there is still a huge gap in pay parity and working conditions between men and women in many parts of the world.
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Equity and inclusion 23 February 2007 EI-PSI-ITUC Joint Statement on the 51st Session of the UN Comission on the Status of Women, New York, March 2007
Over 50 million women from 160 countries belong to trade unions, making the union movement the single largest voice of working women. Unions have a global reach, members working in all types of jobs, from professionals to low-skilled workers and in the informal economy.
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Equity and inclusion 23 February 2007 International Women's Day - 8 March: Educators aim to eliminate discrimination and violence against women and girls
On International Women's Day, educators worldwide are demanding that governments act to halt violence that endangers women's lives, violates their rights, harms their families and poses an affront to humanity and international law.
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Equity and inclusion 25 November 2006 EI marks International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women
Teachers everywhere are concerned about the enormous problem of violence against women and girls, a violation of human rights that takes place on a vast scale worldwide.
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Equity and inclusion 1 November 2006 Women educators unite across Europe
All those who share the belief in education as an intrinsic human right also share the responsibility of promoting non-discrimination in our unions, our schools and our societies.
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Equity and inclusion 30 June 2006 FIFA sends formal response to EI's protest against trafficking of women and young girls during the World Cup
In response to EI's letter dated 19 June, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), sent a formal statement by their President Joseph Blatter condemning the trafficking of women and young girls into forced prostitution during the World Cup.
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Equity and inclusion 19 June 2006 EI protests against trafficking of women and young girls during the World Cup
In a letter addressed to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on 19 June, EI expressed its concern about the trafficking of women and girls into Germany who are being exploited in the sex industry for the World Cup season.
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Equity and inclusion 7 March 2006 Press Release 4/2006: International Women’s Day, 8 March - EI will focus on empowering women worldwide
Education International (EI) is marking International Women’s Day with a demand that governments do more to implement the 3rd UN Millennium Development Goal focusing on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
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Equity and inclusion 6 March 2006 EI Statement on the International Women's Day, 8 March 2006 - Public Quality Education to achieve Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
During the UN Millennium Summit in the year 2000, world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to achieving equal rights for women and girls by approving Goal 3 on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. It was not the first time that such a pledge had been made.
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Equity and inclusion 3 March 2006 Global Unions Oral Statement on Migration - 50th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women – 2 March, 2006
The international trade union organisations welcome the fact that migration has been placed on the Agenda of the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women as an emerging issue. The growing phenomenon of migration is of concern to global unions, represented here by Education International, Public Services...
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Equity and inclusion 2 March 2006 UK: Gender pay gap is worst in Europe
EI affiliates in the UK have expressed their opinions following the publication of the Women and Work Commission’s ‘Shaping a Fairer Future’ report which found women earn only 83% of the male hourly rate.
UK: Gender pay gap is worst in Europe