Articles
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23 April 2025 
Education International brings hope and effective strategies to curb child labour
NewsThanks to an Education International project on child labour, working with union members and their local communities, 1,880 children were brought back to school last year in six participating countries: Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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10 December 2024 
Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour
NewsEducation unionists from Burundi, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe came together in Malawi to learn about successful local efforts to end child labour. From 1 to 6 December 2024, coordinators and project leaders spearheading the unions’ work against child labour had the opportunity to exchange know-how and good practice...
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29 July 2024 
Investing in quality education and teachers: an African perspective on EI’s upcoming World Congress
Worlds of EducationThe teaching profession is traditionally known to be a noble profession and a driver for all sectors and industries we have in the world of work. The profession is highly valued but greatly ignored by many African governments: they want quality teaching but take a short-sighted approach and are unwilling...
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26 February 2024 
South Sudan: A young union strengthened and emboldened by South-South cooperation
News“We will use the experience provided by the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) as a starting point, making sure that we are now going to convince the government to cooperate with us.” That is how Garang Deng Kuol Athian, chairman of the National Teachers Union South Sudan (NTUSS), described the...
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7 July 2023 
Inclusive, quality education: the key to ending child labour
NewsFrom India to Senegal, from Albania to Uganda and Mali, Education International (EI) members raised their voices in support of quality education to commemorate World Day Against Child Labour on June 12th.
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19 June 2023 
Uganda: Education International condemns the horrific attack on Lhubiriha Secondary school
NewsEducation International, the global federation of educators, strongly condemns the horrific attack on Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe, Uganda and mourns in solidarity with the families and communities impacted by this devastating act of violence.
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Cooperation Projects
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2023 Promoting social dialogue to eradicate child labour and strengthen quality education provisions in Uganda
Development of a child labour free zone in Kyesiiga sub county (Masaka district).
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2023 - 2025 Implementation of a Web-Based Management Information System for UNATU, 2023-2025
UNATU is part of a group of African unions that wants to improve the membership information management. The project supports building the system MemberIS (MIS) that has been originally conceived for TUICO from Tanzania. Implementation there plus some pilots elsewhere have proved how much it simplifies management, contributes to membership...
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2022 - 2025 John Thompson Fellowship programme (Africa)
Train selected union representatives, including leadership in various aspects of unionism.
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Affiliates
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Uganda National Teachers Union
UNATU
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