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Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD, welcomes Dublin Declaration on the unique contribution of youth work in supporting attainment of 'soft' skiills which are increasingly south after by employers. The Declaration was agreed following a two day EU Presidency expert roundtable host by Minister Fitzgerald in Dublin.

Nineteen early childhood development (ECD) experts from 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean were hosted by the Dominican Government on June 12th and 13th for a two-day high level Conference in Santo Domingo to discuss the benefits of investing in quality ECD and to provide input based on the most successful regional practices.

UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Peter Krämer Foundation kicked off a new fundraising drive to raise US$80 million to help Africa’s girls, orphans, children living in extreme poverty and other vulnerable children go to school and get a quality education.

Teachers demonstrating in Lisbon

EI Vice-President Dennis van Roekel addressing the high-level discussion organised by UNESCO and the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN.

Inter-communal violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in June and October 2012 displaced an estimated 140,000 people. Many fled to temporary camps where they have been living without adequate shelter or sanitation facilities. Continued tensions between communities means that these families are still reluctant to return home.

EI Deputy General Secretary Haldis Holst, in a speech to the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on 13 June, urged the ILO to guarantee decent work and social dialogue for teachers worldwide. She highlighted that this would contribute achieving quality education for all.

A student teacher on a pre-service placement with Roma children in Bitola in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 27 January 2010.