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The Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training is meeting in Madagascar to share the French-speaking perspective on union rights to the precarious position of teachers and the private financing of education.

As the final event in a series of outreach activities to young people across the OSCE region in 2016, Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship, in co-operation with the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe, held a two-day youth conference in Berlin on 10 and 11 November. Thirty participants between the ages of 16 and 25 years from OSCE participating States gathered in the Federal Foreign Office to debate different notions of security in the OSCE region from a youth perspective.

"We poured our hopes, our energy and our hearts into this campaign to elect someone we believed would bring the change we do desperately need," says Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, in a public statement issued on Thursday. "It breaks our hearts that the Hillary Clinton we know and love was not the person so many voters saw. But our deep belief in our democracy, in the power of people together, in the cause of opportunity and justice, will compel us to come together to move forward, no matter the odds."

UNESCO will showcase education for climate change awareness and resilience through side-events and two new publications.

Children conduct a science experiment in a classroom in Harar, Ethiopia.

A new Research for Results in Education program (R4R) in Lebanon will generate evidence on student and teacher performance across school types as the basis for policy recommendations to strengthen the efficiency and quality of education services by public, private and non-state providers.