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Learn Digital Skills
IFWEA offers a range of online courses that focus on learning and improving digital skills, ranging from how to conduct a webinar to using Google sheets for budgets. Find out which course suits you here.
UNESCO, ILO and IFWEA
A research project on the collaboration between UNESCO, ILO and IFWEA in the field of workers’ education, will form part of a publication celebrating the 80th anniversary of UNESCO. Read more.
Artivism as empowerment
Renalou Cabuyadao explains what Pinta Kultura does in Amman, Jordan. The art collective offers a place for engagement and connection for migrant domestic workers (MDWs). Read more.
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OLA
The IFWEA Online Labour Academy (OLA) is an online education platform used by IFWEA affiliates to design and deliver online workplace, social and political education to their constituencies. The platform is highly flexible, allowing for a wide range of activities and resources to be used in courses. These can be moderated or self-managed.
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Today our Asia region study circle coordinators met to talk about the value of study circles, study circle programmes, and thinking critically about the need to fund such programmes. We shared ideas, talked about challenges, and made plans to create a new course for worker educators. ![]()
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Yesterday , our Africa region study circle coordinators met to talk about the value of study circles, study circle programs, and thinking critically about the need to fund such programs. We shared ideas, talked about challenges, and made plans to create a new course for worker educators. A great session full of learning and connection!![]()
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The YGAP coordinators met virtually to finalize plans for the 2025 YGAP Programme. ![]()
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📅 Dates: 14 – 27 September 2025![]()
📍 Location: Community House, Cape Town, South Africa![]()
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👉 If your organization would like to send a delegate to this exciting programme, please reach out to us before 30 June 2025.
From our affiliate ITF - International Transport Workers' Federationation:![]()
🚨 The ITF and our global family of 700+ transport unions stand in solidarity with David Huerta all others standing in solidarity with immigrant workers.![]()
Oppression will never silence solidarity.
Former IFWEA Secretary General Sahra Ryklief has contributed her thoughts on transnational labour solidarity and equal partnerships to a recently-released publication featuring a range of voices. "None of Us is Free Until All of Us are Free: New Perspectives on Global Solidarity" is published by Africa World Press and provides “a rich resource for those engaged in the hard work of creating and sustaining solidarity networks of activists, organisations, and![]()
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It brings together essays from 2020 to 2024 on the theme of global solidarity in the early 21st century. Edited by William Minter in collaboration with Imani Countess, it features a foreword by Graça Machel. ![]()
👉🏽To find out more and order a copy, click here: bit.ly/4kYj7Hy