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Global dispatches

51¸£Àû has a strong tradition of taking up issues at international and European level where they affect members' professional lives, and also working with partner organisations on solidarity and international development issues identified by the membership through 51¸£Àû's democratic structures.

  • 4 March 2016

    Jailed Colombian academic, Dr Miguel Beltrán, has recorded a moving video thanking 51¸£Àû for our continued support. Dr Beltrán has faced continued persecution for…

  • 12 February 2016

    51¸£Àû and Cambridge 51¸£Àû have written to the Egyptian embassy in London about the recent murder in Cairo of Giulio Regeni. Giulio Regeni was a doctoral researcher…

  • 29 January 2016

    Omar Ali Ewado, deputy general secretary of the Union of Primary School Teachers, has been sentenced to three months in prison following relentless government harassment.…

  • 18 January 2016

    51¸£Àû has written to the Turkish government about threats to academic freedom and the safety and well-being of students in the Kurdish region. The letter says that…

  • 19 November 2015

    A 5,000-strong petition calling for the swift resolution of jailed Colombian academic Dr Miguel Beltrán's appeal process has been submitted to the Colombian Embassy…