{"id":14893,"date":"2020-01-12T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14893"},"modified":"2020-01-12T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:18:02","slug":"rights-commission-to-investigate-teachers-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/rights-commission-to-investigate-teachers-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights Commission to investigate teachers\u2019 concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The National Independent Commission for Human Rights-CNIDH has set up a commission of five people including three commissioners and two officials of the commission to investigate the complaints raised by some teachers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14886\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14886\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sixte-Vigny-Cndih.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sixte-Vigny-Cndih.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sixte-Vigny-Cndih-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sixte-Vigny-Cndih-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sixte-Vigny-Cndih-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixte Vigny Nimuraba: \u201cWe will conduct an investigation to know what is going on with these teachers\u2019 concerns\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, Chairman of the Commission has said that some teachers have expressed their concerns about a probable forced-adherence to Special Coalition of Teachers\u2019 Union for National Solidarity-COSSESSONA. \u201cWe cannot confirm or deny their concerns as we didn\u2019t conduct any investigation,\u201d he said adding that freedom of association is a right but not a duty. He also added that the team will investigate the case of arrest of two teachers who are leaders of unions from Rutana province.<\/p>\n<p>CNIDH Chairman has also said that the national and international laws allow employees and employers to establish unions and associations. Meanwhile, G\u00e9rard Niyongabo, Chairman of the Union of Professional Teachers in Burundi (SEPEDUC] and Antoine Manuma, <a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/chairman-of-teachers-union-arrested-in-southern-burundi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chairman of the General Union of Teaching Staff in Burundi (SYGEPEBU) were arrested<\/a> by National Intelligence Services in Rutana province this 9 January.\u00a0\u00a0Those union activists are accused of opposing the forced deduction of BIF 500 from the teachers\u2019 salaries imposed by COSSESONA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Independent Commission for Human Rights-CNIDH has set up a commission of five people including three commissioners and two officials of the commission to investigate the complaints raised by some teachers. Sixte Vigny Nimuraba, Chairman of the Commission has said that some teachers have expressed their concerns about a probable forced-adherence to Special Coalition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,670],"tags":[1212,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14894,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions\/14894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}