·        Immediate, full payment of all salary arrears and certification of employed teachers and graduating students from teacher training colleges;

·        A minimum monthly salary of HTG50,000 (about €840) as laid out in UNNOH’s Convention Final Report, and social benefits for all teachers;

·        A law establishing the status of the teaching profession; and publication and implementation of the law on the National Education Fund;

·        Thirty four per cent of the national budget to be allocated to education (30 per cent for pre-school, primary, secondary and vocational, and at least four percent for public higher education which currently receives just 0.55 per cent);

·        Decent working conditions at all levels of education;

·        Participation of teachers’ unions in the administration of social welfare insurance, and the insurance card to be issued to all insured teachers;

·        Establishment of a quality public education system which guarantees free access to education;

·        A proper immunisation campaign in schools and colleges against cholera, which is still taking lives daily, and all necessary measures to be taken by the UN and the government to eradicate it;

·        Establishing cafeterias in all schools and colleges to guarantee a hot meal for all pupils, students, teachers and other staff;

·        Short, medium and long term concrete measures to be taken to protect the environment and promote environmental education