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Revitalizing education, the key to Afghanistan's future
23-12-2002 10:30 am - (Press Release N° 2002-106)
According to education authorities in Afghanistan, some one and a half million school-age children cannot attend classes because there are not enough schools or teachers for them. This situation poses a direct threat to the country's fragile peace process and reconstruction, warned members of the Afghan High Commission on Education at the close of their week-long inaugural meeting at UNESCO's Paris Headquarters on Saturday (Dec. 21). More |
Energy boost for Africa
11-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Media Advisory No.2002-63)
Paris - In order to help share up-to-date information and know-how on renewable energies, UNESCO, in collaboration with the Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), is holding a conference/workshop in Yaoundé (Cameroon) from December 16-20, entitled Renewable Energies and Cogeneration for Sustainable Development in Africa. More |
Russian pianist Sergei Markarov to be named UNESCO Artist for Peace
09-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Press Release No.2002-101)
Paris - UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura will appoint the distinguished Russian pianist Sergei Markarov a UNESCO Artist for Peace on December 12 in recognition of his "support for UNESCO programmes and activities promoting peace and tolerance and for his contribution to dialogue between cultures through classical music." More
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High Commission on Education for Afghanistan meets at UNESCO
09-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Media Advisory No.2002-62)
Paris - The Afghan ministers of education and higher education, Mohammad Younus Qanooni and Mohammad Sharif Faiz, will attend the first meeting of the High Commission on Education for Afghanistan at UNESCO Headquarters from December 16 to 21. More |
African education ministers call for solidarity and action
05-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Press Release No.2002-99)
Dar-es-Salaam - The Eighth Conference of Ministers of Education of African Member States (MINEDAF VIII) has appealed to both the international community and African governments themselves to make education one of the pillars of development in Africa. More
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World Heritage has pride of place at un headquarters in New York
05-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Press Release No.2002-100)
Paris - The travelling photo exhibition of UNESCO's world heritage sites - Our Past, Our Future - organized jointly by UNESCO and the Chinese Permanent Delegation to the United Nations, was inaugurated on December 4 at UN Headquarters in New York, where it will be on show until January 31. More
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Street children: films, discussions and a photo exhibition at UNESCO
04-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Media Advisory No.2002-61)
Paris - Street children are the subject of a series of documentary films, discussions and a photo exhibition during a UNESCO event entitled Meeting the Street Children, organized at UNESCO Headquarters from December 11 to 13 by the Organization's Education of Children in Difficult Circumstances Programme, with the help of ESPPER (the Working Together for Projects and Programmes in Aid of Street Children Network of about 30 organizations around the world). More |
Education is part of the solution, UNESCO Director-general tells African education ministers
02-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Press Release No.2002-97)
Dar-es-Salaam - What must Africa do to achieve education for all of its peoples by 2015, the deadline set at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal (April, 2000)? This question will be at the heart of the Eighth Conference of African Education Ministers (MINEDAF VIII, December 2-6), which was inaugurated here today by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Benjamin William Mkapa. More
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African parliamentarians join forces to strengthen education
02-12-2002 11:00 pm - (Press Release No.2002-96)
Dar-es-Salaam - African parliamentarians from 45 countries have joined forces to strengthen education across the continent, in the quest to achieve education for all by 2015, the goal set at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal (April, 2000). More
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