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Changing times Changing attitudes - Alternative portrayals of men and women UNESCO
Fourteen of the best radio programmes produced in the UNESCO-DANIDA project, which have now been distributed to trainers and practitioners working in radio programme production and non-formal education throughout Africa. 01-01-2000 12:00 am

Education for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective Professor Betty Reardon - UNESCO
This publication, based on a comprehensive, gender-sensitive approach to peace education, has been written during the first year of the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010).

Femmes dans les crises urbaines François Hainard et Christine Verschuur (éds) - UNESCO
Relations de genre et environnements précaires 01-01-2001 12:00 am

Women's Rights and Bioethics International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO
This book, based on the Round Table on Bioethics and Women held at UNESCO during the Fourth Session of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC), presents the experience of field workers and actors in areas as diverse as health, legal affairs, governance, education and psychology.

The Challenge of Achieving Gender Parity in Basic Education. A Statistical Review, 1990-1998. UNESCO
This Report attempts to produce a global picture of the present situation, provide an anlysis of the disparities which exist in primary and secondary education, and identify present trends in particular regionas and societieis.  

Gender and Post-literacy: A Non-formal Education Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention Namtip Aksornkool - UNESCO
Results of an awareness-raising workshop in Mbabane, Swaziland for education, health care and communication professionals from Malawi, Swaziland and Zimbabwe to assist in preparing post-literacy materials to teach safe sex.  

Gender Equality and Equity UNESCO
A summary review of UNESCO's accomplishments since the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995).  

African Stories UNESCO
Results of the UNESCO-DANIDA workshops for the preparation of post-literacy reading materials and radio programmes for girls and women in Africa.  

Guidelines on Gender-Neutral Language Annie Desprez-Bouanchaud, Janet Doolaege, Lydia Ruprecht and Breda Pavlic - UNESCO
Third edition of a booklet first published by UNESCO in 1987.  

Women, Science and Technology: Towards a New Development? UNESCO
Highlights from the debate on gender issues at the World Conference on Science for the Twenty-first Century, Budapest, 1999,  

Toolkit on Gender Indicators in Engineering, Science and Technology Sophia Huyer and Gunnar Westholm - UNESCO
Produced within UNESCO’s University–Industry-Science Partnership (UNISPAR) programme in UNESCO’s Science Sector, with a view to promoting gender-disaggregated data in S&T activities.  

UNESCO - Mainstreaming the Needs of Women UNESCO
Booklet on the challenge of gender equality and equity, and work thereon in UNESCO’s various programme sectors.  

Asia Pacific Gender Equity in Science and Technology (APGEST)
Linking modern and indigenous knowledge, UNESCO supports specific technologies and local practices that empower women to combat poverty.

Cities, the Environment and Gender Relations
UNESCO supports action-research projects that are accompanying local initiatives.

Curriculum theme: women and sustainable development
UNESCO has developed an online teacher education programme to explore ways in which women are working to promote sustainable development in their communities and how these ideas can be integrated into a teaching programme.

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
In collaboration with the "Forum for African Women Educationalists" (FAWE), ESD conducted a study on economic activities and technology needs of women farmers and producers in Machakos, Kenya.

Special Project on Scientific, Technical and Vocational Education of Girls in Africa
UNESCO is developing gender-sensitive teaching material to overcome the barriers to girls' access to and successful completion of scientific, technical and vocational education.

United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI)
UNESCO provides strategic guidelines for Member States on how to strengthen national policies and programmes to ensure women's and girls' right to education.

Women and Gender in Science
UNESCO seeks to create an enabling policy environment for gender equity in science and technology.

Women in the Media
UNESCO provides training and technical support for radio programme production to women running community radio stations; radio being a powerful tool for giving voice to women in developing countries and fostering participatory democracies.

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