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| Archive - Press Releases (2002-2006) |
Latest Global Education Indicators released
22-04-2004 12:00 am - (Press Release No 2004 - 35)
Children everywhere are spending more time in school than ever before, but there remain substantial differences between countries and regions, according to UNESCO’s Global Education Digest 2004*. According to the Digest, a child in Finland, New Zealand or Norway can expect to receive over 17 years of education, almost twice as much as in Bangladesh or Myanmar and four times as much in Niger or Burkina Faso. More
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At what age are school children employed, married and taken to court?
20-04-2004 11:00 am - (Press Release No 2004 - 33)
 Children’s right to education is being seriously undermined in dozens of countries by contradictory laws that allow them to work, be married or held criminally responsible at an age when they are legally bound to be in school, concludes a report launched in Geneva (Switzerland) today by the Right to Education Project*, and UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education**. More
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169th session of UNESCO’s Executive Board opened today
19-04-2004 1:00 pm - (Press Release N° 2004-32)
 The 169th session of UNESCO’s Executive Board opened today with speeches from its Chairman, Ambassador Hans-Heinrich Wrede (Germany), and the Director-General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura. Both stressed the progress made by the Organization and their will to respond to the challenges posed in a difficult international context. More
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UNESCO commemorates the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda
07-04-2004 12:45 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 31)
The United Nations has designated April 7, 2004, International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. In joining in the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the genocide, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today called for the duty of remembrance to be observed by inviting the Permanent Delegates and staff of the Organization to hold a minute of silence, alongside the entire United Nations system. More
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UNESCO programme grants funding to 62 new media projects in developing countries
02-04-2004 6:00 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 30)
UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) granted more than US$1.5 million to 62 media projects in developing countries and countries in transition at its meeting at Headquarters, (March 29 – April 2). It also awarded the 2003 IPDC-UNESCO Prize for Rural Communication to Radio Toco, the first and only community-based radio station in Trinidad and Tobago. More |
Director-General expresses deep concern for safety of journalists in Iraq
22-03-2004 4:30 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 28 - Corrigendum - This text replaces Press Release No.2004-28 issued on March 22 regarding two incidents that led to the deaths of members of two television crews in Iraq on March 18.)
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today voiced deep concern about the safety of journalists in Iraq following two separate incidents on March 18 which led to the death of members of television crews from coalition-backed local broadcaster Diyala TV, and Dubai-based Al-Arabiya. More
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World Water Day, March 22
Water and Governance: some examples of good practice
19-03-2004 5:30 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 26)
With the publication of “Water and Governance : Some Examples of Best Practice”*, the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), chaired by Jens Erik Fenstad of Norway, intends to contribute to the spreading of new attitudes about water that will encourage well-being and help the environment. Five cases studies are presented from Ecuador, Japan, the Philippines, the Nile River Basin and South Africa. More
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Struga poetry evenings: Laureates of Golden Crown and Bridges of Struga proclaimed at UNESCO
19-03-2004 11:45 am - (Press Release No 2004 - 24)
Philippine poet Angelo V. Suárez, 19, is the first laureate of “Bridges of Struga”, a new international poetry prize created by the international festival Struga Poetry Evening in cooperation with UNESCO to reward young poets from all over the world. The proclamation, took place Thursday evening at Organization Headquarters, during a ceremony organized for World Poetry Day (21st March). More
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Scaling up action against HIV/AIDS: meeting of UN agencies and Southern African ministers in Zambia
27-02-2004 3:30 pm - (Press Release No.2004-17)
Paris, February 27 - The Committee of the Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) of UNAIDS, which brings together the heads of the nine* United Nations agencies participating in the joint HIV/AIDS programme, will hold its annual meeting in Africa for the first time, March 3 to 5. Some 20** ministers of health, education, and finance from the region, one of the parts of the world worst hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, will attend the meeting, in Livingstone (Zambia). It will be chaired by Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO which is currently chairing UNAIDS. More
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Goodwill Ambassadors to sponsor Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage
26-02-2004 3:00 pm - (Press Release N°2004-16)
Paris, February 26 – UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors – leading personalities who place their talent and international renown at the service of the Organization’s ideals – decided to sponsor some of the 47 Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity during their annual meeting in Paris today. More |
International Mother Language Day 2004
19-02-2004 4:00 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 12)
 “Mother tongue languages should be favoured in education systems from the earliest age,” said UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura in his message for International Mother Language Day 2004*. “It is widely acknowledged nowadays,” he added, “that teaching in both the mother tongue and the official national language helps children to obtain better results and stimulates their cognitive development and capacity to learn.” More
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Forty-six million children out-of-school in South and East Asia
09-02-2004 6:00 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 09)
More children are attending school than ever before in the countries of South and East Asia, but vast numbers of them drop out before the end of the primary cycle and the region still accounts for the world’s largest share of out-of-school children, according to a new report published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics*. More
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Spotlight on small island developing states
21-01-2004 3:00 pm - (Press Release N° 2004-05)
Paris, January 21 – Small island developing states (SIDS) are particularly vulnerable to natural hazards, as well as to the negative impacts of global change, whether these are environmental, cultural, social or economic. As part of an international strategy to address these issues, defined during the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and in which UNESCO is actively involved, a meeting of some 300 stakeholders from island states in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, South China Seas, and the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans is being held in Nassau (Bahamas) from January 26 –30, in preparation for a major ministerial meeting on small islands in Mauritius later this year. More
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Launch of International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition
05-01-2004 5:30 pm - (Press Release No 2004 - 01)
On January 10, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura will officially launch the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition in Cape Coast (Ghana), one of the slave trade’s most active centres and today a World Heritage site. The year, devoted to an unprecedented tragedy that was recognized as a “crime against humanity” at the Durban World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (2001), should help humanity accomplish its duty of remembrance and fight all forms of slavery and racism in the world. More
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UNESCO Director-General offers condolences and support to Iran following tragic earthquake
27-12-2003 6:00 pm - (Press Release N°2003-107)
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura has conveyed his condolences to the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran, following the terrible earthquake that struck the country yesterday morning. In a letter to President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, Mr Matsuura expressed his distress at the “cruel loss of so many lives” and offered his “sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathy to the families of the victims at this time of national mourning.” More
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E-9 Education Ministers reaffirm their commitment to Education For All
26-12-2003 3:00 pm - (Press Release No 2003 - 106)
Education ministers from the world’s nine high population countries - Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan –have reaffirmed their commitment to meet the basic learning needs of all their peoples and to work more closely together to achieve the six goals set at the World Education Forum held in Dakar (Senegal) in 2000. More
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UNESCO organizes meetings between Israeli and Palestinian journalists
19-12-2003 6:00 pm - (Press Release No 2003 - 105)
Sixteen senior media professionals from Israel and the Palestinian territories have agreed on the need to be more sensitive in their reporting about one another’s side, and welcomed the idea of giving editorial space to each other in their respective media. At the close of a two-day meeting at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, they further agreed to meet again, to remain in contact and to visit each other’s territories. More
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150 new Community Multimedia centres to be set up in Africa
08-12-2003 10:45 am - (Press Release No 2003 - 103)
 UNESCO and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will launch a multi-million dollar project to provide marginalized communities in Mali, Mozambique and Senegal with access to information and communication technologies, including the internet. More
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UNESCO advocates freedom of expression at World Summit on the information society
05-12-2003 5:30 pm - (Press Release No 2003 - 102)
UNESCO is advocating freedom of expression at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, Geneva, December 10-12). It will seek to ensure that this fundamental right, enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the first Article of UNESCO’s Constitution, is included in the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action to be adopted at the close of the summit on communication and information technologies (ICT). More
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Director-General condemns murder of Philippine journalist Nelson Nadura
05-12-2003 11:45 am - (Press Release No 2003 - 101)
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today condemned the murder of Nelson Nadura, a journalist of Radio DYME in Masbate City, in the central Philippines on Wednesday. Mr Matsuura, however, welcomed a pledge by Philippine President Gloria Macagapal Arroyo to ensure that the murder of journalists in the country does not continue to go unpunished. More
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Angkor: time for development
17-11-2003 5:30 pm - (Press Release No 2003 - 95)
Ten years after the start of the campaign to safeguard Angkor (Cambodia), most of serious problems affecting the site that is so emblematic of Khmer culture have been solved, thanks to the efforts of the international community, which has invested more than US$50 million, the commitment of the kingdom’s authorities and UNESCO-led coordination. More
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UNESCO awards Science Prizes on World Science Day
10-11-2003 2:00 pm - (Press release No. 2003-93)
 This year’s six UNESCO science prizes will be awarded in Budapest (Hungary) today, at the closing of the three-day World Science Forum. The event coincides with UNESCO’s celebration of World Science Day. The prizes will be awarded by Walter Erdelen, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, on behalf of Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura. On the same day, at a special ceremony in Caracas (Venezuela), the 2002 Kalinga Prize will be given posthumously to the late Marisela Salvatierra, who was prevented by poor health from receiving it when she was still alive. More
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