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| Her Royal Highness Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg |
Her Royal Highness Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg has been a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1997 with a special interest in micro-credit grants and the education of girls and women the world over.
She has relentlessly fostered efforts contributing to their empowerment and helping them to defend their rights. In this way, Her Royal Highness lends her support to projects such as micro-credit grants for the improvement of the living conditions of girls, women and their families.
She has visited numerous UNESCO project sites in Nepal, Mali, Bangladesh, Thailand and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Being herself a mother of five, she is particularly concerned about children’s rights and development.
She is also actively involved in helping street children and in speaking out against juvenile prostitution.
Her Royal Highness Grand Duchess Maria Teresa contributed to the UNESCO project, Breaking the Poverty Cycle of Women: Empowering Adolescents Girls to Become Agents of Social Transformation, which benefits adolescent girls in Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan and offers a broad-based capacity-building programme composed of literacy, life skills, science education as well as vocational training with access to ICTs.
As Honorary President, she gave a speech at the event to commemorate the struggle of the African continent against HIV/AIDS, which took place at UNESCO Headquarters in November 2004.
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HRH the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg continues her support for the empowerment of girls and women
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, has strongly supported the cross-cutting theme project entitled “Breaking the poverty cycle of women: Empowering adolescent girls to become agents of social transformation” in South Asia, since it was launched in 2002. With the dona tion provided by the “Fondation du Grand-Duc Henri et de la Grande-Duchesse Maria Teresa”, activities under the fi nal phase of the project were reinforced and consolidated in 2006. More |
Sixth Annual Meeting of UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassadors
 From 15 to 16 March 2006, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris was the venue for an impressive gathering of the Organization’s Goodwill Ambassadors. The 2006 Annual Meeting of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, convened by the Director-General, brought together a large number of these outstanding personalities, who come from the worlds of art, film, music, literature, charity and public affairs. More |
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Mr Cheick Modibo Diarra, H.R.H. Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General, and Mr Patrick Baudry during the Annual Meeting of Goodwill Ambassadors in February 2002 at UNESCO Headquarters |
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H.R.H. Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, Mr Patrick Baudry and Mr Cheick Modibo Diarra, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, during the Annual Meeting of Goodwill Ambassadors in February 2002 at UNESCO Headquarters |
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