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21-10-2005 -
Close of intense and productive General Conference at UNESCO - (Press Release No. 2005–130)
Paris, October 21 – The adoption of three standard-setting texts and the re-election of Koïchiro Matsuura as Director-General of UNESCO marked the 33rd session of UNESCO’s General Conference, which closed today. The texts adopted are: the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; the International Convention Against Doping in Sport; and the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. A day of reflection about human dignity, as well as two Ministerial Round Tables – one on Education for All (EFA), another on the basic sciences – and an exhibition about EFA, were also organized during the 33rd session.
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19-10-2005 -
UNESCO’s General Conference adopts Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights - (Press Release No. 2005–127)
UNESCO’s General Conference, gathered in Paris for its 33rd session, adopted on 19 October 2005 the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. The text, adopted by acclamation, “addresses ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences and associated technologies as applied to human beings, taking into account their social, legal and environmental dimensions.”
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12-10-2005 -
Koïchiro Matsuura appointed to a second term as Director-General of UNESCO - (Press Release No.2005-119)
Koïchiro Matsuura (Japan) was re-elected today as Director-General of UNESCO by the Organization’s General Conference. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term. This time he will serve for four years, following a reform instituted by the 29th session of the General Conference.
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