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12-12-2007 (UNESCO) - The 2006 Fair Play Awards took place on December 7th, 2007 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. UNESCO Director General, Koïchiro Matsuura, the former President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and President of the International Committee for Fair Play, Jenő Kamuti all took part in the ceremony.
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06-12-2007 (UNESCO) - On 5 December 2007 an agreement was signed by the Government of Greece and UNESCO to establish an Observatory on Women, Sport, and Physical Education, following the adoption by UNESCO's 34th General Conference. The Observatory will be a web-based structure focusing on gender policy and sport management.
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01-12-2007 (UNESCO) - On 23 November 2007 Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, designated Mr Virgilijus Alekna, the Lithuanian discus thrower, as UNESCO Champion for Sport.
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01-11-2007 (UNESCO) - On 10 October 2007, UNESCO, the Government of Bashkortostan and the International Association of Traditional Wrestling Sports organized an International Round Table in Ufa, the Russian Federation, highlighting the importance of the role of traditional sports and games in local capacity-building and social and economic development.
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06-09-2007 (SHS e-News 18 / September 2007) - While France is hosting the Rugby World Cup 2007, the city of Saint-Denis, which will host some of the most challenging games in its Stade de France, is organizing a World Sports Forum, under the patronage of UNESCO. From anti-doping to the fight against racism and the position of women in sports, 8 debates will suggest a different sport in a different world…
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30-07-2007 (UNESCO) - On July 29th 2007 Iraq won the Asian Football Cup. Despite the situation in Iraq, the national football team’s victory brings hope and happiness, as population unites in celebrating, irrespective of religions or ethnic groups.
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22-06-2007 (UNESCO) - UNESCO is seeking to increase the level of teacher training in Francophone Africa. In May 2007 a meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal, consisting of high-level experts charged with the task of harmonising physical education teaching programmes, to bring about quality assurance in schools.
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22-06-2007 (UNESCO) - Traditional sports and games will be at the heart of the 450th anniversary of Bachkortostan’s unification with Russia, which will take place in Ufa from the 9th to the 11th of October 2007. UNESCO will help co-organize the World Wrestling Championships as well as an international conference on traditional wrestling and sustainable development.
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18-06-2007 (UNESCO) - After establishing the successful football and education institute in Saly, Senegal, UNESCO and Diambars are moving forward to expand the Diambars project to address the education problems in Africa. In June 2007 a press conference was held in Saly to review the Diambars UNESCO collaboration.
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01-06-2007 (UNESCO) - In line with policies to promote and preserve traditional sports and games, UNESCO participated in the European Traditional Wrestling Championships in May 2007. This involved over 20 European countries and included a tree planting ceremony to celebrate the environment.
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20-04-2007 (UNESCO) - The UNESCO Breakfast Run is organised every year in affiliation with the Paris Marathon and in cooperation with Paris City. On 14 April 2007, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO, along with 2000 other participants took part in the run.
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04-04-2007 (UNESCO) - UNESCO staff, interns, consultants, permanent delegations, families and friends are invited to participate in the annual UNESCO Friendship Run on Saturday, 14 April 2007 starting at 8:30am.
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29-03-2007 (UNESCO) - The Biathlon World Championships in Anterselva, Italy, were an occasion for UNESCO to reinforce its cooperation with the International Biathlon Union for joint efforts to promote the values of sport and physical education.
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23-03-2007 (UNESCO) - UNESCO promotes the rights of children to accessing facilities for practising physical education and sport, and is in the primary planning stages of organising an International Forum to raise awareness of this subject.
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20-03-2007 (UNESCO) - In February 2007, the 28th Traditional Wrestling Championships Took place in Agadez, Niger. UNESCO attended, working towards its promotion of traditional sports and games.
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13-12-2006 (UNESCO) - UNESCO and the IATWS held an International Seminar on Traditional Sports and Games in Abidjan in December 2006, with a variety of workshops and competitions for athletes, referees and coaches from 12 African countries.
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30-11-2006 (UNESCO) - In late 2006 UNESCO participated in the 10th annual Soccerex convention in Dubai. This was a chance for UNESCO to promote ideals of corporate social responsibility to the lead up to 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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04-11-2006 (UNESCO) - The 11th edition of the World Sport for All Congress took place in Cuba, from 31 October to 3 November 2006. Participants discussed the general decline in the practice of physical activities. They looked at sport in relation to health issues, and recognized that the decline in physical activity and sport directly affects national health costs and social well being.
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03-11-2006 (UNESCO) - From 24 to 26 of October 2006, more than 700 experts, academics, government officials and sport personalities from over 150 countries and regions gathered in Beijing for the 5th edition of the World Forum on Sport, Education and Culture.
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25-10-2006 (UNESCO) - In November 2006 a roundtable was held in Kazakhstan to discuss the importance of traditional sport and games. Participants from all over the world came together to examine the educational and cultural values, culminating with the agreement to establish a World Council on TSG.
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19-10-2006 (UNESCO) - Representatives from Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education will participate in the 5th World Forum on Sport, Education and Culture in Beijing (China) with support from UNESCO.
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16-10-2006 (UNESCO) - To mark the celebration of the International Day of Peace, UNESCO’s office in Bamako has organized the first edition of the “Youth Peace Games”, from September 19-21.
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27-09-2006 (UNESCO) - The International Seminar on Quality Physical Education was held in Saly, Senegal from 18-20 September 2006.
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05-09-2006 (UNESCO) - The 11th edition of the World Sport for All Congress, to take place from October 31 to November 3 2006, will focus on the theme Physical activity: benefits and challenges.
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04-09-2006 () - The significantly growing number of organisations in the private sector showing interest in cooperating with UNESCO in the domain of physical education and Sport (PES) is remarkable. The primary objective and the principal vision of these actors is to promote the quality of physical education to aid social and human development.
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09-08-2006 () - The two organisations will join forces to build capacity in physical education and to raise young people’s awareness to the benefits of sport.
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26-07-2006 () - Four speakers participated in the debate on “Sport for Peace and Development”:
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26-07-2006 () - On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of UNESCO the Sector of Social and Human Sciences organised a week of events dedicated to Sport for Peace and Development from 17 to 23 of July 2006.
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