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| SHS e-news n° 2 – May 2006 – Call for nominations for the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education |
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- In May 2006, the UNESCO Sector for Social and Human Sciences is calling for nominations for the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education. The name of the 15th laureate of the Prize will be announced on 10 December 2006, on the occasion of Human Rights Day.
The Prize, amounting to US$10,000, was created in 1978 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to encourage organizations and individuals that have made an exemplary contribution to the advancement of knowledge on human rights. The prizewinner will also receive a diploma and trophy – a bronze sculpture, created for UNESCO by the Japanese artist Toshimi Ishii, known as “Toshi”.
Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO, intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations maintaining official relations with UNESCO are invited to submit nominations of an individual or an organization whose activities merit this distinction.
National or international institutions that provide education and training in human rights and are active in building a universal culture of human rights are invited to submit nominations through the National Commissions for UNESCO of the country where those human rights institutions have their headquarters.
Information about the Prize is available, in English and in French, on the website of the UNESCO Sector for Social and Human Sciences at the following address: www.unesco.org/shs/human_rights_prize, from where the relevant nomination form can be downloaded. The form should be sent no later than 8 September 2006 to Mr Vladimir Volodin, Secretary of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education, UNESCO, 1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, tel. : + 33 1 45 68 38 45 / fax : (33-1) 45 68 57 26 / e-mail : uphre@unesco.org.- In addition, as you may already know, instead of commemorating its 60th anniversary with a single event, UNESCO is celebrating over sixty weeks. From September 2005 through to November 2006, the Organization hopes to provide Permanent Delegations, staff, UNESCO partners and the general public with a year-long opportunity of learning more about the Organization’s programme.
On 15 different occasions the Social and Human Sciences Programme is taking centre stage to celebrate the anniversary of UNESCO, and the month of May 2006 will be an opportunity to discover, or re-discover, the Sector’s Foresight programme.
Next Tuesday, 9 May, at a meeting to be held from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., several personalities will thus have "60 minutes to convince" the public on the purpose of foresight studies. How, in fact, are we to imagine and anticipate our future without first empowering ourselves with the tools and spaces for prediction? And what role can international organizations play in this field? Questions such as these will be explored by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Hélé Béji, writer, essayist and novelist, and Mohammed Arkoun, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University, at this meeting co-chaired by the directors of the Division of Foresight and Bureau of Public Information of UNESCO, Jérome Bindé and Saturnino Muñoz Gomez.
The same day, from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, will open and preside over the debates of the new session of 21st Century Talks, which are among the “flagship” activities of the organization in the field of Foresight. The topic "Might all disappear? Species, languages, cultures, values, etc.", will bring together four speakers of world renown: Jean Baudrillard, Hélé Béji, Norman Myers and Adama Samassekou.
We have pleasure in inviting you to take part in these events which will be held at UNESCO House in Paris (France). Reports of both events will be posted on UNESCO’s website (www.unesco.org) in the section covering the sixtieth anniversary of the Organization. The reports may also be consulted on the SHS website.
Other events planned for the month of May:- 4 May: on the day following the 3rd meeting of the management committee of the European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR), to take place in the Swedish capital on 3 May, a workshop on "the fight against discriminations and the support for the equal rights" will be held within the framework of the European Conference "Urban Future 2.0." The workshop is co-organized by the city of Stockholm, the Swedish Ministry of Justice and the European Union.
- 16 May: round-table discussion on the topic of "culture and equality in the European Union", with the participation of Professor Sayla Benhabib of Yale University, and Valentine Moghadam, the head of the Gender Equality Section of UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector. Room XIII, Bonvin building, UNESCO, Paris (France).
- 17 and 19 May: Expert meeting on Gender, organized by the UNESCO Office in Bujumbura, providing an opportunity to discuss the feasibility and the mechanisms for setting up a Programme of Higher Education on Gender and Women’s issues in Burundi.
- 19 May: the book Beijing and Beijing will be presented at the workshop organized by the UNESCO Office in Beijing (China) on the sustainable social development of the historical districts of the Chinese city.
- 24 May: the inauguration of a new UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the National University of Brasilia (Brazil) will mark the start of a series of meetings in summer 2006, planned in several countries of Latin America to promote the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in October 2005.
- 25 and 26 May: with the aim of launching a Coalition of African Cities against Racism in September 2006, a regional meeting will bring together experts in Durban (South Africa) in order to develop a ten-point plan of action. This ten-point plan of action will serve as a common platform of commitments for this new Coalition.
Agenda of UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector: www.unesco.org/shs/agenda
UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector website: www.unesco.org/shs
SHS Newsletter website: www.unesco.org/shs/newsletter
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UNESCO Sector for Social and Human Sciences |
| Publication Date |
05-05-2006 |
| Source |
UNESCO |
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