2004 Celebrations: UNESCO

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2004 Celebrations

International Women's Day is an opportunity to focus on the unique contributions, problems and opportunities that women face all over the world. It is both a celebration of achievement and a reminder of how far we have to go. This year, on 8 March, the United Nations system is highlighting the many issues surrounding Women and AIDS, which is also the mobilizing theme for the 2004 World AIDS Campaign....

05-12-2004Message by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2004
It is both a celebration of achievement and a reminder of how far we have to go. This year, on 8 March, the United Nations system is highlighting the many issues surrounding women and AIDS, which is also the mobilizing theme for the 2004-2005 World AIDS campaign. AIDS is damaging and threatening many advances in human development, including efforts to improve the status and well-being of women everywhere. I take this opportunity to invite all our partners to renew the commitments made in Beijing in 1995 to the empowerment of women, which is a necessary condition for development and for building a future without HIV/AIDS. More

13-03-2004PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
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12-03-2004L'Oréal and UNESCO making a real difference for women scientists worldwide
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02-03-2004The South helps the South in the struggle against HIV/AIDS
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01-03-2004"Women make the news" UNESCO APPEAL
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29-02-2004In movement : UNESCO salutes Women Video Artists in the World
Paris, 9 February - 1 March 2004. Exhibit inaugurated by M. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO, "In Movement: UNESCO Salutes Women In Video Art", was on display at UNESCO Headquarters on the occasion of the Organization's celebration of International Women's Day. “In Movement” a show that kept us literally on our toes. It moves – and keeps us moving... More

Message from the Director General

UNAIDS Presentation Dr Luc Barrière-Constantin
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2004 Celebrations

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