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Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO: Special Issue 2001-2010 with SHSviews n°27
SHSviews’ first issue of 2010 has just been published in English, French and Spanish, and will also be available in Russian. Covering the news from January-March 2010, SHSviews 27 is accompanied by a special issue covering the strategy of UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences programme for 2001-2011 and looks back over the main results obtained during the past decade.

SHS e-News 49 / April 2010
2010-04-07 8:30 am

In the table of contents of the special issue 2001-2010:

2 / UNESCO’s social and human sciences strategy for 2010-2011

3 / Three questions for… Pierre Sané

5 / The ethical challenges of climate change

8 / The Youth Challenge

9 / Strengthening the social research-policy nexus

10 / Promoting human rights and empowering women

12 / SHS: 10 years of action in pictures

CENTRAL POSTER / The UNESCO network in Social and Human Sciences

In the table of content of SHSviews 27:

Ethics of Science

Bioethics Committees networked in Mexico
The IBC will continue research on human cloning
Assisting Bioethics Committees: Priority for Africa in 2010
Towards a Bioethics Committee in Kenya
Patricio Bernal : “Climate change has become an issue for society”
2009 Avicenna Prize awarded to a Chinese specialist in bioethics

Human Rights

Arab-African migration: talking frankly in Cairo
Somalia: the “Greater Horn Horizon” offers prospects for ending the crisis
Poverty and human rights: decision-making tools
A collection of books to eradicate poverty using a human rights based approach
Two humanists share the 2009 Madanjeet Singh Prize
Gala for the Education of Children in Need
The right to education: handing the floor to young people
World Philosophy Day 2009: several thousand participants in 35 countries
First Assembly of the International Network of Women Philosophers
Advocacy in Indonesia for more inclusive societies
Relaunch of the African Coalition against Racism
Latin America fuels the debate
The European Coalition changes course

Social Transformations

Meeting in Rio for cities with a human face
Shanghai 2010 : An international exhibition on “Better City, Better Life”
“Africities” welcomes the MOST Programme
Argentina at the head of the MOST Programme
Increase in Funds to Fight against Doping
Social development: a regional framework for East Africa
Social development: Third South-Asian Forum of Ministers
Youth at the heart of the 1st Forum of Ministers of the Caribbean

Publications

Teaching Philosophy: a UNESCO collection to understand regional challenges
“Knowledge” and “legitimacy” on the front page of the ISSJ

Last minute

Preview of Invictus at UNESCO Headquarters
Towards worldwide monitoring of youth initiatives
The World Youth Conference in Mexico City

Other events relating to UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Programme in April 2010

13-14 April: 1st Projovem Young Exhibition, Brasilia, Brazil.
19-20 April: Regional Experts consultation meeting on the advisability of preparing a Declaration of ethical principles in relation to climate change, Yerevan, Armenia.
22-23 April: Regional Experts consultation meeting on the advisability of preparing a Declaration of ethical principles in relation to climate change, Yokohama, Japan.
26-27 April: Regional Experts consultation meeting on the advisability of preparing a Declaration of ethical principles in relation to climate change, Auckland, New-Zealand.

Just published

Ética ambiental y políticas internacionales
Colección Ética
Edited by Henk A. M. J. ten Have
978-92-3-304039-7, 238 p
Also available in English and French
For sale at UNESCO Publishing

Nation-states and the challenges of regional integration in West Africa. The case of Nigeria
Edited by Yomi Akinyeye
978-2-8111-0338-5, 256 p
For sale at Éditions Karthala

World Philosophy Day: Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, November 16-19, 2009 - UNESCO-sponsored programmes and publications
Corporate authors: Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Philosophy; Russian Federation. National Commission for UNESCO; Russian Federation. Permanent Delegation to UNESCO
DVD: Multilingual English, French, Russian

Программа этического образования. Раздел 1: учебный план
Russian version of Bioethics core curriculum, section 1: Syllabus Ethics Education Programme
SHS/EST/EEP/2008/PI/1 (Rev. only in Eng). Will soon be available in Hebrew
Also available in French, Spanish, Arabic

Durkheim and violence
International Social Science Journal Monograph Series
Edited by S. Romi Mukherjee
978-1-4443-3275-9, 204 p
For sale at Wiley/Blackwell

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