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25-03-2010 (UNESCO) - A Regional Documentation and Information Centre for Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology (RDIC-BEST) will be inaugurated on 29 March 2010 in Cairo, Egypt, at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt.
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17-03-2010 (UNESCO) - The fifth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF) will be held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) from 22 to 26 March under the theme “The Right to the City - Bridging the Urban Divide.” The world’s leading conference on cities, which is organized by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT) every two years, examines the most pressing problems related to the urban context.
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19-02-2010 (UNESCOPRESS) - The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova launched the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures with the establishment of the High Panel on Peace and Dialogue among Cultures. “This day marks the beginning of an intellectual journey throughout which we will reflect on ways to trace new perspectives for peace in the 21st Century,” declared the Director-General.
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04-02-2010 (SHS e-News 47 / February 2010) - A third meeting of the Steering Committee of the Institute of West Africa (WAI) took place from 22 to 24 February 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (France) to finalize the modalities for the creation of this international research institute dedicated to regional integration and social transformation in West Africa, scheduled for first quarter 2010, in Praia (Cape Verde).
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18-01-2010 (UNESCO) - Almost five years after its initial launch in 2004, the European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR), a network of 97 cities from 20 countries, held its third General Conference in the French city of Toulouse from 19 to 20 November 2009. Representatives from over 50 cities, the Council of Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and numerous civil society groups gathered to discuss ways and means to better address racism and discrimination at the local level.
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11-01-2010 (UNESCO) - The French Premiere of Invictus was hosted by UNESCO in Paris on 11 January 2010. The objective was to highlight the power of “sport for reconciliation”, and the importance of the fight against racism to the cause of peace and conflict resolution.
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10-01-2010 (UNESCO) - UNESCO is organizing an online discussion on Gender equality, Education and Training as part of the 15-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action.
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07-01-2010 (SHS e-News 46 / January 2010) - The 1st Forum of Ministers of Social Development for the Caribbean was organized by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture of the Government of Jamaica, in cooperation with the UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme and the UNESCO Office in Kingston, from 24 to 26 January 2010.
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11-12-2009 (UNESCO) - The Director-General of UNESCO has awarded the 2009 Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science to Professor Renzong Qiu (People’s Republic of China). The laureate was honoured formally by the Deputy Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Marcio Barbosa, on behalf of the Director-General, at a ceremony that took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 18 December 2009.
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05-12-2009 (UNESCO) - Climate change is one of the major concerns for the international community. Among its consequences, its impact on migration is the object of increasing attention from both policy-makers and researchers. As the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change put it, “greater resource scarcity, desertification, risks of droughts and floods, and rising sea levels could drive many millions of people to migrate.’
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02-12-2009 (SHS e-News 45 / December 2009) - The first meeting of the Permanent Forum of the Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights took place from 7 to 9 December 2009 at the headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo (Egypt), with the primary objective of examining the impact of migratory flows in these two regions.
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24-11-2009 (UNESCO Office in Rabat) - The Arabic version of the book Human Rights: Questions and Answers by Leah Levin (illustrated by Plantu), translated and printed with the support of the Italian Development Cooperation – Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was presented in Rabat (Morocco), on Wednesday 25 November 2009.
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10-11-2009 (UNESCOPRESS) - The UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence was presented to this year’s two laureates - François Houtart, Belgian sociologist and theologian, and Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist – at a ceremony on Monday 16 November at UNESCO’s Paris Headquarters on International Day for Tolerance.
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28-10-2009 (UNESCO) - The Sixteenth Session of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (IBC) will take place in Mexico City (Mexico) from 23 to 25 November 2009. Organized in cooperation with the Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias of the Presidency of Mexico, it will be followed by a European Commission-UNESCO conference of experts and members of national bioethics committees from around the world from 26 to 28 November. Initially planned for last May, the two meetings were postponed due to the A(H1N1) flu epidemic.
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15-10-2009 (UNESCOPRESS) - The 35th session of the General Conference of UNESCO on 15 October elected Irina Bokova as Director-General of the Organization. Ms Bokova was designated by UNESCO’s Executive Board on 22 September.
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02-10-2009 (SHS e-News 43 / October 2009) - The International Coalition of Cities against Racism (ICCAR) will hold two international conferences this month: the first one, in Nuremberg (Germany), from 5 to 6 October, and the second one, in Bandung (Indonesia), from 29 to 31 October.
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28-09-2009 (UNESCO) - The 2nd Forum of Ministers for Social Development of East Africa will be held in Bujumbura (Burundi) from 5 to 8 October 2009. The Forum will be organized by the East African Community (EAC) and supported by UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST).
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27-09-2009 (UNESCO) - From 19 to 20 November 2009, the European Coalition of Cities against Racism (ECCAR) organized its third annual conference in Toulouse (France) under the theme: “Cities against Racism: New Challenges - New Partnerships: Shaping our Future”.
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26-09-2009 (UNESCOPRESS) - On the eve of the opening of the 35th General Conference of UNESCO, 128 young people from 89 countries and some 84 observers representing 68 organizations took part in the 6th UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris, which was held from 1 to 3 October at UNESCO. This year’s theme was “Investing out of the crisis: towards a partnership between UNESCO and youth organizations”.
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25-09-2009 (UNESCO) - Ministers of Social Development, social science researchers and representatives from NGOs and the private sector from all over the world met at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (France) from 28 to 30 September 2009 for the 9th session of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST), to analyze the social impact of the global economic crisis.
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07-09-2009 (SHS e-News 42 / September 2009) - The 9th session of the Intergovernmental Council (IGC) of the Management of Social Transformations programme (MOST) will take place at the Organization’s headquarters (Fontenoy, Room IV) in Paris (France) from 28 to 30 September 2009.
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01-09-2009 (UNESCO) - Following the change in the dates of the ninth session of the MOST Intergovernmental Council, it is now scheduled at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 28 to 30 September 2009.
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21-08-2009 (UNESCO) - The 7th Forum of Ministers of Social Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Government of Ecuador and UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme, took place in Quito (Ecuador) from 27 to 29 August 2009 with the support of UNICEF.
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20-08-2009 (UNESCO) - The Regional Unit in Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) of the UNESCO office in Bangkok is holding, on August 25 2009, a consultation of social science experts from the Asia-Pacific region within the framework of the Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia and the Pacific (EETAP) project in Bangkok (Thailand).
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19-08-2009 (UNESCO) - UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector is organizing, with the Haitian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO and the Organization’s Office in the country, an international Symposium on “The Haitian Revolution and the Universality of Human Rights” in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from 21-23 August 2009.
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