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| Workshop: towards the integration of gender in the Congolese education system - (Bureau UNESCO - Kinshasa)
 The Ministry for Primary, Secondary Education and Professional Training (EPSP) organized, on 3 and 4 September 2008 at the Cercle Elaeïs, a workshop with the support of UNESCO and UNFPA, to ratify the Teacher’s Guide for gender education and the teachers training Module for a gender based approach. (only available in French) |
| Briefing on Female Genital Mutilation, Geneva, Switzerland, 20 May 2008 - (UNESCO BSP/GE)
 Opening remarks by Ms S. Gülser Corat (Dir. BSP/GE)
On the occasion of the briefing on Female Genital Mutilation organized by the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC) within the context of the WHO World Health Assembly.
Geneva, Palais des Nations
20 May 2008, 13:00-15:00 |
| Feature article : Burkina's Women Shape Progress. - (Brenda Gael McSweeney and Scholastique Kompaoré)
 Learn more about how UNESCO's pioneering work for equal access of women and girls to education links to some of the most successful initiatives today that are lightening women's workloads and freeing time for learning and income-generating activities. |
| 34th session of the General Conference Side Event : "Priority Gender Equality 2008-2013" - (BSP/GE)
Wednesday 17 October 2007 - 10 - 11 a.m. (Room IX
The Section for Women and Gender Equality of the Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP/WGE) will organize an information session, followed by questions and answers, on the preparation of UNESCO’s Priority Gender Equality Action Plan for 2008-2013 on Wednesday 17 October 2007 from 10 to 11 a.m. in Room IX. |
| Open discussion with Professor Vinh-Kim NGUYEN - (UNESCO)
 Professor Vinh-Kim NGUYEN, physician and medical anthropologist Associate professor in the department of social and preventive medicine, University of Montreal, Canada, was speaking on : "Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century: Social Triage – Gender and the Response to HIV in Africa" on Thursday 4 October 2007 – in UNESCO Headquarters. |
| Conference: « Europe: Development through Migration and Integration » - (UNESCO BSP/WGE)
 Thursday |10 May 2007 | 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., UNESCO – Room IV
The conference will put the global geopolitical situation into perspective and will also discuss political, sociological and demographic aspects of migration. Furthermore, findings from empirical research in Paris and Berlin will be presented and the gender dimensions of international migration will be taken into account in order to make the “invisible half” of migrants – women who for a long time were not being considered by research on migration – visible. Experts from scientific, political and cultural fields in Germany, France, Senegal and Spain will participate in the conference. |
| Global Action Week: zoom on Afghanistan - (Education)
 23-04-2007 (UNESCO-Paris) To mark Global Action Week, 23-29 April, UNESCO is organizing a photo exhibition in homage to leading Afghan defender of girls’ education, Safia Ama Jan, who was murdered in 2006 for her activism. |
| "6O mn to convince" on Gender Equality - (UNESCO BSP/WGE)
 Tuesday April 3 2007 in Room IX from 2 to 3pm.
The weekly “60 Minutes” meetings,organized by BPI, offer an occasion for staff, members of Permanent Delegations and guest speakers, to meet and discuss themes and activities of importance to UNESCO. |
| UNESCO pays tribute to 60 women contributing to the 60 years of UNESCO - (UNESCO)
 60 years of UNESCO’s history are brought to life through the voices of 60 women who either have contributed, or who continue to contribute to UNESCO in different capacities. This volume gathers their perspectives, thus providing
a unique documentation of the critical role women play in building UNESCO and in promoting its ideals. |
| Women and Research: Tangible Progress? - (UNESCO BSP/WGE)
 01-12-2006, UNESCO HQ (PARIS). Within the framework of the Second International Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy, the Round Table will address the issue of women’s involvement in higher education, particularly in research, and their advancement in this sphere. See the VIDEO (English only) |
| Interview with Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -“The problem is silence” - (UNESCO BPI)
 23-11-2006, UNESCO HQ (PARIS).Interview with Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Independent expert for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children, attending a UNESCO Roundtable on School Related Gender Based Violence held in Paris on 23 November 2006. |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visits UNESCO, for International Women’s Day - (UNESCO)
 Paris, 6 March 2006 --The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected president of an African country, opens an international conference entitled Women in Politics organized by UNESCO within the framework of the celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March. The celebration includes several events from 6 to 30 March at the Organization’s Headquarters under the general heading Women and Decision-Making. Read Ms Johnson Sirleaf's speech. See the VIDEO. |
| Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai - A Woman Who Made the Desert Bloom - (Mehri Madarshahi ; March 2005)
 Wangari Maathai has contributed a new interpretation to the notion of peace, challenging prevailing wisdom and traditional approaches. The 2004 Nobel Peace Committee took up this challenge by recognizing the innate links between peace, democracy, prosperity and sustainable development as advocated by Wangari. |
| Fashion show at UNESCO for the benefit of women living with HIV/AIDS - 13 December 2004 - (UNESCO)
 Brought together by the same passion for style, the association La Main Fine and the Centre supérieur des techniques de l’art MODE’ESTAH will present a fashion show entitled “L’Afrique: un autre regard” (“Africa: Another Vision”) on December 13 (6.30 p.m.) at UNESCO. Organized for the benefit of women living with HIV/AIDS, and with the support of UNESCO’s Section for Women and Gender Equality, the show is one of the World AIDS Day (December 1) activities. |
| UNESCO Celebrates WAD 1 December 2004 - (UNESCO)
 It is estimated that, worldwide, nearly half the people who are HIV-positive are women and girls. Women typically know less than men about the transmission of HIV and about the prevention of transmission. They also are typically less empowered to act on their knowledge. Gender inequality and gender-based violence are leading factors in this crisis, rendering women the most vulnerable to the epidemic and its effects. |
| "Africain(e)s d'ici et là-bas uni(e)s pour vaincre le side" - Saturday 20 November 2004 - (UNESCO)
 Saturday 20 November 2004, UNESCO Headquarters
This day aims to draw public attention to the resilience of the African communities facing HIV/AIDS. Building on the enthusiasm galvanized on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2004, we will be debating policy issues related to ‘mobility, HIV/AIDS and women’, as well as orphans, sharing good prevention care and support practices and last, but not least, celebrating community resilience. |
| FIRST GLOBAL CONGRESS OF BLACK WOMEN LEADERS - (UNESCO - GCBW)
Paris, 1 to 2 July 2005 -- Event organized by the Global Congress of Black Women Leaders, Inc in the U.S.A in partnership with several other associations and the support of the Section for Women and Gender Equality of the Bureau of Strategic Planning at UNESCO. |
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