From the Wrangel Island in the far north of Siberia and the mysterious Cueva de las Manos in Patagonia... What could these two World Heritage sites have in common?

Although one is home to polar bears and the other to 10,000 year-old cave paintings, yet, both are irreplaceable reminders of the importance of safeguarding humanity’s heritage, for our planet and ourselves.
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That's right! This is Mount Fuji, or Fujisan, in Japan! This was inscribed on @UNESCO 's World Heritage list in 2013 under the name 'Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration'.

The beauty of the solitary, often snow-capped, stratovolcano, known around the world as Mount Fuji, rising above villages and tree-fringed sea and lakes, has long been the object of pilgrimages and inspired artists and poets.

The inscribed property consists of 25 sites which reflect the essence of Fujisan’s sacred and artistic landscape. In the 12th century, Fujisan became the centre of training for ascetic Buddhism, which included Shinto elements. On the upper 1,500-metre tier of the 3,776m mountain, pilgrim routes and crater shrines have been inscribed alongside sites around the base of the mountain including Sengen-jinja shrines, Oshi lodging houses, and natural volcanic features such as lava tree moulds, lakes, springs and waterfalls, which are revered as sacred. Its representation in Japanese art goes back to the 11th century, but 19th century woodblock prints of views, including those from sand beaches with pine tree groves have made Fujisan an internationally recognized icon of Japan and have had a deep impact on the development of Western art.

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The need for good quality comprehensive #sexualityeducation (CSE) is critical!

Check out revised Technical Guidance on CSE by UNESCO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and World Health Organization

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In a time where women are speaking up against violence and abuse, reading again Simone de Beauvoir's work is more than ever a needed exercise.

Born exactly 110 years-ago, on 9 January 1908, in Paris, France, Simone De Beauvoir was a major writer and existentialist philosopher who marked the 20th century philosophy with her analysis of women's condition.

De Beauvoir transformed the world's understanding of women's oppression in her study 'The Second Sex', published 1949. This book became a foundational tract of contemporary feminism but also attracted violent critiques. In this work, De Beauvoir turned the existentialist mantra that ‘existence precedes essence’ into a feminist one: ‘one is not born but becomes a woman’. She argued that the relation between women and men is a social construction and that the fundamental source of women’s oppression is precisely this social and also historical construction. This book and De Beauvoir’s ideas marked the women’s fight in the 1970s.

Among other works, De Beauvoir was the author of novels like ‘She Came to Stay’, ‘The Mandarins’, or essays like ‘Pyrrhus et Cinéas’ or ‘The Ethics of Ambiguity’.

Simone de Beauvoir showed us the power of philosophy to change the world, by giving us the lucidity to ask the right questions, and conviction to defend human dignity.

The Ocean is suffocating
Ocean zones with zero oxygen have quadrupled in size since 1950
No oxygen = No life
Let's save our Ocean before it is too late
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In harmony with the sea: a story from a marine protected area 🌊http://on.unesco.org/2qOSw4i #SaveOurOcean #SDG14

Solidarity.
Respect.
Equal dignity,
Tolerance.

These are the values we need to fight racism and all forms of discrimination

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We are building peace where it starts: in the minds of men & women.
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