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New report! Check out the latest UN World Water Development Report, Leaving No One Behind, which explores the symptoms of exclusion & investigates ways to overcome inequalities.
https://on.unesco.org/wwdr #WWDR2019

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Back to 1967! We are in Iran, where a group of women are taking part in a sewing class taught alongside literacy classes as part of the work-orientated Adult Literacy Pilot Project.

The Experimental World Literacy Programme was established following the First World Congress of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy in Tehran in 1965.

The conference defined the concept of “functional literacy” and its links to economic development.

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Learn more about what UNESCO does on literacy: https://on.unesco.org/2jFTgri #FBF #FlashBackFriday #Iran #UNESCO #Literacy
Photo credit: © UNESCO/R. Greenough 📸📸📸

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What’s the impact of ocean observations in someone’s daily life? AtlantOS Project Coordinator Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research) will tell us more about it. https://on.unesco.org/2JL1XRd #Ocean #OceanData #OceanObservation #SaveOurOcean
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From Indonesia to Zimbabwe, Thailand to Jamaica, they are championing girls’ and women’s education and making a difference in their communities. Meet Dr Zoe Simpson, Cecep Somantri, Evernice Munando and Sompong Jantraka – four of the six previous laureates of the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education https://on.unesco.org/2utVIqo #GWEPrize
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Interview with historian Nell Irvin Painter
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