UNESCO Office of Public Information (OPI)| Press Releases

[28.02.2000] - WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR UNESCO-SPONSORED INITIATIVE MARCH 8: WOMEN MAKE THE NEWS
Print, audiovisual and Internet media organisations from all over the world have announced they will take part in the operation March 8: Women Make the News, launched by UNESCO for this year's International Women's Day (March 8). Continue

[25.02.2000] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL PRESENTS MAIN THRUST OF HIS REFORM PROGRAMME TO UNESCO'S EXECUTIVE BOARD
Concentration and excellence in programmes, savings, rationalisation and transparency in management have emerged as the key words in UNESCO's reform, presented by the Organization's Director-General, Koīchiro Matsuura in a speech to the Executive Board Continue

[21.02.2000] - INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY CELEBRATED FOR THE FIRST TIME
International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by UNESCO's General Conference in November 1999, was celebrated for the first time today with a ceremony at Organization Headquarters. Continue

[17.02.2000] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNESCO SIGNS CHARTER FOR A FREE PRESS
The Chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee, James Ottaway, Jr., and UNESCO Director-General Koīchiro Matsuura signed the 10-point "Charter for a Free Press" which was adopted in 1987 at a WPFC-organised London conference with the world's leading free press advocacy groups. Continue

[16.02.2000] - NEW INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS TO ASSIST MEMBER STATES COLLECT RELIABLE DATA FOR POLICY-MAKING
UNESCO's new Institute for Statistics (UIS), created by the Organization's General Conference to collect and disseminate quality data on education, science, culture and communication with a view to assisting policy-makers world-wide, will hold its first Board Meeting on February 21 and 22 in Paris. Continue

[15.02.2000] - UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OUTLINES HIS VISION OF EDUCATION FOR ALL
UNESCO Director-General Koīchiro Matsuura presented his vision of how the Organization must work with other intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations to promote basic education ahead of the World Education Forum which will be held in Dakar (Senegal) in April this year. Continue

[09.02.2000] - UNESCO AND NIGERIA HIGHLIGHT EDUCATION IN THEIR REINFORCED COOPERATION
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and UNESCO Director-General Koīchiro Matsuura yesterday signed an aide-memoire expressing their commitment to the reinvigoration of cooperation between Nigeria and the organization.Continue

[08.02.2000] - EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA REDEFINE BASIC EDUCATION FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Forty-three countries from Europe and North America have decided to redefine national approaches to basic education and lay the foundations for lifelong learning, recognised as an indispensable instrument for individual empowerment in the emerging information-based society.Continue

[03.02.2000] - NINE HIGH-POPULATION COUNTRIES PLEDGE TO INTENSIFY EFFORTS TO ENSURE EDUCATION FOR ALL
Education ministers and officials from nine high-population developing countries (E-9) - Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan - reaffirmed their pledge to "sustain, intensify and accelerate their efforts and policies" in pursuing education for all, during a conference in the Brazilian city of Recife. Continue