[28.08.2001] - UNESCO TO PARTICIPATE IN DURBAN CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA
"UNESCO will be taking part in the World Conference on Racism and Xenophobia (Durban, South Africa, August 31 to September 7) during which it will organize three roundtable talks drawing attention to new types of discrimination - including those connected to advances in genetics - the consequences of the slave trade, and the role of the media in fighting racism."Continue

[16.08.2001] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE SLAVE TRADE AND ITS ABOLITION
"The commemoration, on 23 August, of the slave trade and its abolition takes place, this year, on the eve of the opening, on 31 August, of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban (South Africa), involving the active participation of all the organizations and agencies of the United Nations system, and in particular of UNESCO."Continue

[08.08.2001] - LAUREATES OF UNESCO LITERACY PRIZES 2001
UNESCO's international literacy prizes this year rewarded projects and programmes in New Zealand, Brazil, China, Haiti, and Senegal, as selected by an international jury that met in Paris in July to name the laureates of the International Reading Association Literacy Award, the Noma Literacy Prize, the two King Sejong Literacy Prizes and the Malcolm Adiseshiah International Literacy Prize.Continue

[06.08.2001] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL’S MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura has issued the following message on the occasion of the International Day of Indigenous People:Continue

[02.08.2001] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL VOICES GRAVE CONCERN AT MURDER OF GEORGIAN JOURNALIST
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today expressed grave concern about news of the killing of Georgian journalist Georgi Sanaia, who was found dead in his home late on Thursday, July 26, after he had been shot once in the head at close range. Continue