[29.07.2002] -
WHERE HAVE ALL THE BEACHES GONE? -
Paris - When some of the 27 million international tourists
visiting Africa go to relax by the ocean this summer, they could
find the beach is no longer there. The coastline is receding at
1-2 metres per year in parts of Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia and
other African countries.(...)Continue
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[25.07.2002]
- THIRD MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP ON
EDUCATION FOR ALL - Paris
- More than 100 million children around the world, most of them
girls, do not go to school. If nothing is done, they will join
the 875 million adults who are illiterate.(...)Continue
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[25.07.2002] - UNESCO
RALLIES JAPANESE PUBLIC TO PRESERVE AFGHANISTAN'S CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Tokyo / Paris - As
Afghans start rebuilding their country with the help of the international
community, it is more urgent than ever to make the public in donor
countries aware of what is needed.(...)Continue
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[09.07.2002] - REBUILDING
AFGHANISTAN’S EDUCATION SYSTEM
-
UNESCO is seeking some US$27 million dollars to help Afghanistan
rebuild a sustainable education system and to meet the country's
most urgent education needs, in particular the rehabilitation
of Kabul University to jump-start higher education, training for
education managers and teachers, and the development of non-formal
and distance education to tackle one of the world's highest rates
of illiteracy.(...)Continue
[08.07.2002] - LAUREATES
OF UNESCO LITERACY PRIZES 2002 - Paris, July 8 - UNESCO’s
international literacy prizes this year go to projects and programmes
in Egypt, Eritrea, Uganda and Pakistan. An international jury
met in Paris from July 1 to 5 to decide the laureates of the
International Reading Association Prize, the Noma Prize and
the two King Sejong Literacy Prizes. The Malcolm Adiseshiah
Prize was not awarded this year.(...)Continue
