[31.10.2002] -
UNESCO LAUNCHES NEW ARAL SEA BASIN INITIATIVE
- Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura will announce
tomorrow a new initiative to study the Aral Sea Basin under the
auspices of the World Water Assessment Programme, which brings
together 23 United Nations agencies through a secretariat hosted
by UNESCO.(...)Continue
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[29.10.2002] -
MOUNTAIN SUMMIT OPENS IN KYRGYZSTAN - Climate
change the focus of UNESCO initiative
- Bishkek - UNESCO's
Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today announced a new
UNESCO initiative to use its unique network of biosphere reserves
to monitor global climate change. In his opening address to the
Global Mountain Summit that kicked off today in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan),
he pointed out that mountains are proving to be extremely sensitive
to global change.(...)Continue
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[28.10.2002] -
UNESCO LAUNCHES GLOBAL CHANGE MONITORING
PROGRAMME - Bishkek - UNESCO's unique network of Biosphere
Reserves is set to have a new role - monitoring global climate
change. Out of the 408 biosphere reserves in 94 countries, 138
are in mountain areas. And mountains are proving to be extremely
sensitive to global warming.(...)Continue
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[24.10.2002] -
DIRECTOR-GENERAL CONDEMNS MURDER OF JOURNALISTS
IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN - Paris - UNESCO Director-General
Koïchiro Matsuura today urged Pakistan and India to bring
the assassins of two journalists to justice.(...)Continue
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23.10.2002] - DIRECTOR-GENERAL
RECALLS IMPORTANCE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AFTER BANNING OF JOURNALIST
FROM BEIRUT SUMMIT - Paris - UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro
Matsuura today recalled the paramount importance of freedom of
expression in response to reports concerning journalist Gideon
Kouts who was prevented from exercising his professional activity
during an international Summit in Lebanon late last week, despite
his accreditation to the meeting as a reporter for French publication
L'Arche.(...)Continue
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- Arabe
[17.10.2002] -
CLOSE OF THE 165TH SESSION OF UNESCO'S
EXECUTIVE BOARD - Paris - The 165th session of UNESCO's
Executive Board, chaired by Aziza Bennani (Morocco), ended today
after ten days of debate about the execution of the Organization's
programme and its future orientations.(...)Continue
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[25.10.2002]-
UNESCO
EXECUTIVE BOARD CREATES COMMITTEE FOR THE SAFEGUARD OF AFGHANISTAN’S
CULTURAL HERITAGE - Paris - UNESCO’s Executive Board,
meeting at the Organization’s Paris Headquarters from October
7 to 17 - has approved the creation of an International Coordination
Committee for the Safeguarding of Afghanistan’s Cultural
Heritage.(...)Continue
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[14.10.2002] -
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DRUG
TRAFFICKING - Paris - The Mexican drug cartels, as major
suppliers of the North American market, rake in annual profits
of between 10 and 30 billion dollars. When Mexico was deep in
financial crisis in 1995, the drug money laundered was equal to
what the country earned from its oil exports. These two estimates
illustrate the enormous industry that drug trafficking had become
during the 1980s and 1990s.(...)Continue
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- Arabe
[10.10.2002] -
FOR UNESCO, SPACE TECHNOLOGIES SHOULD BE
HARNESSED FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Paris 2002 - For
a better understanding of life on Earth we must look to space,
through an expanding constellation of satellites, to monitor such
critical factors as pollution levels, urban sprawl and the risks
of natural disasters.(...)Continue
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[10.10.2002] -
MEDIA AND CULTURE CENTRE OPENS IN KABUL
TO BOOST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN AFGHANISTAN - Paris/Kabul
- Efforts to promote freedom of expression in Afghanistan took
a big step forward today with the official opening of the Afghan
Media and Culture Centre in Kabul. The centre, which UNESCO has
equipped with ten computers connected to the Internet via satellite,
is already home to nine independent publications.(...)Continue
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[09.10.2002] -
TIMOR-LESTE PRESIDENT XANANA GUSMÃO
TO RECEIVE UNESCO'S 2002 FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY PEACE PRIZE
- Paris - Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor, was today
chosen as the laureate of the 2002 Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Peace Prize by an international jury presided by former US Secretary
of State and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henry Kissinger.(...)Continue
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[09.10.2002] -
INAUGURATION OF THE BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA:
FROM PAPYRUS TO DIGITALIZATION - Paris
- The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the largest library in the Middle
East and Africa, will be officially inaugurated next October 16,
marking the rebirth of the institution founded over 2,000 years
ago by Ptolemy I in northern Egypt. The ceremony, which was due
to take place on April 23 was delayed because of events in the
Middle East. It consecrates an exceptional architectural complex,
equipped with state-of-the-art information technologies.(...)
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[08.10.2002] -
DIRECTOR-GENERAL EXPRESSES CONCERN AT MURDER
OF BRAZILIAN JOURNALIST - Paris - UNESCO Director-General
Koïchiro Matsuura today expressed grave concern about news
of the murder of yet another journalist, Domingos Savio Brandão
Lima Junior, owner, publisher and columnist of the daily Folha
do Estado, in Cuiaba, Brazil. He was shot near his newspapers's
new offices, currently under construction, on 30 September.(...)Continue
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[08.10.2002] -
NEW TECHNOLOGIES HELPING TO SAVE WORLD
HERITAGE - Paris
- As UNESCO prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the
World Heritage Convention, adopted on November 16, 1972, preservationists
campaigning to save sites, landscapes and monuments of "exceptional
universal value" still face serious threats, even though
most of the 730 world heritage sites* are well managed.(...)Continue
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[05.10.2002] -
MORE CHILDREN, FEWER TEACHERS: NEW UNESCO-ILO
STUDY SEES GLOBAL TEACHER SHORTAGE CAUSING DECLINE IN QUALITY
EDUCATION - Paris/Geneva - Relentless population growth
and declining working conditions are creating a severe shortage
of teachers in the world's classrooms that may lead to a slide
in education standards, according to a new global study by UNESCO
and the Geneva-based International Labour Office.(...)Continue
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[04.10.2002] -
AUNG SAN SUU KYI WINNER OF THE 2002 UNESCO-MADANJEET
SINGH PRIZE FOR TOLERANCE AND NON-VIOLENCE - Paris
- Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar was named laureate of the UNESCO-Madanjeet
Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence by
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today on the unanimous
recommendation of an international jury.(...)Continue
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[02.10.2002] - NEW
TEXT BOOKS AND CURRICULUM FOR AFGHAN CHILDREN - Paris
- An agreement establishing a funds-in-trust to finance the upgrading
of textbooks and renewal of the education curriculum for some
three million school children in Afghanistan was signed today
by UNESCO and the Government of Germany.(...)Continue
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