INSIDE
       


EDITO

   

AGENDA


LEARNING WORLD
Windows on life
Power to the people
University Students Tackle
illiteracy


FOCUS
Education for War
or for Peace

INTERVIEW
Learning peace in Rwanda
Combating discriminbation in Chile
The risk of losing our
humanity


EDUCATION FOR ALL
Parliamentarians Campaign for EFA
The EFA 'doctors'
Support EFA, Celebrate EFA Week !
3 questions to Simon Ellis
World tour


BRIEFS
Education initiatives
around the world

Latin America's Education
Draw me Peace
Mind your language
Pipeline to learning
The value of experience
Street children dream
50 candles for UIE

BOOKSHELF

AGENDA

   

APRIL

Meeting of the Inter-sectoral Committee on Higher Education o UNESCO Paris - 4 April -
Contact: k.seddoh@unesco.org

Central Asian Regional Statistical Workshop for EFA - Organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics o Istanbul, Turkey - 11 April -
Contact: s.ellis@unesco.org

EFA Regional Statistical Workshop for English-speaking Africa - Organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Victoria, Seychelles - 18 April
Contact: s.ellis@unesco.org

Joint UNESCO/UNAIDS Workshop on Combating HIV/AIDS by Education: the Case of Street Children in Southern Africa - Organized by UNESCO and the Namibian National Commission for UNESCO - Windhoek, Namibia - 15-19 April
Contact: l.saldari@unesco.org

First Conference of African Counsellors on Guidance, Counselling and Youth Development in Africa o organized by UNESCO, Italy and the International Association for Counselling
Nairobi, Kenya - 22-26 April
Contacts: w.gordon@unesco.org and u.kalha@unesco.org

Interagency Strategic Group Meeting on Lifelong Learning - organized by the UNESCO Institute for Education - Hamburg, Germany - 25-26 April o Contact: t.ohsako@unesco

MAY

Pacific Regional Statistical Workshop for EFA Organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Auckland, New Zealand - 2 May
Contact: s.ellis@unesco.org

Regional Meeting on Education for All in Latin America: the Quest for Equity - Organized by UNESCO Santiago - Santiago, Chile - 2-5 May
Contact: m.umayahara@unesco.cl

Caribbean Regional Statistical Workshop for EFA - Organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - 9 May
Contact: s.ellis@unesco.org

Protecting the Rights of Young Children Affected and Infected by HIV/AIDS in Africa: Updating Strategies and Reinforcing Existing Networks - organized by UNESCO and the Early Childhood Development Network for Africa (ECDNA) - UNESCO Pariso 13-17 May
Contact: b.combes@unesco.org

Regional Statistical Workshop for EFA in North and West Africa (French-speaking countries) - Organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Bamako, Mali - 16 May
Contact: s.ellis@unesco.org

JUNE

Adult Education, Democracy and Critical Citizenship - organized by the UNESCO Institute for Education - Hamburg, Germany - 17-19 June
Contact: m.elfert@unesco.org


JULY

3rd Meeting of the Working Group on Education for All - UNESCO Paris - 22-24 July
Contact: a.singh@unesco.org



     
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