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  • Special Themes
    • Preventing Youth Violence
    • Education for Sustainable Development
    • Ethnic and Racial Relations in Brazil
    • Promoting Sites of Exceptional Value

Special Themes

In addition to its main five thematic areas of action, UNESCO also acts within a range of interdisciplinary, crosscutting, mainstreaming and priority focused themes.  UNESCO Brasilia's activities within these special areas are as follows.

  • Education for Sustainable Development

  • Ethnic and Racial Relations - Preventing Discrimination

  • Preventing Youth Violence

  • Promoting Sites of Exceptional Value

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

    Open Schools Programme

  • Criança Esperança Programme

  • General History of Africa

    Brazil-Africa: Crossed Histories Programme

  • 2005-2014 - The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

  • End Violence against Women Campaign 

CONTACT IN BRAZIL

PUBLICATIONS

  • From green economies to green societies: UNESCO's commitment to sustainable development in Portuguese

  • The Criança Esperança Programme

  • General History of Africa in Portuguese

    (UNESCO-Cortez edition for sale)

MULTIMEDIA

  • Let's Take Care of the Planet

  • Brésil-Afrique: histoires croisées

  • UNESCO: building peace in the minds of men

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RESOURCES

  • Legal Instruments
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  • Specialized Communities
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  • UNESCO Networks

PAGES

  • African Culture Pedagogical Material
  • General History of Africa Collection
  • Non-Violence Education
  • World Heritage Natural Sites Consolidation in Brazil
  • World Heritage
  • Youth
  • 2001-2010 - International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World
  • 2005-2014 - The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
  • 2010 - International Year of Biodiversity
  • 2010 - International Year for Rapprochement of Cultures
  • 2011 - International Year for People of African Descent

PROJECTS & PROGRAMMES

  • Biodiversity of the Natural World Heritage in Brazil Programme
  • Brazil-Africa: Crossed Histories Project
  • Criança Esperança Programme
  • Man and the Biosphere Programme
  • Open Schools Programme

 

 

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