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"Educate A Child": A new hope for 180,000 Iraqi children
UNESCO, the Government of Iraq and the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser organized an event in Baghdad to officially announce the start of the implementation of the “Educate A Child” initiative, a new endeavour which brings new hope for 180.000 out-of-school children in Iraq.
A TVET graduate working in an industrial firm in Iraq © UNESCO Iraq 2006
Entrepreneurship courses start at the TVET centres in Kurdistan
After several months of preparation, UNESCO Office in Iraq and the Ministry of Labour and Social affairs (MOLSA) in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced on Monday 6 May 2013 the start of the courses planned in the framework of “Fighting Youth Unemployment through Education".
Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq, during a live discussion at the event. © UN 2013
Celebrating freedom: Media to empower women in Iraq
As part of this year's World Press Freedom Day, and with the aim to highlight the different aspects of the relationship between media and women's rights in Iraq, the United Nations in Iraq organized a roundtable discussion attended by international and national stakeholders, the first platform of its kind towards empowering women in and through the Iraqi media.
