Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO: Special Issue 2001-2010 with SHSviews n°27
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SHSviews’ first issue of 2010 has just been published in English, French and Spanish, and will also be available in Russian. Covering the news from January-March 2010, SHSviews 27 is accompanied by a special issue covering the strategy of UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences programme for 2001-2011 and looks back over the main results obtained during the past decade.
In the table of contents of the special issue 2001-2010:
2 / UNESCO’s social and human sciences strategy for 2010-2011
3 / Three questions for… Pierre Sané
5 / The ethical challenges of climate change
9 / Strengthening the social research-policy nexus
10 / Promoting human rights and empowering women
12 / SHS: 10 years of action in pictures
CENTRAL POSTER / The UNESCO network in Social and Human Sciences
In the table of content of SHSviews 27:
- Bioethics Committees networked in Mexico
- The IBC will continue research on human cloning
- Assisting Bioethics Committees: Priority for Africa in 2010
- Towards a Bioethics Committee in Kenya
- Patricio Bernal : “Climate change has become an issue for society”
- 2009 Avicenna Prize awarded to a Chinese specialist in bioethics
- Arab-African migration: talking frankly in Cairo
- Somalia: the “Greater Horn Horizon” offers prospects for ending the crisis
- Poverty and human rights: decision-making tools
- A collection of books to eradicate poverty using a human rights based approach
- Two humanists share the 2009 Madanjeet Singh Prize
- Gala for the Education of Children in Need
- The right to education: handing the floor to young people
- World Philosophy Day 2009: several thousand participants in 35 countries
- First Assembly of the International Network of Women Philosophers
- Advocacy in Indonesia for more inclusive societies
- Relaunch of the African Coalition against Racism
- Latin America fuels the debate
- The European Coalition changes course
- Meeting in Rio for cities with a human face
- Shanghai 2010 : An international exhibition on “Better City, Better Life”
- “Africities” welcomes the MOST Programme
- Argentina at the head of the MOST Programme
- Increase in Funds to Fight against Doping
- Social development: a regional framework for East Africa
- Social development: Third South-Asian Forum of Ministers
- Youth at the heart of the 1st Forum of Ministers of the Caribbean
- Teaching Philosophy: a UNESCO collection to understand regional challenges
- “Knowledge” and “legitimacy” on the front page of the ISSJ
- Preview of Invictus at UNESCO Headquarters
- Towards worldwide monitoring of youth initiatives
- The World Youth Conference in Mexico City
Other events relating to UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Programme in April 2010
- 13-14 April: 1st Projovem Young Exhibition, Brasilia, Brazil.
- 19-20 April: Regional Experts consultation meeting on the advisability of preparing a Declaration of ethical principles in relation to climate change, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 22-23 April: Regional Experts consultation meeting on the advisability of preparing a Declaration of ethical principles in relation to climate change, Yokohama, Japan.
- 26-27 April: Regional Experts consultation meeting on the advisability of preparing a Declaration of ethical principles in relation to climate change, Auckland, New-Zealand.
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