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Angela Camargo: exploring animal-plant interactions in Latin America

Call for papers: The contribution of UNESCO sites to fire management in the face of climate change emergency

February 1, 2022

UNESCO cities mobilize against COVID-19

Over 50000 doctors from public hospitals in Beijing Peoples Repof China offer since January 2020 free consultations related to coronavirus on WeDoctor a private medical care platform An outdoor digital advertisement about social distancing during the COVID19 outbreak in Chicago USA In Rome Italy the international cinema festival Alice nella città launched the Cinema da casa initiative projecting movies on buildings so people could watch from home

January 18, 2022

New Zealand, India, Ecuador and Colombia enhance their tsunami readiness

With sea level rise increasing the risk posed by tsunamis and other marine hazards countries around the globe are taking steps to protect their populations These efforts are coordinated through UNESCOs Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission IOCUNESCO

January 18, 2022

Integrating memories of culture, peace and conflict in Colombia

After 60 years of armed conflict how can former combatants be integrated into peaceful societies

January 14, 2022

Director-General condemns killing of journalist Marcos Efraín Montalvo Escobar in Colombia

September 28, 2021

Advance litigation on journalists’ defence before the Inter-American System of Human Rights

Interview with Jonathan Bock Ruiz Executive Director Fundacìon para la Libertad de Prensa FLIP Colombia

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UNESCO supports Beni Biological Station Biosphere Reserve, Bolivia, to confront a social, environmental and health emergency

The biosphere reserve together with indigenous community members medics volunteers and community brigades built capacity in the management and prevention of fires prepared community monitoring plans and carried out health checks in indigenous communities throughout the site

November 20, 2020

Colombia - 100 years of Architecture - Photography

The Biblioteca Publica Piloto de Medellin para America Latina Medellin Pilot Public Library for Latin America was created in 1952 by UNESCO and the Colombian Government Its character is strongly patrimonial

September 9, 2020

Director-General urges investigation into killing of community radio journalist Abelardo Liz in Colombia

August 19, 2020

Significant efforts by Colombia ensure that nearly 200,000 Venezuelan children and youth have access to the educational system

UNESCOs national report with a focus on Colombia highlights their efforts to serve the Venezuelan population in their territory Of 460000 children under 18 with school needs over 198000 are already enrolled in the educational system most of them in primary and secondary education 79 However around 260000 still remain outside the educational system The report highlights that the educational response for this emergency requires greater financial and technical support as well as for national initiatives and development plans that strengthen the educational system and provide opportunities for displaced persons and host communities The Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean OREALCUNESCO Santiago released a national report focused on Colombia addressing the main challenges and transformative actions in the educational response to the mixed migration flow of 1400000 Venezuelans in that country The report The right to education under pressure Main challenges and transformative actions in the educational response to the mixed migratory flow of the Venezuelan population in Colombia in Spanish El derecho a la educación bajo presión Principales desafíos y acciones transformadoras en la respuesta educativa al flujo migratorio mixto de población venezolana en Colombia was prepared in collaboration with the Norwegian Council for Refugees NRC and analyzes the multiple needs problems and obstacles that boys and girls in Venezuela face to realize their full right to education The report is the product of an exhaustive documentary analysis from secondary sources on educational responses directed at the Venezuelan population in Colombia and has written aiming to contribute to evidencebased decisionmaking The document details the methodology used for its elaboration and develops an educational evaluation framework for contexts of mixed mass displacement This framework allows to systematize the state of the educational response including different fundamental dimensions for guaranteeing the right to education in contexts of emergency or prolonged crisis among which are access adaptability of the response and accountability Addressing these dimensions allows establishing the populations education and learning needs considering the analysis of secondary sources questionnaires addressed to the national teams of different institutions and participatory workshops with officials from the Ministry of National Education experts from the United Nations and civil society