181 GOVERNMENTS ADOPT FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION AT THE WORLD EDUCATION FORUM
Delegates from 181 countries today adopted a Framework for Action committing their governments to achieve quality basic education for all, with a particular emphasis on girls education and a pledge from donor countries and institutions that "no country seriously committed to basic education will be thwarted in the achievement of this goal by lack of resources." Continue
UNESCO URGES NEW IMPETUS IN FAVOUR OF EDUCATION FOR ALL AT WORLD EDUCATION FORUM
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today urged renewed national and international efforts to meet the challenge of providing education for all in a resounding appeal in favour of "an education that is authentic, accessible to all without exclusion or discrimination, modern and universally affordable" to participants at the first day of the 3-day World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal.
14TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER
On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura called for continued international co-operation to help Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine work to mitigate the effects of the technological disaster. Continue
21ST CENTURY TALKS: IS THE HUMAN SOUL UNDER THREAT?
The psychoanalyst and writer Julia Kristeva, essayist and Canadian television journalist Denise Bombardier and the Brazilian psychiatrist and ethnologist Adalberto Barreto, who works in Brazil's shantytowns, debated sicknesses of the soul, outlook and prevention, at Organization Headquarters on April 18. Continue