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Sudan's troubled Darfur region to host national school competition with UN help 24 December 2009 - The United Nations is providing logistics, security and equipment to the Sudanese Government for its annual UN hails first female winner of national youth music contest in Liberia21 December 2009 - United Nations officials in Liberia have congratulated 19-year-old Vivian Akoto on becoming the first female to win UN official welcomes European Union approval of Internet copyright treaties14 December 2009 - The head of the United Nations agency tasked with safeguarding intellectual property rights today welcomed the Top UN official stresses need for Internet multilingualism to bridge digital divide 14 December 2009 - Multilingualism must be fostered on the Internet to help bridge the digital divide and the United Nations stands in the Newfound fossils said to clarify dinosaur evolution Dec. 10, 2009 Paleontologists, helped by amateur volunteers, report that they have found a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur fossil, School meals key to feeding and educating most vulnerable children - UN report 24 November 2009 - The introduction of free meal programmes not only ensures children are fed, but are crucial to keeping the
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School lessons to tackle domestic violence
25 November 2009 - Every school pupil in England is to be taught that domestic violence is unacceptable, as part of a new Top UN official stresses academia's role in solving global problems
17 November 2009 - A top United Nations official today called for a new culture of “intellectual social responsibility” to take education Read more. Top UN official stresses academia's role in solving global problems
17 November 2009 - A top United Nations official today called for a new culture of “intellectual social responsibility” to take education UNESCO unveils winners of three prizes for science
5 November 2009 - An Indian professor, a Vietnamese professor, a Tunisian expert in water management and the organization UN expert hails Mongolia for successes in campaign to achieve universal education
15 October 2009 - The new head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Agency (UNESCO) pledged today to work UN expert hails Mongolia for successes in campaign to achieve universal education
9 October 2009 - Mongolia has made great strides towards providing universal education for its children, a United Nations independent expert said toy, New UNESCO chief pledges to promote 'knowledge, tolerance and equal opportunity'
15 October 2009 - The new head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Agency (UNESCO) pledged today to work closely with Member States to promote societies “based on knowledge, UN-backed partnership promises education for millions more African children
15 September 2009 - A United Nations-backed campaign to bring education to millions of children in Africa is expanding to reach millions more after exceeding its initial target by raising more than $50 million. Read more. BENEDICT XVI ENCOURAGES INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY
VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 11, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI has given his support to U.N. efforts to promote literacy, noting that along with hunger, poverty and disease, illiteracy is one of the major obstacles to development. Read more. Laura Bush joins senior UN officials in call for greater efforts to boost global literacy
9 September 2009 - Former United States First Lady Laura Bush has added her voice to a chorus of United Nations officials underscoring the importance of bolstering global efforts... Read more. UN chief calls for greater commitment to boost literacy on International Day
8 September 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community to step up efforts to slash the “staggering” number of people worldwide unable to read and write, in amessage marking International Literacy Day. Read more. Technology and innovation can help expand education for all - UN official
3 September 2009 - Making use of the latest information and communication technology (ICT) and innovation can help countries expand educational opportunities for all in a way that also advances development, a senior United Nations official said today. Read more. UNESCO issues voluntary sex education guidelines to help young people
27 August 2009 - New voluntary sexuality education guidelines have been issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Maasai to digitally record heritage for prosperity thanks to UN-backed scheme
5 August 2009 - The Maasai people of Laikipia in Kenya have received digital recording equipment, marking a milestone in a United Nations-backed pilot-project aimed at helping indigenous communities document and preserve their cultural heritage...
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All-female newspaper among winners of UN literacy awards
3 August 2009 - A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) PRESS CONFERENCE ON LAUNCH OF UNESCO REPORT ON EDUCATION
The number of children starting primary school around the world had increased sharply since 2000, but the poor quality and high cost of schooling, along with high adult illiteracy rates and insufficient aid were undermining chances of achieving education for all by 2015, Buenos Aires chosen by UN cultural agency as World Book Capital for 2011
15 June 2009 - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has chosen Buenos Aires as the 2011 World Book Capital as part of the agency's ongoing efforts to promote literature and reading. Expanding access to copyrighted materials for blind focus of UN-backed meeting
14 July 2009 - Speeding up access to copyright-related material can benefit over 160 million blind or visually impaired people around the world, participants at a United Nations-backed intellectual property gathering have said.
Mapping Media Education Policies in the World
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations - UNESCO European Commission, Grupo Comunicar 2009Visions, Programmes and Challenges ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Knowledge crucial for African development - UN officials
2 July 2009 - With knowledge being an essential element in Africa's development process, a United Nations librarian has called on African governments to help narrow the digital divide. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ State action needed on drug education
Thursday, June 25, 2009 » 09:25am Governments must give more support for frontline anti-drug programs despite a report saying global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are steady or in decline, an expert says. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Everyone must help eliminate cyber hatred, says Secretary-General
16 June 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that parents, the Internet industry and policy makers all have a role to play in eliminating hate speech from cyberspace. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The launch of Face to Faith, a new global education programme
In a world that is opening up at an astonishing speed, schools are recognising the need to equip young people with the skills to contribute to an increasingly global, interdependent society.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UN teams up with cartoon show to teach kids about underwater heritage 4 June 2009 - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has teamed up with a popular animated television show about submarines - “Dive Olly Dive!” - to teach children about the world's underwater cultural heritage.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ World crises also 'opportunities for change,' Ban tells young graduates
28 May 2009 - A time of crises is also a time of challenge and “opportunities for change,” Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon told the graduating class of the United Nations International School (UNIS) today. “You will not be surprised to hear me say that you graduate at a time of great global uncertainty.
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19 May 2009 - A leading arm of the United Nations working to spread the benefits of information technology today announced the launch of the first ever tuition-free online university. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PRESS CONFERENCE ON LAUNCH OF UNESCO REPORT ON EDUCATION
The number of children starting primary school around the world had increased sharply since 2000, but the poor quality and high cost of schooling, along with high adult illiteracy rates and insufficient aid were undermining chances of achieving education for all by 2015, ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 'PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH NEW GLOBAL STUDY 'EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK'
The rights of children to education were being denied as a result of targeted violence in many countries around the world, Mark Richmond, of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), said at Headquarters today. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Alliance Partners to Make History
On 7 April 2009, a working breakfast at the Alliance of Civilizations Forum in Istanbul served as the occasion for the launch of a three-year history education pilot project. The Council of Europe , the North-South Center and theResearch Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture(IRCICA) in cooperation with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations organized a pre-Forum event...___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Gruesome group death of young dinos analyzed
A muddy lakeside some 90 million years ago drew a herd of young, birdlike dinosaurs to a terrifying end, say paleontologists who excavated the site in Inner Mongolia's Gobi Desert. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UNICEF opens 200th school in tsunami-battered Indonesian region
20 February 2009 - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports that it has opened its 200th school in Indonesia's Aceh-Nias region, which was devastated by the December 2004 tsunami. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education must be keystone of crisis recovery - UN Assembly President
18 March 2009 - The President of the United Nations General Assembly today urged that children's education be made central to the assistance given to communities devastated by violence and disaster, as he opened a dialogue on the topic in New York. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ African nations need to better utilize emerging technologies, say UN experts18 February 2009 African Governments are failing to take advantage of technological advances that can improve the delivery of services to their citizens despite the growth in mobile and information and communications technology (ICT) across the continent, United Nations experts told a meeting in Ethiopia. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ People walked like us 1.5 million years ago, study finds New found footprints show that early humans walked like us, on anatomically modern feet, 1.5 million years ago, scientists say. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dino crests may have had communication role The strange, bony crests on the heads of the duck- billed dinosaurs known as lambeosaurs may have served for communication both vocal and visual, according to a new study. The structures contain extremely long, convoluted nasal passages that loop up over the tops of their skulls. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Human evolution, radically reappraised Human evolution has been speeding up, a new study contends so much so, that the latest evolutionary changes largely eclipse those that accompanied modern man's origin. The study, alongside a few others on which it builds, amounts to a ground-up reappraisal of traditional accounts of human evolution, which widely assumed that humans had reached a pinnacle of evolution and stopped there. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Study: Communing with nature less and less In an alarming trend, out door activities are on the wane as people around the world spend more leisure time on line or watching TV,
researchers say.They worry that the trend will lead to fatter,unhealthier populations and more environmental destruction, as people lose interest in both nature and its protection. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pollution shrinks fetuses, researchers say Exposure to air pollution significantly reduces fetus size during pregnancy which bodes ill for the affected children's lifelong health, scientists are reporting. Adrian Barnett of Australia's Queensland University of Technology... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Study: Neanderthals had language geneHumans' closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, possessed a key gene variant believed to be related to our ability to speak, researchers have found. The finding shows this mutation arose much earlier than scientists had suspected, and raises at least the possibility that Neanderthals could talk, scientists said. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Woolly-mammoth genome decoded Biologists report that they have for the first time unraveled nearly the whole genetic code of an extinct animal: the woolly mammoth, the iconic giant elephant that roamed the cold northern hemisphere. Past projects have decoded chunks of the DNA of ancient species, such as the cave bears, but not most of the genome, as the researchers in the new study claim to have done. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tit-for-tat: birds found to repay wartime helpWhen it spots a lurking predator, the sparrow- like pied flycatcher reacts in a way common among some birds and mammals. It calls up a mob of its peers to drive the interloper away. But more than a feisty defender, the flycatcher is also a shrewd account-keeper, researchers say: it remembers which neighbors answered its call to arms, and which stayed home and repays each in kind. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Microbes may help fossilize ancient embryos
Bacterial decay was once viewed as the mortal enemy of fossilization. But new research suggests resilient colonies of bacteria, called biofilms, may have actually helped preserve the fossil record's most vulnerable stuff: animal embryos and soft tissues. Scientists have found that bacteria can invade dying embryo cells and form densely packed biofilms in those those cells. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dolphins and the evolution of teaching With fluid, sometimes playful-looking movements, a mother dolphin leads her calf to the seafloor and starts poking around for a meal —the fish hiding in the sand. The youngster seems to watch closely. The scene, captured on video, is one of many cases filmed by researchers of what they describe as dolphins apparently teaching their young. Read more. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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