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01:00:00:00 UNESCO was founded on 16 November 1945: representatives of 37 countries meet in London to sign UNESCO’s Constitution which comes into force on November 4, 1946 after ratification by 20 signatories.
01:00:52:19 Ellen Wilkinson extract of the Constitution: “…For these reasons, the States Parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined to develop and to increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other’s lives;In consequence whereof they do hereby create the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the purpose of advancing, through the educational and scientific and cultural relations of the peoples of the world,the objectives of international peace and of the common welfare of mankind for which the United Nations Organization was established and which its Charter proclaims.”
01:01:08:10 UNESCO Headquarters
01:01:41:00 EDUCATION
Education for All is the overall theme of the 33rd General Conference of UNESCO
Today, 862 million of the world’s citizens are illiterate.
Moreover, one in five children between the ages of 6 to 11 in developing countries – about 115 million – is not in school, 56% of these are girls.
The international community has pledged to reverse these trends and achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015. The World Education Forum (Dakar 2000)agreed to reach six goals by 2015: expand early childhood care and education,improve access to and complete free schooling of good quality for all children of primary school age, greatly increase learning opportunities for youth and adults, improve adult literacy rates by 50%, eliminate gender disparities in schooling, improve all aspects of education quality.
01:04:32:00 SCIENCE
In the field of science and technology – specifically bioethics – the Organization develops ethical guidelines, standards and legal instruments including the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights adopted in 1997
01:04:50:02 Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB): this network of more than 400 special places for people and nature covers a majority of the world’s land ecosystems. Each biosphere reserve is like a “living laboratory” that tests ways of managing natural resources while fostering economic development.
01:05:22:11 Water is a major priority for UNESCO. International Hydrological Programme aims to provide the scientific knowledge, technical training and policy advice required to manage this precious efficiently, fairly and
environmentally. UNESCO hosts the secretariat of 23 UN partners, which constitute the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP).
01:05:41:20 Renewable Energy Programme: to help developing countries define and implement renewable energy, while raising public awareness of their importance and efficiency.
01:06:24:07 Natural disaster: they include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, tsunamis, floods and drought.
01:06:31:15 UNESCO established a global early warning system for the Indian Ocean similar to those already existing in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific system was established in 1968 under the auspices of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The Indian system, work on which has already begun, is expected to be fully operational by July 2006.
01:07:25:09 IOC is also helping to the Global Ocean Observing System, which will wave together data from special buoys, ships and satellites to better understand the links between ocean currents and climate.
01:07:48:18 Underwater Cultural Heritage: The UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents the response of the international community to the looting and destruction of this heritage
01:07:52:10 CULTURE
01:07:52:16 International safeguarding campaigns and operational projects (launching of the Nubia Campaign in Egypt, Borobudur, Angkor)
01:09:22:07 Mostar Bridge
01:09:45:21 Bagdad Museum
01:10:00:20 Buddhas of Bamiyan
01:14:24:23 World Heritage: UNESCO seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
01:10:49:11 Intangible Heritage: The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage defines the intangible cultural heritage as the practices, representations, expressions, as well as the knowledge and skills, that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognise as part of their cultural heritage.
01:10:58:22 UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity is adopted by the General Conference in 2001.
01:11:27:05 COMMUNICATION
01:11:27:24 Archives: television in rural area
01:11:47:14 UNESCO gives high priority to providing and strengthening communication and information facilities at the level of local communities. UNESCO's International Initiative for Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) promotes community empowerment and addresses the digital divide by combining community broadcasting with the Internet and related technologies.
01:12:40:18 Freedom of Expression and Democracy: UNESCO promotes freedom of expression and freedom of the press as a basic human right, through sensitization and monitoring activities and fosters media independence and pluralism as prerequisites and major factors of democratization by providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments, parliamentarians and other decision-makers.
Kabul Weekly
01:13:13:23 Libraries are essential components of any strategy aimed at improving information access, both for the public at large and for specialised groups. Since its creation, UNESCO has contributed to the reinforcement of these types of services since its creation.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
01:13:54:10 End
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23 Feb 2006 |
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