In 2020, World Teachers’ Day will celebrate teachers with the theme “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future”. This day provides the occasion to celebrate the teaching profession worldwide, take stock of achievements, and draw attention to the voices of teachers, who are at the heart of efforts to attain the global education target of…
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Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019. The day had been proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference in 2015, following the adoption of the 38 C/Resolution 57 declaring 28 September of every…
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Today we celebrate 35 years of the Vienna Convention and of the global protection of the ozone layer. Thanks to the collaboration between Governments and the work of the industry and the scientists together the ozone layer is now healing and is expected to return to pre-1980 values by mid-century. This shows that collective decisions…
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International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond”, providing an opportunity to reflect on and discuss how innovative and effective pedagogies and teaching methodologies can be used in youth and adult literacy programmes to face the pandemic and beyond. Read the UNESCO article.
