Education
- Fri May 09 2008
Argentina: training health agents to reduce child mortality
An ambitious new programme for training health agents to help reduce infant mortality in small rural communities and indigenous villages, launched by one of Argentina’s best-known human rights groups, drew many more applicants than the organisers had hoped for.
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Education
/Information and Communication Technologies
- Fri May 02 2008
Copyright and education in Africa: Launch of the ACA2K network
As the global community marks World Intellectual Property Day 2008 (26 April), an eight-country African research network is being launched with a mandate to investigate the relationship between copyright and education in African countries.
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Education
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The world's biggest lesson is taking place on 23 April
As part of the global action week 2008 on education for all, the world's biggest lesson attempts to get officials, decision makers and media back to school, and get the largest number of individuals taking the same lesson at the same time: Quality education to end exclusion.
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Education
- Mon Apr 07 2008
Latin American regional meeting on education in prison
The regional scene of education in prisons, the exchange of experiences between participants, making UN agencies aware and getting them involved, and preparing recommendations for the 6th International Conference on Adult Educaton (CONFINTEA VI), among others, were some of the main goals of the meeting that took place in Brazilia, 27 and 28 March, 2008.
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Education
- Fri Mar 14 2008
Global action week on education for all
The Global Campaign for Education organises Global Action Week that will take place from April 23-29, 2008. The members of the GCE include a broad spectrum of NGOs and trade union organisations active on education issues.
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Education
- Mon Feb 11 2008
Global campaign for education's 3rd World Assembly comes to a close
The Global Campaign for Education's (GCE) Third World Assembly united civil society and campaigners from 85 countries, and 31 international organisations, to reflect on the progress made by the campaign and to determine the campaigns future direction.
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Education
- Fri Jan 04 2008
World Social Forum Mobilization Day: a call for education
As member of the World Social Forum International Council, ICAE - the International Council for Adult Education - calls for action within the framework of the WSF Global Day of Action, on 26th January 2008, by inviting social movements and NGOs working in the education field, to draw the attention of governments, on the fulfilment of the right to education for all as a universal human right.
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Education
- Thu Dec 27 2007
Conference statement and report on the right to education in the context of migration and integration
More than two hundred participants from about fifty countries came together in Bonn from 15 to 16 November 2007 to inform each other and search for ways to cooperate closer in the future in the complex and diverse field of migration and integration through adult education.
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Education
- Fri Nov 23 2007
2nd meeting of the Consultative Group in preparation for CONFINTEA VI
UNESCO's 6th International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) will take place in May 2009 in Brazil. The preparatory process in its second meeting held in Germany, Nov. 21 - 23, 2007 enables a global review of the state of the art of adult education and learning.
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Health
/Education
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Fri Oct 05 2007
New IMF managing director appointment sparks civil society call for change in first 100 days
This week 125 civil society organizations sent a letter to Dominique Strauss-Khan, the incoming International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, calling on him to address IMF policies that undermine developing nations’ ability to increase health and education spending.
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