Joint Message from Agency Heads on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day 2016 50th anniversary of the 1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers Valuing Teachers, improving their Status 5 October 2016 Every year on World Teacher’s Day we celebrate the limitless contributions made by teachers around the world. Day after day, year in …
Category Archives: International Observances
International Peace Day
IT’S SEPTEMBER 21 AND IT’S INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY! “Let us all work together to help all human beings achieve dignity and equality; to build a greener planet; and to make sure no one is left behind.” — UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 …
September 8 is International Literacy Day
ILD 2016 Poster Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the International Literacy Day, 50th Anniversary 8 September 2016 For fifty years, International Literacy Day has celebrated literacy as an empowering force for women and men and for society as a whole. We have seen great progress since the proclamation …
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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 23 August 2016 In the night of 22 to 23 August 1791, men and women, torn from Africa and sold into slavery, revolted against the slave system to obtain freedom and independence for Haiti, …
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International Youth Day 2016
Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO Young people are not only our future — they are our present. Our planet has never been so young, with 1.8 billion young women and men. They are the most connected, the most outspoken and the most open-minded generation the world has ever seen. “I call upon …
Media Houses Urged To Observe World Press Freedom Day
World Press Freedom Day, or just World Press Day in which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the lead agency is being celebrated on Tuesday May 3, 2016. World Press Day was declared so as to inform the international community that freedom of the press and freedom of expression are fundamental human …
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