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2010-06-08
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2010-06-08
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2010-05-28
L’Oréal-UNESCO 2010 Prize for Women and Science - 8th Italian Edition
2009-07-09
ESOF 2010 - Torino ITALY
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23 April 2005:UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day
CAMPAIGN “GENDER EQUALITY AT THE HEART OF DECENT WORK\"
European leaders endorse role of science in Africa
National Competition Women and Physics: the Attainable Profession
One woman’s goals for Tunisian science
Brazil\'s presidential candidates outline science plans
Breastfeeding Saving Six Million Lives Annually
Women’s Concerns and Spaces in the United Nations: What Does History Tell Us?
1 March 2007: Opening of the International Polar Year 2007-8
15 October 2008 - International Day of Rural Women
17 May - World Information Society Day
2006: International Year of Deserts and Desertification
2009 Edition of the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
21st Century Talks: Can the Human Species Domesticate Itself?
22 May: International Day for Biological Diversity - Protect biodiversity in drylands
5 June: World Environment Day ‘Don\'t Desert Drylands!’
8th Annual UN Student Human Rights Conference on \\\'Water as a Human Right\\\'
A Ghastly Disease Feeds Off a Ghastlier Oppression
Academy of sciences for the developing world/TWAS Research Grants Programme
Accepting Nobel Prize, UN nuclear agency chief lays out vision for peace
Access to ICTs: an issue of global equity
African Consultation on Women\'s and Girls\' Rights and HIV/AIDS
African first ladies urge emphasis on women, children in new HIV/AIDS initiatives
African ministers agree reform of science education
African presidents urged to boost science
African Protocol on Rights of Women Enters into Force
Africa\'s land degradation \'can be reversed\'
AGORA, a new online forum for Women in Science
Agriculture and Livelihoods Technical Consultant, Sierra Leone
AIDS, youth and prevention: Fifth dossier of the jeunessearabe.info portal
Analysis: Female education has many benefits
Analysis: World Bank should change focus on women
Annan urges world leaders to take the responsibility for stopping HIV/AIDS
Annan: Safeguards needed for biotechnology
Arab League nations agree to boost science
Arctic cave to safeguard global crop diversity
Argentina: the illusion of equality
Asia \'leads Europe\' in science spending
Asia-Pacific pact members launch clean energy fund
At UN, Rice, other female leaders meet to boost women
AU congress suggests how to boost African science
Audio library promotes classical Arab literature in schools and radio stations in Palestine
Austria presents Presidency research priorities
Bahrain woman elected UN General Assembly president
Ban calls for new UN agency for women
Battle to save Amazon lands campaigners on death list
Beating HIV/AIDS still needs a scientific approach
Bioethics and women’s rights:a meeting of minds
Bird flu mutation sparks concern
Bolivia spreads native languages, but with some criticism
Brazil and Argentina launch joint nanotech centre
Brazil Launches Plan to Counter Rise in HIV Infection Rates among Women
Brazil president foresees new generation of scientists
Brazilian centre aims to attract foreign researchers
Brazil\'s innovation law: lessons for Latin America
Bruxelles:NGOs Challenge Water Privatisation
Building feminist movements and organisations: learning from experience
Building Partnerships for Decent Work: Advancing the Rights of Women Migrant Workers
Call for Action! 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Call for Applications: Professional Development Award (PDA), Regional Office for South Asia (SARO)
Call for Candidates: UNESCO/L’ORÉAL Co-Sponsored Fellowships for Young Women in Life Sciences
Call for nominations for the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education
Call for Nominations: African Women of Distinction
Call for papers - Science Policies Meet Reality
Call for Papers on Women and International Development
CALL FOR PAPERS: Know How Conference 2006 PUEG-UNAM-MEXICO
Call for papers: Role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education
Call for submissions: UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2007
Call for Submissions: Women and Climate Change Spring 2007
Call of proposal \"Developmental Universities:A Changing Role for Universities in the South\"
Can biofuel challenge fossil fuel?
Canada first to ratify the UN cultural agency’s diversity convention
Career opportunities at UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Caught in the Storm: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Women
Chile\'s president pushes progress for women
China and India to collaborate on biomedical research
China to release tougher rules for research ethics
Chinese farmers to get more science training
Chinese science: forging the future
Commentary: Global health at a crossroads
Commentary: Women vie for top political jobs worldwide
Commission publishes call for Descartes Prize nominations
Congolese women face different kind of war
Consultancy Opportunities: The Technical Centre for Rural and Agricultural Cooperation (CTA)
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to Enter into Force on 20 Apr
Creation of a Center to fight HIV/AIDS in Cameroon
Creation of an international network « Water, women and decision-making »
Cultural conflicts snag China effort to reform health care
Desertification is \'economic not environmental\' issue
Developing nations eligible for European funding
Development Around Mediterranean is Eco Risk - UN
DEVELOPMENT-SOUTHERN AFRICA:More Women, Please
Director-General deplores death of two media workers in Lebanon and urges improved safety
Do sports, not drugs: new UN-backed anti-narcotics programme targets youth
Dramatic drop in HIV rates in southern India
Drug tactic cuts childhood malaria by 86 per cent
EAA and UNESCO to co-operate for the benefit of young people in Europe
Ecosystem assessment wins top environment award
Education still beyond reach for many Indian girls
Efficiency could answer the energy crisis
Egypt designates a \'decade of science\'
Equality, Development and Peace Means Ending Violence against Women
Eritrea moves toward eradication of genital mutilation
Establishment of a Tsunami warning system for the Caribbean
EuroMAB Austria 2005- Meeting of EuroMAB Biosphere Reserve Coordinators
Europe seeks African partners for water research
European Group on Ethics report assesses past work and looks to the future
European platform of women scientists - network event
Ex-political prisoner elected Chile\'s first female president
Expert Meeting on Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment
Female leaders urge UN to boost women in leadership
Filipino girls languish in brothels
Finding solutions for a better world; Mondialogo Engineering Award
First ARAB NETWORK FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Food Security in Practice: Using Gender Research in Development
Forecast: 2007 to be warmest year on record
Fostering partnerships between Africa and Eurasia ICT training professionals
Freed boys highlight India\'s child labor
From dawn to dusk, the daily struggle of Africa\'s women
From water wars to cooperation: a story the world should hear more about
Fund to boost agriculture research in Africa and Asia
Funding African science – an invitation for ideas
G8 announces $60 billion Africa aid package
G8 needs more \'joined-up\' thinking on science
G8 reaches deal for world’s poor
G8 \'should help diaspora boost home science\'
Gates grants to target parasitic diseases in developing world
Gender and tolerance on agenda of World Congress of Journalists
Gender bias \'increases poverty\'
Gender equality - an issue of democracy
Gender imbalance \'threatens social stability\'
General Assembly opens with first Muslim woman at helm
Genital mutilation loses favor in parts of Africa
Getting the Word Out: Boosting Science Reporting in Africa and the Middle East
Girls and science: a training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers
Girls and science: a training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers
Global action vital against chronic diseases that kill millions annually - UN report
Global computer grid links far-flung African scientists
Global influenza meeting opens
Global study shows marine life in dire straits
Greenstone finalist of Stockholm Challenge Award
Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize awarded posthumously to Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya
Handheld water filter offering hope to thirsty world
Health experts: Bird flu distracting attention from other diseases
Health officials fight rumors, disease in developing world
Healthcare workers show higher levels of latent TB
Highest ranking African woman in the UN system
HIV rates fall in parts of Africa and Caribbean
HIV/AIDS drug trials to start in Africa
Human bird flu spreads in Turkey
Hunger slows progress towards Millennium Development Goals
IAS-STS fellowship programme 2007-2008
IDRC Supports Networks of Centres of Excellence Program
IDRC–Nature Science Journalism Award Worth up to CA$60 000
IHP launches the Global Network of Water Anthropology
In Africa, tools to fight meningitis are sharpened
In Africa, women are vanguard of progress
In Gaza, more Palestinian women speak up
In Liberia, all-women UN peace unit inspires locals
In Mali, microfinance helps women start anew
In Uganda, circumcision grows in popularity as HIV protection
India: New law helps abused women
Injustice lingers in Tunisia for women
Intangible heritage: a tangible boost
Interactive Forum on Science Education for Girls and Women
International children’s art competition ‘we can end poverty’
International Forum on Remittances 2005 - 30th June 2005
International Foundation for Science Announces Call for Research Grants
International group to raise vaccine funds through bonds
International Institute of Woman Engineering Scholarships
International Literacy Day, 8 September 2006
International Mother Language Day 2005
International Training Course:Gender, Development and Participatory Governance (GDPG)
Israeli and Palestinian Women Leaders Call for a Return to Peace Negotiations
Jane Goodall to receive UNESCO’s 60th anniversary medal
Japan struggles to save endangered gray whales
Job Vacancy: Network Director The African Malaria Network Trust
Jobs: 3 gender research posts with BRIDGE at the Institute of Development Studies, UK
Journalist training for women in preparation of June 2006 referendum in Mauritania
KENYA: Male participation crucial to reducing gender violence and HIV
Knowledge, Power and Dissent - new UNESCO publication
Kyoto Protocol, concerning the emissions of gases, came into force
Launch of joint UN–Civil Society partnership against sexual violence in conflict and crisis settings
Launch of new cycle of UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Fellowships for young researchers
Launch of UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2007
Launch of UNRISD Report on Gender Equality
Learning to listen: technology and poor communities
Lebanon announces US$33 million science plan
Liberia\'s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf works hard to restore hope
Link found between mother\'s malaria and child\'s HIV
Louise Arbour \"appalled\" by sexual violence
L’Oréal-UNESCO 2010 Prize for Women and Science - 8th Italian Edition
L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science. Laureates 2006
Many tsunami children feel hopeful about future, according to new UN survey
Marine reserves \'good\' for reefs
Media Education Kit published by UNESCO
Migiro: Gender issues plague the world
Milan, Italy: The Century of Development?,
Mobile cinema brings entertainment and education to Niger’s desert dwellers
Mondialogo Engineering Award: Finding solutions for a better world
Motivating for Skills Development: A Campaign Package
Mozambican government endorses the CMC model in new science and technology strategy
Mozambique radio targets taboo subject matter
New ethics guidelines for China\'s researchers
New Grants Addressing Links between Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS
New online technology transfer resource
New PSA: ‘Let’s End Violence against Women’
New publication on ‘New Technologies for Literacy and Adult Education’
New Publication: The Southern Africa Media Diversity Journal
New UN study highlights women’s role in restoring drylands
New Virtual Network Unites Women in Politics Around the Globe
New WHO head calls urgent meeting to consider wiping out polio
Nigeria reports rising numbers of polio cases despite immunisation
Nigeria: Female students face culture of harassment
Nigerian Science and Technology Education Funds
Nobel winner takes aim at profit-driven globalization
Number of child labourers worldwide dips but challenges remain: UN agency
On Migrants Day, Annan calls for human rights protection for itinerant labour
Out-of-school youths produce digital content on health
Pakistan: Girls\' schools under attack
Pakistani girls\' schools in radicals\' sights
Pandemic flu: fighting an enemy that is yet to exist
Polio — an impossible disease to beat?
Politkovskaya Had One Aim: To Tell the Truth
Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network Call for Proposal
Pregnancy dangers abound in Africa
Publication of the 3rd annual Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals
Regional Wokshop on \"The Role of Education and Training in Sustainable Development\"
Research hurdles delay access to HIV prevention
Research: Creative play can boost impoverished children
Researchers: Get an education, live longer
REYKJAVIK, Encore Strike on Wage Disparities 30 Years On
Rolling out long-life mosquito nets: Africa\'s challenge
RPT-Indonesia bars doctors from female genital cutting
Rwanda: when women set the example
Scholars urge ban on female circumcision
Science and health: lessons from Brazil
Science needs effective democracy to thrive
Scientist: Half of world\'s species in danger of extinction
Scientists call South Africa\'s AIDS policies immoral, demand firing of health minister
Scientists to create online encyclopedia of all known species
Scientists with a nose for fighting mosquitoes
Scientist\'s embryo cloning faked
Sewing courses put power in hands of Pakistani women
Social health insurance in developing countries: breaking the poverty - health care link
South Africa announces ‘visionary’ science budget
South African scientists alter virus to fight hepatitis B
Space branch of Chinese Science Academy joins UNESCO’s World Heritage Preservation
Spain to Give 3 Million Euro to UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Stepping up to the flu vaccine challenge
Study on women journalists in the Maghreb now on-line
Study: Anti-bleeding pill could save thousands of lives in developing nations
Study: Breast milk best defense against HIV/AIDS transmission
Study: World\'s education goal needs more commitment
Sustainable job growth is key to poverty reduction in Africa: UN report
Tanzanian Woman Is Chosen for U.N.’s 2nd Highest Post
Teenagers speak up at UN meeting on girls\' rights
Ten years to develop centres of excellence in Africa
The CGIAR Gender & Diversity’s Global Database of Women Scientists and Professionals
The dangers of being pregnant and poor
The International Day for Biological Diversity
22 May 2005
The International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO celebrates its 30th anniversary
The latest threat to the world\'s climate?
The perils of being a baby in Africa
The Spirit of Bali –using new and traditional communication technologies to build peace
Time to Deliver for Women and Girls
Towards a declaration on universal norms on bioethics
Trafficking dangers grow for Chinese women, children
Tree bark molecule may combat malaria
Tsunami early warning system for the Mediterranean and Northeast Atlantic launched in Rome
Tunisia to host African online academy
Turner urges major shift to renewable energies
Turning the Tide: The Next Wave of Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Two Middle East Openings at the University of Edinburgh
Two more candidates, including first woman, join race to succeed Kofi Annan
UN agencies lament rape not treated as crime
UN Assembly calls for progress in trade policy to aid development
UN bird flu coordinator stresses need for countries to plan for pandemic
UN fund to combat human trafficking
UN HELPS BRIDGE THE WORLD’S ‘SCIENTIFIC CAPITAL GAP’ WITH MORE ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY WORK
UN hosts conference aimed at using information technology to boost development
UN hosts conference aimed at using information technology to boost development
UN launches International Year of Deserts and Desertification
UN looks to expand climate change fight
UN meeting to boost girls\' rights begins
UN official says Sudan should adhere to women’s anti-discrimination treaty
UN youth meeting wraps with noble goals
UN-GAID: just another acronym?
UN: Women Activists Learn to Follow the Money
UNESCO 60th Anniversary Symposium on UNESCO’s History
UNESCO and BBC join forces to distribute science programmes in developing nations
UNESCO and Microsoft inaugurate community technology learning centre in Lebanon
UNESCO celebrates First World Information Society Day
UNESCO Chair « Women, science and development in Africa », Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
UNESCO chief hails first test of new tsunami warning system
UNESCO Director-General condemns campaign of violence against Iraqi academics
UNESCO Director-General condemns killing of two Tamil newspaper employees in Jaffna
UNESCO Director-General condemns the murders of seven journalists and media works in Iraq
UNESCO Fellowships Programme in Support of Priority Programme Areas
UNESCO Guidelines on Language and Content in HIV-and AIDS-Related Materials
UNESCO hands out a practical guide to help young people understand AIDS and means for its prevention
UNESCO has given bioethics a human face
UNESCO ICT Competency Standards for Teachers
UNESCO Involvement for Women in Higher Education
UNESCO Italy 2010 Week of Education for Sustainable Development: Mobility
UNESCO launches this year\'s \"Women Make the News\" initative
UNESCO needs a more strategic approach to science
UNESCO prepares next generation of teachers through ICT
UNESCO publishes handbook on gender, conflict and journalism
UNESCO puts ethics within everyone\'s reach
UNESCO releases new R&D statistics
UNESCO science \'not good enough\', says review
UNESCO sets guidelines to protect quality of higher education for foreigners
UNESCO supports gender approach for media professionals during elections in DRC
UNESCO supports MTV’s first multi-platform film competition on HIV and AIDS prevention
UNESCO-L’OREAL\'s 2006 “Week for Women”
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize 2006 awarded to Lebanese journalist May Chidiac
UNESCO: New publication on young people and harmful media content
UNESCO: Victoria Falls\' heritage status at risk
UNFPA study shows community-based interventions can stop violence against women
UNICEF official: HIV/AIDS contributes to Zimbabwe\'s orphan crisis
UNICEF: Children take huge AIDS toll around world
UNIFEM Announces Grants to End Violence against Women
UNIFEM Congratulates New Liberian President and Pledges US$500,000 to Support Gender Ministry
UNIFEM Launches Database to Track Violence against Women in Afghanistan
UNIFEM Regional Director for Africa decries HIV/AIDS policies
United Nations Climate Change Conference agrees on future critical steps to tackle climate change
United Nations Climate Change Conference concluded with decisions to support developing countries
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) launches new website
UNITED NATIONS, Foreign Aid Hike Too Little, Too Late for MDGs
UN\'s first women-only peacekeeping unit prepares for Liberia
US$100 million fund for clean energy in the South
US$30m \\\'millennium science initiative\\\' for Uganda
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: Chief, Gender and Development Section, P-5 ,The United Nations
Vacancy: EUROCORES Programme Coordinator – Cognitive Sciences (Humanities Unit)
Vacant: Education Specialist (Higher Education and Policy Development)
Vaccines can fight South\'s top fatal cancer in women
Venezuelan companies become science investors
Violence plagues women around the world, study warns
Water Alert! A new interactive game developed by UNICEF
Welcome to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development!
WEST AFRICA: Child deaths from HIV/AIDS to keep growing
What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media
WHO seeks more support for flu vaccine development
WHO to promote DDT in fight against malaria
Women at the Centre of Somalia\\\\\\\'s Post-Conflict Joint Needs Assessment
Women contributing to developpment: Sixth dossier of jeunessearabe.info portal
Women from Coalition 1325 Network in Azerbaijan Elected to High-Level Posts
Women in Science and Technology – the business perspective
Women in Science Awards Africa
Women in Science Awards Worldwide
Women in Science: The Missing Links
Women with fistula must work through rejection, loss
Women, Islam, and the New Iraq
Women\'s Gains in Sciences at MIT Have Stalled, New Report Finds
Women’s economic security declines in former Soviet and European states – UN study
Workshop for women journalists in Mauritania starts today
World bank Group New President
World Bank pledges up to US$500 million to fight bird flu in poor countries
World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2006
World day to Combat Desertification and Drought
World Environment Day 2010 - 5th June
World Food Day 2006 targets public and private investment
World losing fight against global hunger, FAO warns
World marks International Women\'s Day
World Press Freedom Day 2006 - 3 May
World Press Freedom Day 2006 to focus on media, development and poverty eradication
World Refugee Day, Keeping the Flame of Hope Alive
World Science Day for Peace and Development
World urged to do more on climate change
Worldwide network of women philosophers
WTO rules against EU on biotech food issue
Xiaohua Zhu Awarded the 2005 ICTP Prize
Yeast \'factories\' could produce key malaria drug
Young women speak out on gender issues
Youth integration: breaking down language barriers
\"Freedom and Innovation\" at the II Open Source World Conference
\"Good news\" about circumcision and AIDS
\'Free\' access to research should not be limited
‘AID EFFECTIVENESS’ WILL FALL SHORT UNLESS GREATER ATTENTION PAID TO GENDER EQUALITY
‘Running the Sahara’: A race to confront the world water crisis
