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24th International AIDS Conference
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Montevideo
Regional Bureau for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean Cluster Office for
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Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Paraguay to UNESCO (March 2022)
The DirectorGeneral of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO received on Tuesday 15 March 2022 HE Ms Nancy Ovelar de Gorostiaga Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary who presented her with the letters accrediting her as Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Paraguay to the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO
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All-girl team from the Philippines wins Sustainable Engineering Hackathon on UNESCO’s World Engineering Day
An allgirl team of university students from the Philippines has won a hackathon marking UNESCOs World Engineering for Sustainable Development Day on 4 March Ghia Luwalhati Nicole Elizabeth Tan and Reaner Jacqueline Bool from the WONDERPETS team 1 from Batangas State University in the Philippines used Metal Organic Frameworks which are novel adsorbents to turn recycled plastic bottles into a type of sponge that is extremely porous making it an effective means of removing pollutants from water Better still the sponge can be used again and again
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Paraguay promotes a project to strengthen journalism and access to information
With the support of UNESCOs International Programme for the Development of Communication IPDC the proposal seeks to generate knowledge about access to public information and raise awareness about safety in the practice of journalism as key factors in achieving the 2030 Agenda
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Paraguay progresses in the protection of its underwater cultural heritage
The country passes a national protocol aimed at guiding the interventions on underwater cultural heritage thanks to the technical assistance provided by UNESCO
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Paraguay
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Canada
Confronting the gender gap in environmental education
A global citizen and lifelong learner with a deeprooted passion for the environment and sustainable development Devonne Goad is an education consultant at UNESCO She has been tasked with projectbased policy analysis assessments and evaluations across the region of SouthEast Europe and the Mediterranean She wrote the UNESCO publications Mapping the Mainstreaming of Education for Sustainable Development Across SDG47 A Comparative Analysis of the Mainstreaming of ESD in Cyprus Greece Malta and Turkey and Scoping the Implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in SouthEast Europe Including the Impact of COVID19 forthcoming She contributed to publication The Intersection of gender equality and quality education in four Mediterranean countries a regional situation analysis of the nexus between SDG4 and SDG5 in Cyprus Greece Malta and Turkey Prior to obtaining her Masters degree in Environmental Resource Management she worked in community education projects in South America focusing on climate change and ecology She was also an English as Second Language ESL teacher
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UNESCO and Canada sign grant arrangement to strengthen genocide prevention globally through education and intercultural dialogue
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UNESCO and Canada sign grant arrangement to strengthen genocide prevention globally through education and intercultural dialogue
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Montreal: landscapes and lockdown
The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape at the University of Montreal CUPUM initiated a reflection on the impact of COVID19 on public spaces in Montreal which sought to document the actions implemented during the Montreal lockdown phase from 13 March to 16 May 2020 and certain landscape representations of this urban territory 
Take action against racism and discrimination! Interview with Webster
Aly Ndiaye alias Webster is a veteran of the Quebec hiphop scene Active since 1995 he now travels the world through his concerts writing workshops and conferences Passionate about history the rapper from Limoilou has been particularly interested in slavery and the black presence in Quebec and Canada since the time of New France