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“Anybody can become a refugee”
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Regional Office for Eastern Africa
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Building Capacity and Raising Awareness for Underwater Cultural Heritage in Africa
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Cat VI – Expert Committee
Workshop on Marine Cultural Heritage and World Heritage sites in East Africa
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Consultative Meeting
Africa Consultation for the revision of the UNESCO 1974 Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace
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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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From commitments to action for nature: UNESCO at the UN Environment Assembly
During the resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA52 in Nairobi Kenya Ms Shamila NairBedouelle Assistant DirectorGeneral for Natural Sciences of UNESCO reaffirmed the Organizations headline commitment at a side event on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from commitments to action for nature on 28 February 2022
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UNESCO Emphasizes a Need for establishing Hospital Ethics Committees in Kenya
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UNESCO and Stakeholders Celebrate Women & Girls in Science
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UNESCO: O3Plus awareness walk in support of students’ physical & mental health
O3Plus  Our Rights Our lives Our Future Walk in support of students physical mental health Thika town Kenya © UNESCOCynthia Meru
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Worlddidac Association meets UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa Team
Worlddidac Association DirectorGeneral Mr Danny Gauch and UNESCO team led by Prof Hubert Gijzen © UNESCOAndrew Mmbaiza
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UNICEF and UNESCO call for concerted action on learning in the COVID era on the International Day of Education 2022
Joint statement from UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Mohamed Fall and UNESCO Regional Director for Eastern Africa Prof Hubert Gijzen
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UNESCO Hosts Dutch Scientists for COVID detection using Honey Bees
A visit at ICIPE in Nairobi Kenya ©ICIPE