Debido a la crisis de la COVID-19, los jóvenes se enfrentan a importantes desafíos: muchos de ellos han perdido sus trabajos y los que estaban desempleados antes de la pandemia, en particular los más desfavorecidos, corren el riesgo de ver alejarse aún más …
Young people have been facing significant challenges as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, many of whom became unemployed and those who were unemployed prior to the pandemic, particularly the most disadvantaged, risk being pushed further away from decent …
Home to around 177,000 inhabitants, the Salpausselkä UNESCO Global Geopark is located in southern Finland, in the southernmost part of the Finnish Lakeland, covering an area of 4,506 km². Around 21% of the geopark is covered by water and over half by …
Meet Ahmad, a high school graduate and young man from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was enrolled in the Al Qasimi Foundation’s Hands on Learning (HOL) programme, which is profiled in the UNESCO report as a good practice to address boys’ disengagement …
Globally only 88 men are enrolled in tertiary education for every 100 women. In 73 countries, fewer boys than girls are enrolled in upper-secondary education, while the opposite is the case in 48 countries. These UNESCO data highlight a global phenomenon: …
À l’échelle mondiale, on ne compte que 88 hommes inscrits dans l’enseignement supérieur pour 100 femmes. Dans 73 pays, les jeunes hommes sont moins nombreux que les jeunes femmes à s’inscrire dans l’enseignement secondaire supérieur, alors que ce n’est le …
The event was organized by Fondazione UniVerde in collaboration with the Italian Institute for Environmental Policy Studies. These organizations support the translation of the World Water Development Report in Italian since 2018. The presentation of the …
Conozca a Ahmad, un joven emiratí graduado de segundo ciclo de secundaria. Ahmad participó en el programa Hand on Learning (HOL) de la Fundación Al Qasimi, presentado en el informe de la UNESCO como una práctica idónea para luchar contra el abandono …
To leave no child behind, UNESCO will publish a global report on boys’ disengagement from education on 7th April. The report shows that more boys are out of school than girls today, and much needs to be done to advance the education for all. Supporting …
The conference is the culmination of 18 months of youth-led research under UNESCO’s “Youth As Researchers on COVID-19” initiative, which has been dedicated to the impact of the pandemic on young people’s well-being, learning, rights, action and use of …
Gabriela Ramos (Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO), Unnur Orradóttir-Ramette (Ambassador of Iceland to France, Permanent Delegate of Iceland to the OECD and UNESCO, Co-Chair of the UNESCO Group of Friends for Gender Equality …
“If I had not enrolled in the functional literacy classes, I would not have been motivated to go back to school”, says Komal, a student aged 15 from the Rajpur Faradawa Municipality in Nepal. Despite great progress made in Nepal over the last 20 years …
With the strong support of the Global Education Coalition – created by UNESCO in 2020 to facilitate distance learning solutions during the pandemic – UNESCO will provide with its partners computer hardware for teachers to support online teaching and …
The twin explosions devastated swathes of the city on 4 August 2020, destroying or damaging 80% of Beirut’s city centre infrastructure, including 280 educational institutions. They keep at least 85,000 students out of school. Just after this tragedy, …
Students from high schools and universities from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States of America participated in-person at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Students also connected online from Argentina, Austria, Egypt, France, Italy …
Youth as Researchers is a global UNESCO flagship initiative in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Child and Family Research at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway and the UNESCO Chair in Community, Leadership, and Youth Development at Penn …
Between 2018 and 2021, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) helped 44 countries to enhance their resilience to climate change, water-related hazards, and water scarcity. Many of the beneficiaries are in Africa, the priority region for …
Deadine for submission: 1 May 2022 UNESCO Global Geoparks, within the International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGGP), are the mechanism that creates international cooperation which engages with their local communities in a bottom up approach in …
Niger and Kenya added their voice in recognizing the global urgency to mainstream ESD into national curricula and pedagogical approaches. H.E. Ambassador Abdou Abarry, Permanent Representative of Niger to the United Nations, underlined that as a member of …
On the margin of the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UNESCO joined the Council of Europe, Italy, Austria, and the UK in organizing an online side event on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, …
