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UNESCO Monitors Progress on "Global Citizenship Education"
August 09, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a study in May showing widespread success in its agenda to insert "sustainable development" and climate education in national curricula around the world, tempered by lagging results in the replacement of lessons on "national citizenship" with its doctrine of "Global Citizenship Education."
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UN Women Seeks "Gender-Responsive" SDG Fulfillment
August 09, 2017
In the lead-up to the UN's High Level Political Forum to review progress on fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Women hosted a program in May on how to achieve "gender-responsive implementation" of the SDGs through the broad concepts of gender equality and women's "empowerment."
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UNESCO Seeks "Gender Sensitive" Arab Media
August 08, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted a training event aimed at teaching journalists in the Arab world how to protect against “gender bias” in reporting and how to use media to help “progress” society in line with the Sustainable Development Goal of “gender equality and women’s empowerment.”
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UNESCO Official Highlights "Cultural" Element in SDGs
August 08, 2017
Jyoti Hosagrahar of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) highlights the expansive nature of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by pointing out that it is the first set of global development commitments to refer to the "safeguarding and promotion of culture" and calls for their implementation to be "culturally-informed."
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UNESCO Trains Arab Youth on SDG Education
August 08, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently hosted a training seminar for young professionals in the Arab world to train them how to incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their school curricula, businesses, and other organizations.