Objetivos del Milenio

Education: a right of a child

18 December 2009 – 9:30

On November 20, 2009 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Children.  This is a significant day throughout the world,  especially for those institutions and organizations who work daily to improve the future for children.
Unfortunately, however, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child remains a relatively unknown document.  The [...]

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December 10th:
International Human Rights Day

11 December 2009 – 9:13

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called upon all Member Countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on [...]

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Hunger affects more than a thousand million people in the world

19 November 2009 – 10:21

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The World Summit of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) took place in Rome from October 16-18, 2009. The goal of the summit was to reduce world hunger by half by the year 2015; at the present hunger affects more than a thousand million people.
“The silent hunger crisis — [...]

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