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Education Summit in Cape Town

7 July 2010 – 16:51

Coinciding with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, South Africa will host an important event that should not go unnoticed: The Global Education Summit. The summit will take place from July 7th to 11th.
The summit objective is to strengthen and reinforce efforts to reach the goal of “Education for All by 2015” as proposed in the [...]

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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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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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