UNESCO and Pakistan announced today the launch of the Malala Fund for Girls’ Education at a high-level event held as part of the celebrations for Human Rights Day. At the event – Stand Up for Malala, Girls’ Education is a Right – the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari announced that his country would donate the first $10 million. Opened by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and President Zardari, the occasion was dedicated to 15-year-old Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai, who was … [Read more...]
UNESCO and Pakistan launch Malala Fund for Girls Education
December 11, 2012 by Team Celebration
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UN Inter-Agency Meeting – ‘end impunity for attacks against journalists’
September 9, 2011 by Team Celebration
'end impunity for attacks against journalists' United Nations Inter-Agency meeting on 13 September, 2011 (9 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., Room X) Over the past ten years more than 500 journalists and media workers have been assassinated and an even greater number have been injured whilst exercising their professional duties. The vast majority of these attacks did not concern international war correspondents but journalists working in their home countries, often in times of peace, … [Read more...]
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