This training seminar will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, from 3 to 7 August 2020. Its aim will be to train teachers who work in the area of bioethics education at the undergraduate or graduate level. The training will provide teaching experts with methodological tools in bioethics education (deliberative method, problematic methodology, use of cases, problem-based teaching, etc.), and special strategies.

The Argentina National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO and UNESCO are co-organizing a Virtual Regional Consultation for the Latin America and Caribbean Region on the first draft of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

UNESCO Dakar launches a new initiative called "The Voice of the Resilient Women": ten women from West African cultural sector take the floor. This campaign aims to promote and recognize the contribution of these role models to the dynamism of the cultural and creative sectors. This campaign will be broken down into a digital campaign based on a series of ten portraits that will be published between August 4 and 12 on social networks and in online discussions organized on August 3 and 4, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. (GMT / UTC), organized on ZOOM and broadcast live on the UNESCO Dakar Facebook page.. This campaign is part of UNESCO's efforts to promote gender equality in the cultural and creative sector in Africa. Ten women creators will carry the voice of Resilient Women and share their vision and the challenges they face as women, artists and managers in the cultural sector, today challenged by COVID19. This 100% female discussion aims to encourage women in the sector to bring their own advocacy and their own message.These webinars are part of the UNESCO “ResiliArt” movement and the Dakar Office's COVID19 Labs, and launch the “Voice of the Resilient Women” campaign on social media that feature inspiring and powerful portraits of these ten #WeAreYennenga from Mali and Senegal.

Comprometidos is one of the main UNESCO initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean within the framework of the UNESCO operational strategy on youth 2014-2021, specifically Axis 3: Civic engagement, democratic participation and social innovation.  Comprometidos is an initiative that seeks to actively engage youth from Latin America and the Caribbean with the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. It is organized by UNESCO’s Regional Bureau of Science for Latin America and the Caribbean – UNESCO Montevideo, jointly with Ashoka and Socialab since 2015.  

The South Africa and Rwanda National Commissions for UNESCO and UNESCO are co-organizing with the support of the University of Pretoria, the University of Stellenbosh and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) a Virtual Sub-Regional Consultation on the first draft of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Eastern and Southern Africa.

Over half a billion people in India use the Internet today, and this number is expected to register double-digit growth in the next few years. Rising internet usage, together with millions of smartphone users and growing mobile data traffic, sets the context for transformational change in the country. The new generation in India is clearly ‘mobile first’, with 1.16 billion mobile phone subscriptions and more than 13 billion apps being downloaded in 2019 alone.Seeing Through Misinformation: A Framework for Identifying Fake Online News

Within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in October 2019 between UNESCO and the Inter-American Court of Human Human Rights to strengthen the protection of freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and the safety of journalists in the Latin American region and the Caribbean, the Diploma for Journalists on Human Rights was designed.