8th Meeting of the Parties to the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.The main purposes of this meeting are, among others: - to consider the report by the Chairperson of the Committee to the Meeting; - to elect six members of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

This panel discussion will focus on the specific theme of “migrants before they become migrants” drawing on the recent “Museum Manifesto / Migrations,” published by the National Museum of Natural History. This meeting is co-organized with the association Matins du Soleil, which has been working on helping individuals at risk of being exiled in the richest countries, since 2008. It will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, in Room IV, on 3 december 2019. The aim is thus to enrich and scale the approach of helping people to have higher quality of life in their home countries, and to fight against the illusion of the departure and the drama – as well as its political exploitation – experienced by many migrants in loss of economic, social, and cultural references. Humans have always been on the move – by necessity, curiosity, by force or voluntarily. Migration opens up a multitude of opportunities for individuals and countries. It represents access to employment, the ability to develop skills and qualifications, and an improved quality of life. For both the countries of origin and destination, migration is an enabler for improvement, development, as well as openness. However, migration is also characterized by enormous inequalities and significant human rights abuses. Leveraging a scientific, economic, and humanistic approach, and looking beyond the political management of migrants, it is the prevention of this "wild exile" that must be addressed today, as the consequences can often be fatal, and the treatment of migrants uncertain. With the participation of : Evelyne Heyer, general scientific curator at the Musée de l'Homme Hubert Védrine, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sidibe Mahawa Haidara, Head of the National Migration Policy Monitoring Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Malians and African Integration Serge Moati, director and producer of films and television, former image advisor TV of François Mitterrand Florence Boyer, researcher at the Institute for Development Research - URMIS, associate researcher with GERMS - UAM Niamey

The event is a collaborative endeavour between diverse international science programmes operated by UNESCO and it is organised in the context of the UNESCO project “Youth spaces for climate change resilience in the Caribbean”. The overall project seeks to enable youth-led and youth-to-youth interaction, cooperation and engagement on climate change adaptation in the Caribbean. The II UNESCO´s International Science School/III MOST School in Cuba will allow participants to finalise the design of, and launch the Caribbean Youth Network on Climate Change. The event will also give an opportunity for exchanges between the representatives of governments, academia and youth representatives from civil society. Partners who collaborate in the realization of this event    

As part of the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019, a three-day international conference will be organized. An exhibition on language technologies will accompany the 3-day conference to better reflect the message of the conference and help promote indigenous languages and technologies to strengthen knowledge societies. The exhibition will showcase ICT solutions by both public and private partners, with relevance to the theme of the Conference. Website: International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All) .

The African Conference on the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Professionalization of Educators is organized by UNESCO, ILO and the Moroccan Ministry of Education, in partnership with the German Cooperation (BMZ/GIZ), the Moroccan Foundation for the Promotion of Pre-school Education, the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 (TTF), the Regional Center of Quality and Excellence in Education (RCQE) and the Monegasque Cooperation for Development. The Conference is a contribution to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 4.2 on early childhood care and education as well as SDG target 4.c on teachers. As the key lever of quality education, the conference will give special attention to the development and management of ECE personnel. It aims to provide a platform for reaffirming the importance of investing in equitable quality ECE, including teacher development, and for exchanging achievements, challenges and good practices regarding equity and quality of ECE and the professionalization of ECE teachers. Eighteen African countries are invited to participate in the conference.

Within the framework of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, a three-days International Conference will be organized. The event will contribute towards the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all language users to access information and knowledge in languages that are best understood. It also aims to encourage all relevant stakeholders to take concrete measures for the promotion of linguistic diversity, truly multilingual internet and language technologies, with special focus on indigenous languages. The development of Language Technologies (LT) provides opportunities to improve the free flow of ideas by word and image in different languages and should leave no one behind regardless of users’ age, gender, abilities, language or location. All language users should have the right to access and use LT in their own languages. Equipping indigenous language speakers with the necessary tools to benefit from latest digital developments requires the joint-efforts of multiple stakeholders, from indigenous language users themselves, to the public and the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations. Within the framework of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, the three-days International Conference will look at the evolving environment of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in a world where plays an increasingly relevant role in our societies. It also aims to identify recommendations on how to best harness technology to preserve, support and promote languages, including lesser-used ones, as well as to increase and facilitate communication between them. The conference will conclude its work with an outcome document in order to set out the direction for future global actions in the area of language technologies. The major objective of the event is to promote the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all language users to access information and knowledge in languages that are best understood. It also aims to encourage all relevant stakeholders to take concrete measures for the promotion of linguistic diversity, truly multilingual internet and language technologies, with special focus on indigenous languages, in view of existing international normative instruments and international cooperation mechanisms such as the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. LIVE STREAMINGS (Coming soon): 4 December 2019 - CONTEXT. Multilingualism for building knowledge societies 5 December 2019 - ACHIEVEMENTS. Applying language technologies for linguistic diversity and multilingualism 6 December 2019 - CHALLENGES. Addressing the digital divide and multilingualism LINK: LT4All Website

The Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict meets once a year in ordinary session.The 14th meeting of the 1999 Second Protocol Intergovernmental Committee will consider, among other subjects, one request for international assistance, and the Action Plan on promoting the ratification and strengthening the implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols. The Committee is composed of twelve States Parties to the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

The Association of European Journalists invites you to a conference on the threats against journalists and democratic principles in Europe on December 6th. Never in Europe has the profession of journalist been so questioned and so risky: political or financial pressure, discredit, assassination and intimidation or self-censorship, the atmosphere in which they practice their profession is deteriorating. The conference will consist of four discussion workshops on the following topics: 1. Europe is no longer a safe place for journalists 2. Is an informed public debate still possible in the era of misinformation? 3. Women journalists, the main victims of all forms of harassment 4. Audiovisual public service facing populism The conference will take place from 9:00 to 18:00 / UNESCO House, Hall IV / 125 avenue de Suffren / Paris 7th The debates will take place in French and English with simultaneous translation.

The International Task Force on Teachers will convene its 12th International Policy Dialogue Forum on the theme: "The Futures of Teaching". Since the adoption of the SDGs and the Framework for Action of the Education 2030 Agenda, members of the International Task Force on Teachers take advantage of its annual policy dialogue Forum to unpack the meaning and implications of the teacher target and its importance to the other SDG 4 targets, as well as the overall SDGs. The 12th Policy Dialogue Forum will focus on the issues pertaining to the implications of new learning goals for teacher preparation and training, addressing inequalities and diversity, and innovations and their implications for teacher education and training and practices.

In the context of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, an introductory workshop on youth foresight entitled “Laboratories of the New World (Nw&Labs) / Young People Imagine Libreville, a Pacific and Sustainable City, To The Horizon 2050” will take place in Libreville, Gabon, from 9 to 13 December 2019. This workshop is part of the implementation of the research project “Imagining Africa's Futures” (IAF), aiming to carry out in Africa pilot experiments, prototyping tests of “Futures Literacy Laboratories” (FLL), as a tool for the development of public policies. This UNESCO’s initiative is a response to Priority 1 of the United Nations Youth Strategy (2018) and the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11. By “Futures Literacy Laboratories” (FLL), UNESCO intends an innovative research-action methodology that allows people to discover and implement their own ability to use the future for different reasons and in different ways.

UNESCO Almaty jointly with UNODC and Kazakhstani Media Alliance are organizing training workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan.30 participants from law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, journalists from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as the International IT University, the UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communications of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University are going to learn how to improve the relationship between security forces and journalists; how security forces play a vital role in protecting and ensuring an environment conducive to freedom of expression, access to information and other fundamental freedoms. The training is consistent with the goals and priorities defined in the UN Action Plan for the Safety of Journalists and the issue of impunity.