The third Youth Webinar organized in collaboration with the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth is on its way! Focusing on the futures of education for persons with disabilities, the discussion will feature four inspiring young panelists and examine effective practices and inclusive policies for students with disabilities and neurodivergent learners. It will represent a great opportunity to exchange experiences and identify necessary transformations for education systems in the future.  Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English, French and Spanish, as well as international signing and Kenyan sign language.

To mark the significance of the global contribution of the original Windhoek Declaration and of the World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) in the past three decades, UNESCO Offices in Jakarta, Bangkok and New Delhi are organizing the the Asia Pacific Regional Forum for World Press Freedom Day on Friday, 30 April 2021 at 1PM-3.30PM online via Zoom. UNESCO is convening the Forum with the following objectives:  Raise awareness of the importance of freedom of expression, press freedom, access to information and safety of journalists in Asia and the Pacific region; Generate ideas, information and share good practices regarding the sub-themes of WPFD including media viability, transparency of online platforms, and media and information literacy. 6 speakers, 3 moderators, and 1 rapporteur are participating in this event: Dr. Peter Thompson, Victoria University of Wellington (Te Herenga Waka) Swe Win, Myanmar NOW Seema Mustafa, Editors Guild of India Dr. Minjeong Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Ika Ningtyas, Alliance of Independent Journalists of Indonesia Ray Wang, Thammasat University Amalia Bandiola-Cabusao, Mindanao Times Vicheika Kann, Journalist Ding Jo-Ann, Centre for Independent Journalism Therese San Diego Torres, Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication

The Online Regional Training on the UNESCO 1954 Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflicts and its Protocols  (the Hague Convention) for the Arab States,  will take place online (11:00-13:00, 31 May to 2 June 2021).

UNESCO Bangkok, the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre and the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute are organizing a series of roundtable discussions on the challenges and opportunities facing Indigenous Peoples (IP) and Sustainable Heritage.  The roundtables aim to create dialogue among practitioners, scholars and advocates for IP rights in order to contribute to the existing state of knowledge, policies and practice for Thailand and the Mekong sub-region.

The sixth event of the series on “Climate-resilient Water Management Approaches: Adaptation in an Age of Uncertainty”, hosted by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), together with the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) and the International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), will address the topic of urban water resilience. The two presentations will bring case-studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, regarding the impacts of climate change and hydrological extremes and their consequences to urban water management.