Building peace in the minds of men and women

39th Session of the General Conference

39th -Photos

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Tuesday 14 November 2017

  • Closure of the 39th Session of the General Conference
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  • Plenary - Reports
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Monday 13 November 2017

  • Investiture ceremony of Audrey Azoulay as Director-General of UNESCO
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  • Plenary - Reports
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Friday 10 November 2017

  • Homage Ceremony to Irina Bokova
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  • Plenary - Tribute to Ms. Irina Bokova
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  • Press Conference
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  • Appointment of the Director-General
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  • Cracking the code: girls’ and women’s education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
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Wednesday 8 November 2017

  • Results of Election of Members of the Executive Board
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  • Setting a New Agenda: Partnerships for Artistic Freedom
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Tuesday 7 November 2017

  • When African cultural heritage meets Korean thousand-year-old paper, Hanji…
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Monday 6 November 2017

  • Awarding ceremony of the Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology
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  • Responding to Cultural Cleansing, Preventing Violent Extremism
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  • General Policy Debate and Reply of the Director-General
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  • Inauguration of the replica of the winged bull of Nimrud
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Saturday 4 November 2017

Friday 3 November 2017

  • Award Ceremony of the 2017 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development
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  • Launch of “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future”: Sweden’s support to UNESCO for expanding comprehensive sexuality education in Africa
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  • What works and what doesn’t in the prevention of violent extremism: discussion on UNESCO’s actions and launch of UNESCO’s latest publications
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  • Future competences and the future of curriculum
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Thursday 2 November 2017

  • CapED ministerial breakfast meeting - The CapED Programme: operationalizing SDG4 at the country level
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  • Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14: The Ocean We Need for the Future We Want
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  • Launch of the UNESCO Strategic Framework for Education in Emergencies in the Arab Region (2018-2021)
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Wednesday 1 November 2017

  • Launch of the 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring Report- Paris
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  • Leader's Forum - Lech Walesa, Former President of the Republic of Poland
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  • General Policy Debate - High-Level Meeting
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  • General Policy Debate
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  • Strengthening accountability in the implementation of SDG4 - Education 2030
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Tuesday 31 October 2017

  • Arrivals of Heads of States
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Monday 30 October 2017

  • Opening ceremony for Room I, and Opening of the 39th Session of the General Conference
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