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UNESCO calls for nominations for ICT in Education awards
UNESCO has announced the call for nominations for the King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education in 2010. It will be awarded for the fifth time on 12 January 2011. more

Call for Wisdom Stories
The Ateneo Philosophy Department with the support of the UNESCO National Commission’s Social and Human Sciences Committee is soliciting for the “Philippine Wisdom Stories for Sustainable Development.” more

High school students participate in Brazil biosphere conference
		Four high school students from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao represented the Philippines in the Let’s Take Care of the Planet Children and Youth International Conference for the Environment in Brazil in June 2010. more

UNESCO NatCom recommends policy agenda for new government
		The Executive Committee (EXECOM) of the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines (NatCom) recently issued policy recommendations for the new administration. The recommendations cover three areas, namely, Environment, Human Resource Development and Culture. more

Bioethics of Traditional Philippine Healing: “Honoring Wellness in its Multicultural Modalities”
		In line with one of the SHS sector’s biennial priorities for 2010-2011, i.e. “addressing global ethical issues,” the SHS Committee in cooperation with the Health Futures Foundation, Inc. more Mother and child in a Blaan Community in Cotabato

Regional forums to be convened on culture of impunity against journalists
		The UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines-Communication Committee has commissioned AIJC to conduct regional forums on the culture of impunity in the killing of Filipino journalists. more

De Rivera attends Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Council for IFAP
		Comm. Timoteo Diaz- De Rivera, Chairperson of the IFAP Philippine National Committee attended the Sixth Meeting of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Council for IFAP held from 29 and 30 March 2010 at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, France. more

FAO launches anti-hunger petition
		Of the around one billion hungry people, 642 million live in Asia and the Pacific, 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 42 in the Near East and North Africa and 15 million people in developed countries. FAO estimates that global agricultural production needs to grow by 70 percent if the estimated 9 billion people that will inhabit the planet in 2050 are to be fed. Support to agriculture in developing countries is set to be on the agenda at next month’s Group of Eight leaders’ summit in Canada. Follow the event on webcast, Press release (all languages) http://www.1billionhungry.org/

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