Actions for justice
EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010
Education for All (EFA) is focused on the provision of quality basic education to all children, young persons and adults. The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized documents both the progress made and the challenges ahead in five comprehensive chapters.
(© UNESCO 2010)
Internal Displacement: a Global Humanitarian Crisis
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement is a legal document that was written to safeguard the protection of IDPs worldwide. The Guiding Principles have been translated in more than 40 languages so they can be more easily used in different contexts.
(UN Photo/Sophia Paris)
The Urgency of Preserving Biodiversity
Since its inception in 1972, World Environment Day has been observed annually on June 5, in order to raise deeper awareness of the need to protect, preserve and enhance the environment.
International Mother Earth Day
Although Earth Day has been observed on April 22 around the world for many years, it was only last year, in 2009, that the United Nations designated April 22 as International Mother Earth Day (A/RES/63/278).
Promoting Children's Rights
María Jiménez Albarrán won the first prize in EXPRÉSATE, “Express yourself: the rights of children and adolescents”, an Art and Audiovisual Media contest organized by the UN, the Foreign Affairs Secretariat of Mexico, and Save the Children. Maria was invited to the Senate of the Republic (of Mexico), where she was given a special recognition and had lunch with the senators.
Clean Water for a Healthy World
Following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the General Assembly declared 22 March of each year as World Water Day (WWD). The theme of World Water Day 2010 is Clean Water for a Healthy World, and aims to raise awareness of water quality at a political level so that changes in both the quality and quantity of water will be made.
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