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The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020: Water and Climate Change Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) The 2020 edition of the UN World Water Development Report addresses the critical linkages between water and climate change in the context of sustainable development. It also serves as a guide for concrete actions to address these challenges. It outlines actions, supported by examples from across the world, in three areas: first, enabling people to adapt to the impacts of climate change; second, improving the resilience of livelihoods; and, third, reducing the drivers of climate change. Critically, measures to improve the efficiency of water use in agriculture is inextricably linked to multiple SDGs. These include those related to zero hunger (SDG 2), availability and access to water (SDG 6), climate action (SDG 13), and promoting the sustainable use of ecosystem services (SDG 15).The Report concludes that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require substantial changes in the way we use and reuse the Earth’s limited water resources. The experience and expertise needed to achieve this goal are brought together in the Report through UN-Water’s Members and Partners. It will support policy makers in tackling the challenges of climate change by harnessing the wide-ranging opportunities that improved water management offers for adaptation, mitigation and resilience in a rapidly changing world. 
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2024: Water for Prosperity and Peace Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) Developing and maintaining a secure and equitable water future underpins prosperity and peace for all. The relationship also works in the opposite direction, as poverty and inequality, social tensions, and conflict can amplify water insecurity. The 2024 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (UN WWDR) calls attention to the complex and interlinked relationships between water, prosperity and peace, describing how progress in one dimension can have positive, often essential, repercussions on the others. 
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2019: Leaving No One Behind Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) The UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme brings together the work of numerous UN-Water Members and Partners to produce the United Nations World Water Development Report series.The annual editions focus on strategic water issues. UN-Water Members and Partners as well as other experts contribute the latest knowledge on a specific theme.The 2019 Report seeks to inform policy and decision-makers, inside and outside the water community, how improvements in water resources management and access to water supply and sanitation services are essential to overcoming poverty and addressing various other social and economic inequities.In an increasingly globalized world, the impacts of water-related decisions cross borders and affect everyone. Extreme events, environmental degradation, population growth, rapid urbanization, unsustainable and inequitable consumption patterns, conflicts and social unrest, and unprecedented migratory flows are among the interconnected pressures faced by humanity, often hitting those in vulnerable situations the hardest through their impacts on water.Addressing the inequalities faced by disadvantaged groups requires tailored solutions that take account of the day-to-day realities of people and communities in vulnerable situations. Properly designed and adequately implemented policies, efficient and appropriate use of financial resources, as well as evidence-based knowledge on water resources and water-related issues are also vital to eliminating inequalities in access to safe drinking water and sanitation.Titled ‘Leaving No One Behind ’, the report reinforces the commitments made by the UN member states in adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in recognizing the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, both of which are essential for eradicating poverty and for building prosperous, peaceful societies. 
Addressing Hate Speech Through Education: A Guide for Policy-Makers Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO | UN. Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect Hate speech is spreading faster and further than ever before as a result of social media user growth and the rise of populism. Both online and offline, hate speech targets people and groups based on who they are. It has the potential to ignite and fuel violence, spawn violent extremist ideologies, including atrocity crimes and genocide. It discriminates and infringes on individual and collective human rights, and undermines social cohesion. Education can play a central role in countering hateful narratives and the emergence of group-targeted violence. Educational responses to hate speech and all forms of hateful communication include:• Training teachers and learners on the values and practices related to being respectful global and digital citizens;• Adopting pedagogical and whole-school approaches to strengthening social and emotional learning;• Revising and reviewing curricula and educational materials to make them culturally responsive and to include content that identifies hate speech and promotes the right to freedom of expression;This policy guide developed by UNESCO and the United Nations’ Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect explores these educational responses and provides guidance and recommendations to policy-makers on how to strengthen education systems to counter hate speech. 
Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education, 2015 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO | UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) The Recommendation on Adult Learning and Education was adopted at the 38th Session of the UNESCO General Conference in November 2015. The Recommendation supports the Education 2030 Framework for Action, reflects global trends, and will guide the transformation and expansion of equitable learning opportunities for youth and adults. The 2015 Recommendation takes a comprehensive and systematic approach to ALE, defining three key domains of learning and skills: literacy and basic skills; continuing education and vocational skills; as well as liberal, popular and community education and citizenship skills.It also describes five transversal areas of action: policy; governance; financing; participation, inclusion and equity; and quality. These areas of action were already introduced to the international community in the Belém Framework for Action, adopted at CONFINTEA in 2009 as a means of guiding Member States in improving ALE. This integrative and consistent approach to ALE will help Member States to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (Sustainable Development Goal 4). 
Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Award Ceremony for the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2008; UNESCO, 18 September 2008 Year of publication: 2008 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 1999-2009 (Matsuura, K.) This is an address by Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Award Ceremony for the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2008. 
Address by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the First Meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Committee (IAC) on the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014); UNESCO, 12 June 2006 Year of publication: 2006 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 1999-2009 (Matsuura, K.) This address was delivered by Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the first meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Committee (IAC) on the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Seminar on Climate Change and Education at the UN University: Responding to Climate Change Starts with Education; Tokyo, 26 November 2010 Year of publication: 2010 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 1999-2009 (Matsuura, K.) This document is an address of Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the Seminar on Climate Change and Education at the UN University “Responding to Climate Change Starts with Education” in Tokyo, 26 November 2010. She highlighted the importance of climate change education for the sustainable future and underlined the importance of several programme such as Sandwatch and YouthXchange which have been lead by the UNESCO. Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Ministerial Breakfast Meeting: Scaling up Action on Education for Sustainable Development; UNESCO, 8 November 2013 Year of publication: 2013 Author: Irina Bokova Corporate author: UNESCO Director-General, 2009- (Bokova, I.G.) This address was given by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of Ministerial Breakfast Meeting "Scaling up Action on Education for Sustainable Development." 
Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Ethics in Action event, Casina Pio IV in the Vatican Gardens; Vatican, 16 October 2017 Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO. Director-General, 2009-2017 (Bokova, I.G.) This address was delivered by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the Ethics in Action event, Casina Pio IV in the Vatican Gardens; Vatican, on 16 October 2017.