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2019: The International Year of Indigenous Languages (The UNESCO Courier. January-March 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO With the designation of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019), officially launched at UNESCO on 28 January, the international community reaffirms its commitment to supporting indigenous peoples in their efforts to preserve their knowledge and enjoy their rights. Since the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (link is external) by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007, considerable progress has been made in this regard. Nevertheless, indigenous peoples still have a long way to go before they emerge from marginalization and overcome the many obstacles they face. One-third of the world’s people living in extreme poverty belong to indigenous communities, just as in a number of countries, legislation that promotes the rights of indigenous peoples remains incompatible with other laws that deal with issues such as agriculture, land, conservation, forestry, mining and other industries, according to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (link is external), United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Wide Angle section in this issue of the Courier is dedicated to these indigenous peoples. It takes its title from the Chinese proverb: “When you drink water, think of the source”, to remind us that indigenous knowledge, the source of all knowledge, deserve a prominent place in modernity. The issue also marks the celebration of International Mother Language Day (link is external), 21 February. 2019 : Année internationale des langues autochtones Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO À une époque où la tension ne cesse de croître, où les droits de l'homme, la liberté d'expression, la paix et l'avenir de la planète semblent plus que jamais remis en question, le pouvoir de transformation véhiculé par l'éducation revêt une importance cruciale.Avec la désignation de 2019 comme Année internationale des langues autochtones(IYIL2019), lancée officiellement à l’UNESCO le 28 janvier, la communauté internationale réaffirme sa volonté de soutenir les peuples autochtones dans leurs efforts de préserver leurs savoirs et de jouir de leurs droits.Depuis l’adoption de la Déclaration sur les droits des peuples autochtones, par l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies, le 13 septembre 2007, des avancées considérables ont été faites dans ce sens. Il n’en reste pas moins que les peuples autochtones ont encore un long chemin à parcourir avant de sortir de la marginalisation et de surmonter les nombreux obstacles auxquels ils doivent faire face. Un tiers des personnes qui vivent dans l’extrême pauvreté à travers le monde appartiennent à des communautés autochtones, de même que dans un bon nombre de pays, les législations en faveur des peuples autochtones demeurent incompatibles avec d’autres lois qui traitent notamment de l’agriculture, de la terre, de la conservation et des industries forestières ou minières, selon Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones. Le dossier Grand angle de ce numéro du Courrier leur est consacré. Il emprunte son titre au proverbe chinois : « Quand tu bois de l’eau, pense à la source », pour rappeler que les savoirs autochtones, source de tous les savoirs, méritent une place prééminente dans la modernité. Il s’associe également à la célébration de la Journée internationale de la langue maternelle, le 21 février. 
可持续发展教育（ESD）为21世纪建设一个更加美好和更加公平的世界 Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development allows every human being to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. Education for Sustainable Development means including key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning; for example, climate change, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity, poverty reduction, and sustainable consumption. It also requires participatory teaching and learning methods that motivate and empower learners to change their behaviour and take action for sustainable development. Education for Sustainable Development consequently promotes competencies like critical thinking, imagining future scenarios and making decisions in a collaborative way. Education for Sustainable Development requires far-reaching changes in the way education is often practised today. UNESCO is the lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). 
How Does Education About the Holocaust Advance Global Citizenship Education? Year of publication: 2018 Author: E. Doyle Stevick Corporate author: UNESCO Can education about past genocides shape our understanding of how violence occur in today’s world? Can it foster a sense of belonging to a common humanity and empower young people to become active citizens who work globally for peace and human rights? How does learning about such crimes, which profoundly affect the core dignity of human beings, support the objectives of Global Citizenship Education (GCED), a priority of the 2030 Education Agenda?This paper, commissioned by UNESCO, offers an overview of empirical research on teaching and learning about the Holocaust and how such education may impact leaners’ cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural skills and competencies. It provides insights for educators on how effective lessons about the Holocaust can meet some of the key expected outcomes of Global Citizenship Education (GCED), such as critical thinking skills, attitudes of empathy and solidarity, and motivation to take action to prevent human rights abuses. Report on the survey on the implementation of the road map for arts education Year of publication: 2010 Corporate author: UNESCO The Road Map for Arts Education is a reference document that aims to explore the role of arts education in meeting the need for creativity and cultural awareness in the 21st Century, while placing emphasis on the strategies required to introduce or promote arts education in the learning environment. Within this conceptual framework, all UNESCO Member States interested in initiating or developing arts education practices can mould their own national policy guidelines, adapted to their socio-cultural specificities. With the Road Map, UNESCO advocates the essential role of arts education within societies, to create a common ground of understanding for all stakeholders. The development of the Road Map for Arts Education was a lengthy and comprehensive consultation process. The document was first elaborated by a group of experts and UNESCO, then presented at the First World Conference on Arts Education (Lisbon, 2006) and later revised and updated, following recommendations from NGOs and Member States. The Road Map was finally distributed to the UNESCO Member States in November 2007 in English and French and then translated into Spanish and Russian following popular demand. More than a year after this distribution, UNESCO launched a wide-ranging survey in order to assess the implementation of the Road Map in its 193 Member States. Through its National Commissions, the Organization relayed this document to Ministries of both Education and Culture. The aim of this exercise was threefold: to learn whether the Road Map was being applied and to what extent it was influencing policy decisions at national level; to act as a reminder of the importance of the UNESCO reference document and encourage its use; finally, to assess the situation of arts education in the responding countries. Thus, this survey not only acted as a catalyst for the implementation of the Road Map, but also provided precious knowledge on arts education around the world. The Member States’ responses also contributed greatly to the Second World Conference on Arts Education (Seoul, May 2010), inspiring one of its main themes and the topics for a number of workshops. They also encouraged a more integral participation of these States in the conference through preparatory consultations. 
Emploi des jeunes dans la région méditerranéenne: améliorer la prévision des compétences et les systèmes d'EFTP Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: European Union (EU) Emploi des jeunes dans la région méditerranéenne (YEM) est un projet à l’échelle régionale de trois ans initié par l’UNESCO et mis en oeuvre en collaboration avec les États membres sur une période de trois ans (2018-2020). Le projet YEM est financé par l’Union européenne (UE) et vise à améliorer les systèmes de prévision des compétences et à promouvoir l’enseignement et la formation techniques et professionnels (EFTP) pour renforcer l’emploi et l’entrepreneuriat dans la région méditerranéenne. Notre diversité créatrice: rapport de la commission mondiale de la culture et du développement Year of publication: 1996 Corporate author: World Commission on Culture and Development This report is designed to address a diversified audience across the world that ranges from community activists, field workers, artists and scholars to government officials and politicians. We want it to inform the world’s opinion leaders and to guide its policy-makers. We want it to capture the attention of the world’s intellectual and artistic communities, as well as the general public. We aim to have shown them how culture shapes all our thinking, imagining and behaviour. It is the transmission of behaviour as well as a dynamic source for change, creativity, freedom and the awakening of innovative opportunities. For groups and societies, culture is energy, inspiration and empowerment, as well as the knowledge and acknowledgment of diversity: if cultural diversity is ‘behind us, around us and before us”, as Claude L&i-Strauss put it, we must learn how to let it lead not to the clash of cultures, but to their fruitful coexistence and to intercultural harmony. Just as in the tasks of building peace and consolidating democratic values, an indivisible set of goals, so too economic and political rights cannot be realized separately from social and cultural rights. The challenge to humanity is to adopt new ways of thinking, new ways of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society, in short, new ways of living. The challenge is also to promote different paths of development, informed by a recognition of how cultural factors shape the way in which societies conceive their own futures and choose the means to attain these futures. I have for some time been concerned with the “culture of peace”. There is now considerable evidence that neglect of human development has been one of the principal causes of wars and internal armed conflicts, and that these, in turn, retard human development. With government complicity and with the intention of raising export receipts, private businesses continue to sell advanced military technology, nuclear materials and equipment for the production of bacteriological and chemical warfare. The concept of state sovereignty which still prevails today has increasingly come under scrutiny. In the area of peace-keeping, the distinction between external aggression and internal oppression is often unrealistic. The predominant threat to stability are violent conflicts within countries and not between them. There is an urgent need to strengthen international human rights law. Many of the most serious troubles come from within states – either because of ethnic strife or repressive measures by governments. Conditions that lead to tyranny and large-scale violations of human rights at home sooner or later are likely to spill over into a search for enemies abroad. The temptation of repressive states to export internal difficulties is great. Consider the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia after it had used domestic oppression and the persistent refusal - for many years - of the previous South African governments to grant independence to Namibia. An ounce of prevention is better than a ton of punishment. 
Tenir nos engagements en faveur de l'égalité des genres dans l'éducation: Rapport mondial de suivi sur l'éducation, résumé sur l'égalité des genres 2018 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO Le Cadre d’action Éducation 2030, outil qui vise à aider la communauté internationale à atteindre l’ODD 4 sur l’éducation, reconnaît explicitement l’égalité des genres comme principe directeur lié à la réalisation du droit à l’éducation. Il stipule clairement que les filles et les garçons, les femmes et les hommes, doivent bénéficier des mêmes possibilités « dans et par l’éducation ».Dans ce sixième résumé sur l’égalité des genres, qui fait partie d’une série qui a commencé en 2011, l’équipe du Rapport mondial de suivi sur l’éducation reste concentrée sur une large conception de l’égalité des genres, qui va au-delà du simple comptage du nombre de filles et de garçons dans les classes. La première partie du résumé examine les disparités en matière de participation et de compétences, aux postes à responsabilité des secteurs éducatif et politique et dans certains aspects des infrastructures et des programmes scolaires. Elle examine également les questions liées au genre dans le cadre de la formation professionnelle, en explorant le rôle de l’éducation dans trois autres ODD concernant l’agriculture, la santé, et l’eau et l’assainissement.La deuxième partie du résumé analyse les institutions, les lois et les politiques afin d’explorer des manières de déterminer et de faire appliquer le principe de responsabilité pour l’égalité des genres dans l’éducation. 
Thinkpiece on education and conflict Year of publication: 2009 Author: Lynn Davies Corporate author: UNESCO This paper looks first at the learning sites generally (violent schools, schools as a weapon of war, curriculum and textbooks). It then focuses on specific groups in conflict – gender, language, refugees, child soldiers. Thirdly it discusses education policy and donor intervention; and finally talks of the role of research. All these overlap hugely. This is not a prescription for how the Global Monitoring Report should be structured, but identification of themes and lessons learned that seem the most significant. Pensez pièce sur l'éducation et les conflits Year of publication: 2009 Author: Lynn Davies Corporate author: UNESCO Ce document examine d'abord les sites d'apprentissage en général (écoles violentes, les écoles comme une arme de guerre, programmes et manuels). Elle se concentre ensuite sur des groupes spécifiques dans les conflits - le sexe, la langue, les réfugiés, les enfants soldats. Troisièmement, il discute de la politique de l'éducation et de l'intervention des bailleurs de fonds; et, enfin, parle du rôle de la recherche. Tous ces chevauchent énormément. Ce n'est pas une prescription pour la façon dont le rapport Suivi mondial devrait être structuré, mais l'identification des thèmes et des leçons apprises qui semblent les plus importants.