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Tourist site stores: engine for local development
Although the university research works related to tourism, heritage or development frequently are usually rich as far as reflections and proposals, they are very rarely made public. Since you search for new and pertinent information continuously, we have achieved that these works are accessible for you. Created in 2000, this collection aims at facilitating the integration of young graduates and foster the communication and the exchange of information between professionals and students. In association with the delegated Ministry of tourism, two issues are published every year.

Heritage and the handicapped: how to adapt the visits to cultural and natural sites? 30 October - St-Etienne, France
It should be noted that there are very few cultural and natural sites ready to be visited by people in situation of motor, visual, auditory or mental disability. However, the adaptation of the sites and their visits prevails nowadays, as a prescribed obligation but also as a source of widely unexplored creativity. The day will be devoted to the presentation and exchange of: innovating concepts, innovating skills, verified methodologies and specific.
(MITRA) Mission d’Ingénierie Touristique Rhône-Alpes. France. Publicated: 24-10-2007

Working with civil society at the heart of UNESCO Forum
Working with civil society will be the theme of the “International Forum of Civil Society – UNESCO’s Partners” on 25 October, during the 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference (16 October to 3 November). Hubert Védrine, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nitin Desai, President of the Internet Governance Forum and former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs as well as Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman of the Board of Directors of L’Oréal, will give keynote speeches during the meeting.
UNESCO. Media Advisory No. 2007-70. UNESCOPRESS. Publicated: 18-10-2007

UNESCO hosts Youth Forum
More than 200 young people from 132 countries are expected to attend UNESCO Fifth Youth Forum on 12 and 13 October at the Organization’s Headquarters. During the Forum, which is held every two years, the young participants will exchange points of view, share their experiences and, above all, define their common concerns and aspirations and present them to UNESCO’s General Conference.
UNESCO. Media Advisory N°2007-66. UNESCOPRENSA. Publicated: 12-10-2007

“Planet Earth: from Space to Place”:A multimedia exhibition at UNESCO
Films, photographs, emblematic objects and distinctive plants from different regions testifying to the Planet’s diversity will be displayed at UNESCO Headquarters from 16 October to 3 November 2007 throughout the General Conference. The exhibition entitled “Planet Earth: from Space to Place” comes ahead of the International Year of Planet Earth in 2008.
UNESCO. Media Advisory N°2007-67. UNESCOPRESS. Publicated: 12-10-2007

Global spending on education concentrated in just a handful of countries
The education budget of a single country like France, Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom outweighs education spending across the entire sub-Saharan African region, according to a new report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The Global Education Digest 2007* presents the latest education statistics from primary to tertiary levels in more than 200 countries. This edition focuses on the financing of education and provides a series of indicators to compare spending patterns across countries and levels of education.
UNESCO. Press Release N°2007-119. UNESCOPRESS. Publicated: 11-10-2007

17 October 2007. Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
This International Day marks a turning point in many respects. Twenty years ago, on 17 October 1987, thousands of people gathered together on the Human Rights Esplanade, at the Place du Trocadero in Paris, to express through messages and testimonies their determination to overcome the scourge of poverty and their solidarity with its victims. Fifteen years ago, in 1992, the United Nations General Assembly joined that movement by proclaiming 17 October as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
UNESCO. The Organization. Messages. DG/ME/ID/2007/016. Publicated: 10-10-2007

What they say about UNESCO
The international symposium “Sixty Years of UNESCO History” (16-18 November 2005) brought together some 80 speakers on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Organization. Here are a few excerpts: Claude Lévi-Strauss (France); Akira Iriye (Japan); Ibrahima Thioub (Senegal); Emma Rothschild (United Kingdom); Ilya Gaiduk (Russia)...
UNESCO. The Courier. 2007 - number 8. Publicated: 9-10-2007

Water, an obvious priority
Nearly one person out of five in the world has no access to drinking water. Hardly surprising that water is UNESCO’s main priority. To face this challenge, the Organization emphasizes education and increased knowledge about this key resource. Another UNESCO priority issue related to water is preventing and reducing the impact of tsunamis.
UNESCO. The Courier. 2007 - number 8. Publicated: 9-10-2007

Singapore rejoins UNESCO
Singapore has become UNESCO’s 193rd Member State, following the deposition in London today of its instrument of adhesion. This ceremony marks return of Singapore to UNESCO after 22 years absence. The Director-General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura welcomed the return of Singapore as the 193rd member of the Organization. “Universality is UNESCO’s main source of strength. It opens the way for global responses to increasingly complex situations,” he said.
UNESCO. Press Release N°2007-117. UNESCOPRESS. Publicated: 08-10-2007

The École des mine of Paris proposes an international classification of secondary education centers
This new record wants to be different from the one of "Shangai". The Ecole des mines of Paris has launched a new international professional classification of secondary education centers that would be different from the Academic Ranking of World Universities established annually by the university Kilo Tong in Shangai since 2003. In terms of quantity both rankings are already different, the one of The Ecole des mines affects 338 higher education centers, whereas the one of Shangai includes a total of 500 centers.
Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). News. France. Publicated: 4-10-2007

Education and development to take centre stage at 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference (16 October – 3 November)
The 34th session of the General Conference, which every two years brings together the Member States of UNESCO, will open next 16 October in Paris under the chairmanship of Musa Bin Jaafar Bin Hassan (Oman) and will continue till 3 November. Two ministerial round tables – on education and on science – a youth forum and an international civil society forum are on the agenda of the session. Close to 2,000 participants are expected, including numerous ministers and some ten heads of State and government * who will take the floor before representatives of the Organization’s 193 Member States.
UNESCO. Presse Release. N°2007- 64. Publicated: 5-10-2007

Water and Culture Workshop . CLUSTER Newsletter n 8
On 6 and 7 August 2007 the UNESCO Office in Mexico, in collaboration with the Mexican Insitute of water Technology (IMTA), organized the Workshop "Atlas of the Cultures of Water of Latin America and the Caribbean" in the Learning Center of the IMTA in Jiutepec, Morelos.
UNESCO Central America and Mexico. Newsletter CLUSTER nº 8. Publicated: 2-10-2007

Building knowledge societies and climate change at the centre of a thematic debate at UNESCO’s Executive Board
On 2 October 2007, on the occasion of the 177th session of UNESCO’s Executive Board, a thematic debate entitled ‘The Construction of Knowledge Societies and Climate Change’ was organized by the Board’s president, Mr ZHANG Xinsheng. The following honorary guest speakers took part in this thematic debate session: Mr Jean-Louis Borloo, France’s “Ministre d’Etat,” Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development; Mr José Mariano Gago, Portugal’s Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education; Mr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); and Mr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
UNESCO. Office of the Spokeswoman. Flash Info N° 127-2007. Publicated: 03-10-2007

The Director-General pays tribute to the approval of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, has issued a message on the occasion of the approval of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly at its 62nd Session. Mr Matsuura welcomed the General Assembly’s approval of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and declared that it is “a milestone for indigenous peoples and all those who are committed to the protection and promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.” He went on to state that “the Declaration acknowledges the significant place that indigenous cultures occupy in the world’s cultural landscape and their vital contribution to our rich cultural diversity, which constitutes, as the text's preamble reminds us, ‘the common heritage of humankind.’”
UNESCO. Office of the Spokeswoman. Flash Info N° 125-2007. Publicated: 02-10-2007

Creation of the regional Center on urban water management for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Cali (Colombia)
Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, General Director of UNESCO, and Luis Guillermo Angel Correa, Ambassador, permanent Representative of Colombia for UNESCO, signed on September 28 2007, in the Headquarters in Paris, an agreement for the creation in Cali (Colombia) of a regional Center for urban water management for Latin America and the Caribbean which establishes the co-operation framework between UNESCO and the Colombian Government for its operation.
UNESCO. Office of the Spokeswoman. Flash Info N° 124-2007. Publicated: 02-10-2007

Invitation to the European States General for Housing Rights (Brussels, 5-6 Novembre 2007)
A European States General (EGSH) preparatory meeting was held in Bobigny (France) on February 2nd with about sixty people from various countries in attendance. A technical secretariat was set up. This text sets out the confirmed fixtures which will be held at the European parliament in Brussels, on November 5th and 6th, 2007.
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International Alliance of inhabitants. Inhabitants of Europe. Publicated: 28-09-2007

Newsletter - Architecture & Development
Architecture & Development (A&D) which aims for International Solidarity is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 1997 at Paris. A&D also contributes to the creation of a network of expertise and capacity building in several fields of intervention like - the problem of appropriate and environmentally responsive architecture, linking of the urban and rural development, response to the humanitarian and the post-emergency need of disasters and the conservation of our built and cultural heritage.
Architecture & Development (A&D). Newsletter. France. Publicated: 27-09-2007