Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1B0CBP14114; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:12:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:12:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20030210190928.00a6a760@mail.psnyc.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Winston Lawrence <winstonl@lacnyc.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8513] Launching of International Literacy Decade X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Status: O Content-Length: 1859 Lines: 45 Hi all: The United Nations is launching International Literacy Decade - Education for All-2003-2012 on Thursday February 13, 2003 at UN Headquarters, New York. Time of the event 10am to 1.30pm. The Literacy Assistance Center is mobilizing teachers, students and the entire literacy community to attend the event. The Director General of Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura will be one of the featured speakers. Other speakers will include a teacher and a learner. This is a significant event occurring at a time when the US is about to rejoin Unesco. It is also coming after several important international conferences that pushed literacy to the top of United Nations agenda. Some of these conferences included Education for All, Jomtien , Thailand 1990; World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen 1995, (CONFINTEA V) Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg, 1997 and World Education Forum, Dakar, 2000. The thrust for this decade has been in the making a long time. Over the next ten years the literacy community will have an opportunity to focus on particular themes. such as 2003 - 2004 Literacy and gender 2005 - 2006 Literacy and poverty 2007 - 2008 Literacy and health 2009 - 2010 Literacy and sustainable development 2011 - 2012 Literacy and peace We hope that the literacy community can utilize the opportunities afforded by this period to highlight the importance of literacy and and seek full and appropriate funding for literacy programs. Thanks. Dr Winston Lawrence Coordinatoor , Adult Literacy Services Literacy Assistance Center New York, New York, 10004 (212)-803-3326 Fax: (212) 785-3685 -------------------------------- Dr Winston Lawrence Coordinator of Adult Literacy Services Literacy Assistance Center 32 Broadway 10th Floor NY NY 10004 winstonl@lacnyc.org Tel. (212) 803-3326 Fax:(212) 785-3685
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