[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2475] Fw: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1033] Launching of International Literacy Decade

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From: Winston Lawrence <winstonl@lacnyc.org>
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Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1033] Launching of International Literacy Decade


> 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
> Coordinator , 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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