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...Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will report on UN efforts to improve education in developing countries today at the Science Center...
...baseball game in Osaka, or a Pizza Hut in Moscow, knows instantly that she is not in Kansas. But America may still, if only symbolically, be a model for the world. E Pluribus Unum, after all, is on the dollar bill. As Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the director-general of UNESCO, has said, "America's main role in the new world order is not as a military superpower, but as a multicultural superpower...
...Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry is a huge market with its own momentum," says Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's-rights department. "You have an infernal race between the client and the pimp to expand the boundaries, to find the newest experience possible. Selling a 14-year-old girl has become so commonplace, it is banal...
...Human Rights, antiprostitution groups will propose a controversial update of the United Nations' 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The proposal, to completely ban sex-for-sale -- and not just forced prostitution -- is endorsed by UNESCO. Legalized prostitution, as in the Netherlands and Germany, "is an open door for traffickers," claims Janice Raymond, an activist with the U.S.-based Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Many experts, however, say a hard-line approach is impractical. "Prostitutes should be paid better, protected from abuse and perhaps taken into...
...SHELLING OF THE 7TH CENTURY CITY OF DUBROVNIK BY the Serbian navy during Yugoslavia's fighting last year has given rise to an unusual resolution to be voted upon at the global environmental conference in Rio next month. UNESCO has a list of 358 cultural and historical structures, ranging from the Acropolis, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China to Vatican City, the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal. UNESCO seeks to make war activities "which are intended, or may be expected, to cause long-term or severe damage to the properties" a war crime under the Geneva...