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The United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO is the focal point in the UK for UNESCO-related policies and activities.
As an independent body, the Commission is the principle adviser to and works closely in partnership with UK government, enabling it to engage UK organisations in education, science, culture and communication & information, towards achieving UNESCO's ideal of promoting the inseparable goals of peace, mutual understanding and equitable and sustainable human development.
The Commission is part of the global community of 195 UNESCO National Commissions, each acting as an essential partner to UNESCO in its respective country. UNESCO is the only member of the United Nations System to have National Commissions performing this role in its Member States. 
"The Commission has an important role in improving UK input into
all aspects of UNESCO policy-making and debate, and
in helping build a more effective UNESCO."
Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Secretary of State for International Development
January 2005
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UK UNITWIN UNESCO Chairs Colloquium
22-23 Jan 2009
EFA Global Monitoring Report Colloquium
Jan 2009
CONFINTEA VI Conference - UK country report
19-22 May 2009
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IN FOCUS
 2009 EFA Global Monitoring Report launched
The 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report – Overcoming Inequality: Why governance matters – warns that ‘unacceptable’ national and global education disparities are undermining efforts to achieve international development goals. The failure of governments across the world to tackle deep and persistent inequalities in education is consigning millions of children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity, according to the report published by UNESCO. (more)
2009 World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition call for applications
The call for applications for the third annual World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition. This year's topic is, “Is the Western media impeding press freedom in those countries that need it most?” (more)
 New UNESCO Chair in African Peace and Conflict Studies established at University of Bradford
The eleventh UNESCO Chair in the UK has been established at the University of Bradford. It joins over 600 UNESCO Chairs established worldwide and is the first ever in African Peace and Conflict Studies. (more)
 UK scientist named 2009 Laureate For Women In Science for Europe
UK scientist Professor Athene Donald FRS has been selected to receive a 2009 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women In Science Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to science. Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is one of only five exceptional female scientists from around the globe to receive an award this year. (more)
 Restored version of The Battle of the Somme releasedThis November, a digitally restored version of The Battle of the Somme (1916) will be released on DVD and receive its UK television premiere. In 2005 this film’s universal significance was recognised when it became the first British document ever to be inscribed to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. (more)
 Dundee school selected for International UNESCO Symposium in BeijingGrove
Academy , Dundee has been selected to attend the UNESCO Mondialogo International Symposium in
Beijing , 25-28 September 2008. Grove Academy was one of over 2,300 teams from all over the world that registered for the 2007/2008 Mondialogo School Contest. (more)
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