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A new UNCTAD blog entitled “Thinking development: Commentary on ideas, events and policies in the global economy” was launched through the UNCTAD Virtual Institute and the Global Network of Think Tanks.

The IPBS developed between the country and PBC is the latest inclusive strategic planning document including the United Nations, Bretton Woods institutions, civil society, the private sector and donors at the country level.

He remarked that the Framework for Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would eventually lead to the formation of one of the world’s largest regional blocs, which would comprise more than half of the global population.

During this session, the SHS and SC Commissions examined the resolution proposed in document 35 C/COM SC/DR.1 (submitted by: Austria, Belgium, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Congo, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Finland, Iceland, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Samoa, Senegal, Slovenia, Sweden, Tuvalu, Uruguay; co-sponsored by: Barbados, Costa Rica, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Monaco, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, Suriname, and Zambia), requesting the Director-General to strengthen UNESCO’s specialized capacity on climate change, building upon UNESCO’s unique interdisciplinary profile.

The UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, launched during 2002-2003, provides a platform for scholars, policy-makers and experts to interact and engage critically with higher education and research issues, regionally through five Regional Scientific Committees and globally through the Global Scientific Committee, a global think-tank concerned with strategic higher education and knowledge concerns and policies, and through a major annual global event, gathering experts and policy-makers to share and debate specific themes.

Obviously, all trainees, when they participate in this scheme, decide on the basis of all the training programmes which are available, including other types of training like the job search skills which are very popular.

In November 2009, the Foundation organized a seminar in Madrid on the theme “Guidelines for development in the most disadvantaged countries of the Euro-Mediterranean sphere: education, gender equality and rule of law”, with 51 participants from the Middle East, Europe and North Africa (Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary and the Russian Federation), 37 representatives of non-governmental organizations, regional Governments, think tanks, and experts in cooperation for development.

[...] Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Morocco, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Spain, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States of America and Zimbabwe joined the co-sponsors.

Zimbabwe recommitted to relocate [...] [...]

As the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) involves $66.9 billion of public funds and the findings of the Public Opinion Programme of the University of Hong Kong published recently show that 59% of the respondents said they knew 'very little' or 'quite little' about the entire XRL project, indicating that most people do not understand the substance and social impact of the XRL, I now move under paragraph 37A of the FC Procedure to demand that the Government shelve the funding proposals of the XRL and assess the public awareness of the XRL with an opinion poll conducted by an independent organization, and re-submit the funding proposals after having ascertained that the majority of the people of Hong Kong clearly understand the substance of the XRL and its impact on the society.

In line with the IOS Report on Staff Capacity, he stressed the importance of specific qualifications for these posts: A P-1/P-2 specialist in the legal aspects of publishing is indeed necessary to carry out the work on rights, particularly as this is an evolving area involving different types of media.