The 9th UNESCO Youth Forum – Young Global Citizens for a Sustainable Planet – took place in Paris, France on the 26th to the 28th October 2015. The forum brought together over 500 young women and men from all over the world to focus on issues related to Climate Change and the post-2015 Sustainable Development agenda to ensure that the voices of future generations remain front and centre of the new development agenda.
Ms France Marquet representative of South Asia Foundation to UNESCO attended the Ceremony of the UNESCO/Juan Bosch Prize for the promotion of Social Sciences research in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO in the presence of Rafael Albuquerque ......
During this conference Ms Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General, signed the petition and handed over to the President of COP21 for the integration of Human Rights and Gender Parity in the Paris Agreement....
Mme France Marquet representative of South Asia Foundation Attended the Global meeting on literacy and sustainable society and the award ceremony of the literacy Prize 2015....
Mme France Marquet, representative of South Asia Foundation to UNESCO, attended the Seminar: "Artists and the Memory of Slavery: Resistance, Creative Freedom and Legacies"
Fourth International Forum of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO on "The Role Of Women In Fighting Poverty"
Mme France Marquet, representative of South Asia Foundation to UNESCO attended the 'Fifth International Forum of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO'.....
wanted to take a moment to say how much I appreciated your recent statement expressing concern over the destruction of cultural heritages in Iraq and Syria, Mali and Afghanistan. Your outstanding and tireless efforts to preserve world’s shared cultural wealth is invaluable. I heard through the news that you referred to the destruction of historic monuments and cultural heritages of religious, education, art .....