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It was the first time a UN conference had set a broad agenda for a wide range of goals in health, education, nutrition and human rights. The main result of the World Summit was the joint signing of a World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and a Plan of Action comprising a detailed set of child-related human ...
The conference, which lasted for five months, resulted in Austria, France, Great Britain, the Papal States, Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, and Spain signing the slightly amended "draft convention" (itself a combination of the convention and the annexed international sanitary regulations agreed on the first conference). Greece and Turkey abstained. [7]
Promote the equitable distribution of wealth among and between nations and seek to eradicate poverty. Educate their respective communities about the need to care for the earth's environment. Develop and promote reforestation programs. Join with the UN in calling on nations to abolish nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
The World Education Forum is a premium body comprising representatives of major organisations involved in education and related activities across the world. Major organisations involved in the forum include: UNESCO , and the World Bank , and the Asian Development Bank .
It is the publisher of the Scopus indexed journals, the IAFOR Journal of Education and the IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship. Since the holding of its first conference in October 2009, The Asian Conference on Education (ACE2009), [4] under the theme of "Global Problems, Local Solutions", IAFOR has held more than 200 events on three ...
The second world conference on women was held in Copenhagen in 1980. [1] The conference agreed that the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was an important milestone. The Copenhagen conference also acknowledged the gap between rights being secured for women and women's ability to exercise those rights.
The Incheon declaration is a declaration on education adopted at the World Education Forum in Incheon, South Korea on 15 May 2015. [1] It is the logical continuation of the Education For All (EFA) movement and the Millennium Development Goals on Education, [2] and many of its goals were based on a review of progress made since the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar.
The inaugural conference took place in Rapid City, South Dakota. [3] Women of All Red Nations (WARN) championed the health of Native American women, the restoration and security of treaty rights, the elimination of Indian mascots in sports, and the protest against the commercialization of Native American culture.