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A UNICEF club is a student-led grassroots club present at high school and college levels of education, formed for the purpose of promoting the values of the parent organization the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF. The stated goal of the club is "to empower youth with the resources and skills to be effective global citizens" and "to ...
In each community, the local Community Action Program (CAP) was provided by a local non-profit Community Action Agency (CAA), overseen by a board made up—initially—of residents of the target neighborhood or population being served. This gave poor, working class and minority citizens a voice in how they would be served by federal funds aimed ...
The United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) was founded during World War II [4] to build American support for a new international organization designed to sustain the peace once the war was won. It considered itself the direct successor of the League of Nations Association, which was founded in 1923. [5]
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 .
In 2013, resolution 64/86 commends the World Federation of United Nations Associations and its United Nations associations for the valuable contributions they have made, and calls for continued collaboration between the World Federation and the Department of Public Information in support of their complementary objectives".
This gathering also serves as a forum for fostering diversity and solidarity in global higher education. [8] The Administrative Board, comprising the President, Secretary-General, and members from diverse nations, meets annually to implement the General Conference’s decisions, manage the budget, and oversee the Secretariat.
The International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is observed each year on 27 January in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York City with a memorial ceremony on the theme "Remembrance and Beyond", which serves to highlight and connect the two main elements of the Programme – remembering the victims of the Holocaust and helping to ...
Map of the global RCE network. The Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development; abbreviated RCE is a global network of 190 institutional networks acknowledged by the United Nations University (UNU) which focus on the development and practices of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in local regions across the world.