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UNESCO presents in New York 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

  • 19/04/2018
The seventeenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous IssuesUNPFII) is taking place in New York from 16 to 27 April 2018. In this context, UNESCO is presenting the 2019 International Year of Indigenous LanguagesIY2019) as the United Nations leading organization for its implementation. On 21 October 2016 the United Nations General Assembly […]

UNESCO emphasizes the role of linguistic diversity for sustainable development

  • 05/01/2017
UNESCO attended the European Language Diversity Forum, which was organized as one of the affiliated events to the European Capital of Culture 2016 Agenda on 15 and 16 December 2016 in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. More than two hundred participants, including high level policy and decision makers, politicians, representatives of the intergovernmental organizations, experts, academia and […]