UNESCO [to 19 March 2016]
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Selected Press Releases/News

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18 March 2016
With Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Irina Bokova reiterates UNESCO’s commitment to UN Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism

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17 March 2016
At the World Bank, Irina Bokova on enhanced collaboration between humanitarian and development work
On 16 March, Ms Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, took part in a High-Level Private Meeting on Humanitarian and Development Collaboration, jointly chaired by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. During this meeting, principals of UN agencies, multilateral financial institutions, as well as major international non-governmental organizations, explored ways to operationalize Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for global concerted action to “leave no one behind”, stated in his recent report to the World Humanitarian Summit (May 2016), “One Humanity: Shared Responsibility”.

The meeting was an opportunity to exchange views on a new “business model” for humanitarian and development actors to join efforts in reducing need and vulnerability in a durable and sustainable manner, rather than exclusively focusing on meeting short-term humanitarian needs. Participants discussed modalities to bridge the humanitarian-development divide, through strengthened collaboration in data collection and longer-term planning; as well as opportunities to establish new innovative funding mechanisms to support integrated humanitarian-development responses notably to situations of protracted crises and massive forced displacement.

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14 March 2016
Recognizing the strong interaction between ocean health and human health
The interactions between the ocean on one side and human health and well-being on the other are multiple and complex. Until recently the social sciences and the public health communities focused primarily on the negative impacts of the oceans and seas on human health (e.g. weather events and coastal disasters), while the marine biology/marine science communities traditionally focused on the many potential benefits (e.g. healthy foods, novel drugs, etc.) and potentially negative environmental impacts (e.g. red tides, exotic species, etc.) of ocean-human interaction.