[NLA] Launching -International Literacy Decade

[Winston Lawrence]

Hi all: The United Nations is launching International Literacy Decade -
Education for All-2003-2012   on Thursday February 13, 2003 at UN
Headquarters, New York. Time of the event 10am to 1.30pm.  The Literacy
Assistance Center is mobilizing teachers, students and the entire literacy
community to attend the event.
The Director General of Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura will be one of the
featured speakers.  Other speakers will include a teacher and a learner.
This is a significant event occurring at a time when the US is about to
rejoin Unesco. It is also coming after several important international
conferences that pushed literacy to the top of United Nations agenda. Some
of these conferences included Education for All, Jomtien , Thailand 1990;
World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen 1995, (CONFINTEA V) Fifth
International Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg, 1997 and World
Education Forum, Dakar, 2000. The thrust for this decade has been in the
making a long time.
Over the next ten years the literacy community will have an opportunity to
focus on particular themes. such as
2003 - 2004    Literacy and gender
2005 - 2006    Literacy and poverty
2007 - 2008    Literacy and health
2009 - 2010    Literacy and sustainable development
2011 - 2012    Literacy and peace 
We hope that the literacy community can utilize the opportunities afforded
by this period to highlight the importance of literacy and  and seek full
and appropriate funding for literacy programs. Thanks.

Dr Winston Lawrence
Coordinatoor , Adult Literacy Services
Literacy Assistance Center
New York, New York, 10004
(212)-803-3326
Fax: (212) 785-3685




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Dr Winston Lawrence
Coordinator of Adult Literacy Services
Literacy Assistance Center
32 Broadway 10th Floor
NY NY 10004
winstonl at lacnyc.org
Tel. (212) 803-3326
Fax:(212) 785-3685
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