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SUMMARY:International Day of Women and Girls in Science
DESCRIPTION:Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance. Sustain.\n( I.D.E.A.S.)\nBringing Everyone Forward for Sustainable and Equitable Development\nThis year\, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science  (IDWGIS) will focus on the role of Women and Girls and Science as relates to the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) in review at the forthcoming High-Level Political Forum (HLPF)\, namely SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation)\, SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy)\, SDG 9 (industry\, innovation\, and infrastructure)\, SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities) and SDG17 (means of implementation)\, while following up on discussions on water held during from the “Water Unites Us” 7th IDWGIS\, the 2nd High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028\, held in Dushanbe\, and the 2nd UN Ocean Conference and its High-Level Symposium on Water held in Lisbon\, as a contribution for the 2023 UN Water Conference\, and other UN Fora. \nIn doing so the IDWGIS aims to connect the International Community to Women and Girls in Science\, strengthening the ties between science\, policy\, and society for strategies oriented towards the future. The IDWGIS will thus showcase best practices\, strategies\, applied solutions in addressing SDGs challenges and opportunities. It will also include for the first time a science workshop for Blind Girls and a session from the BLIND fellow SCIENTISTS on “Science in Braille: Making Science Accessible”. \n\n\nDid you know?\n\n\n\nWomen are typically given smaller research grants than their male colleagues and\, while they represent 33.3% of all researchers\, only 12% of members of national science academies are women.\nIn cutting edge fields such as artificial intelligence\, only one in five professionals (22%) is a woman.\nDespite a shortage of skills in most of the technological fields driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution\, women still account for only 28% of engineering graduates and 40% of graduates in computer science and informatics.\nFemale researchers tend to have shorter\, less well-paid careers. Their work is underrepresented in high-profile journals and they are often passed over for promotion.\n\n\n\nBackground\nA significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progress towards increasing their participation in higher education\, they are still under-represented in these fields. \nGender equality has always been a core issue for the United Nations. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution not only to economic development of the world\, but to progress across all the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development\, as well. \nOn 14 March 2011\, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted a report at its fifty-fifth session\, with agreed conclusions on access and participation of women and girls in education\, training and science and technology\, and for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work. On 20 December 2013\, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on science\, technology and innovation for development\, in which it recognized that full and equal access to and participation in science\, technology and innovation for women and girls of all ages is imperative for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. \nESG News Editorial TeamThe ESG News Editorial Team is comprised of veteran financial journalists and sustainability analysts dedicated to providing real-time\, objective reporting on global ESG regulations\, climate finance\, and corporate governance. Our desk monitors daily developments from the SEC\, IFRS\, CSRD and international regulatory bodies to ensure our 1M+ readers receive accurate\, data-driven insights into the evolving sustainable investment landscape. Follow the ESG News Editorial Team for expert reporting on global sustainability standards\, ESG disclosures\, and climate policy. Access over 10\,000 investigative reports and real-time updates.
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SUMMARY:International Mother Language Day
DESCRIPTION:Background\nInternational Mother Language Day was proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational\, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in November 1999. The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. The UN General Assembly welcomed the proclamation of the day in its resolution of 2002. \nOn 16 May 2007 the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/61/266 called upon Member States “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world”. By the same resolution\, the General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the International Year of Languages\, to promote unity in diversity and international understanding\, through multilingualism and multiculturalism and named the United Nations Educational\, Scientific and Cultural Organization to serve as the lead agency for the Year. \nToday there is growing awareness that languages play a vital role in development\, in ensuring cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue\, but also in strengthening co-operation and attaining quality education for all\, in building inclusive knowledge societies and preserving cultural heritage\, and in mobilizing political will for applying the benefits of science and technology to sustainable development. \n\nMultilingual education – a necessity to transform education\nGlobally 40 per cent of the population does not have access to an education in a language they speak or understand. But progress is being made in multilingual education with growing understanding of its importance\, particularly in early schooling\, and more commitment to its development in public life. \nInternational Mother Language Day recognizes that languages and multilingualism can advance inclusion\, and the Sustainable Development Goals’ focus on leaving no one behind. UNESCO encourages and promotes multilingual education based on mother tongue or first language. It is a type of education that begins in the language that the learner masters most and then gradually introduces other languages. This approach enables learners whose mother tongue is different from the language of instruction to bridge the gap between home and school\, to discover the school environment in a familiar language\, and thus\, learn better. \nMultilingualism contributes to the development of inclusive societies that allow multiple cultures\, worldviews and knowledge systems to coexist and cross-fertilize. \nThe theme of the 2023 International Mother Language Day\, “Multilingual education – a necessity to transform education” aligns with recommendations made during the Transforming Education Summit\, where an emphasis was also placed on Indigenous people’s education and languages. \nMultilingual education based on mother-tongue facilitates access to and inclusion in learning for population groups that speak non-dominant languages\, languages of minority groups and indigenous languages. \n\nSafeguarding Linguistic Diversity\nLanguages\, with their complex implications for identity\, communication\, social integration\, education and development\, are of strategic importance for people and planet. Yet\, due to globalization processes\, they are increasingly under threat\, or disappearing altogether. When languages fade\, so does the world’s rich tapestry of cultural diversity. Opportunities\, traditions\, memory\, unique modes of thinking and expression — valuable resources for ensuring a better future — are also lost. \nEvery two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage. At least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain\, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world. \nMultilingual and multicultural societies exist through their languages\, which transmit and preserve traditional knowledge and cultures in a sustainable way. \nInternational Mother Language Day is observed every year to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. \nESG News Editorial TeamThe ESG News Editorial Team is comprised of veteran financial journalists and sustainability analysts dedicated to providing real-time\, objective reporting on global ESG regulations\, climate finance\, and corporate governance. Our desk monitors daily developments from the SEC\, IFRS\, CSRD and international regulatory bodies to ensure our 1M+ readers receive accurate\, data-driven insights into the evolving sustainable investment landscape. Follow the ESG News Editorial Team for expert reporting on global sustainability standards\, ESG disclosures\, and climate policy. Access over 10\,000 investigative reports and real-time updates.
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