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• 11.12.15 Guidelines for Accessible Information in Learning available in 23 languages The Guidelines for Implementing Information Accessibility in Learning (ICT4IAL) are now available in 23 languages providing practical solutions for the preparation and sharing of accessible information for persons with disabilities and their teachers for learning and training purposes. The set of recommendations provide practical information on how to prepare the accessible text, image, audio, video, and media files.

• 10.12.15 Building on WSIS+10: The Knowledge Societies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda On 15 December 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, UNESCO will organize a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10) Review event, at which future action in the implementation and facilitation of its six WSIS Action Lines, towards 2030, will be discussed by several major stakeholders.

• 10.12.15 Director-General condemns murder of blogger Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros in Brazil The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the killing of Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros, a Brazilian blogger, who was shot dead on Friday 13 November in the Brazilian town of Governador Nunes Freire, in the northern state of Maranhão.

• 10.12.15 Learn, play mini-games and test your knowledge on freedom of expression! On the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2015, UNESCO Bangkok Office, in partnership with the Mobile Computing Lab of the Naresuan University in Thailand, launched the Freedom of Expression App, a new mobile game application on freedom of expression based on UNESCO's Freedom of Expression toolkit for students.

• 09.12.15 Philippines harnessing OER for the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers UNESCO working with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), the Philippine Council for Higher Education (CHED) and the UNESCO Southeast Asian Centre for Lifelong learning and Sustainable Development (UNESCO Category 2 Centre - SEA CLLSD) carried out a two-day consultation meeting in Manilla, Philippines, from 28 to 29 October 2015. This national consultation focused on the development of OER-based Teacher Training Materials to support the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT).

• 08.12.15 Director-General condemns killing of cameraman Guido Armando Giovanni Villatoro Ramos in Guatemala The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has condemned the killing of Guido Armando Giovanni Villatoro Ramos, a television cameraman in the city of Chicacao, Guatemala.

• 07.12.15 High-level participants from over 50 countries ready to join in the dialogue on gender equality in media The twin events, International Development and Cooperation Meeting on Gender and Media, and the First General Assembly of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) opened today in Geneva.

• 07.12.15 Taking the Qingdao Declaration forward: Seizing digital opportunities in East Africa to lead education transformation UNESCO held a three-day Colloquium on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Teacher Training in Eastern Africa from 25 to 27 November 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Colloquium defined the principles of the Qingdao Declaration in Eastern Africa, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on Education, and SDG 9 on Innovation. The event brought together 81 representatives from five countries: Kenya, Uganda, Seychelles, Mauritius and Tanzania, as well as IGOs, NGOs, foundations and the private sector in the region.

• 07.12.15 UNESCO's Director General recognized for leadership on right to information Two Finnish organizations honoured Irini Bokova in Helsinki on Friday 4 December at a function held in the newly-renovated Päivälehti Museum of Finland's Helsingen Sanomat newspaper. The citation certificate states that the recognition is granted "to mark the outstanding performance on international level in promotion of the principles of openness, cherished by Anders Chydenius, the initiator of the world's first Freedom of Information Act (1766)".

• 07.12.15 Director-General condemns murder of journalist Dorance Herrera in Colombia The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the killing of Dorance Herrera, a Colombian journalist in the municipality of Caucasia on 23 November.

• 07.12.15 Director-General condemns killing of reporter Hindiya Haji Mohamed in Mogadishu The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the killing of Somali journalist Hindiya Haji Mohamed, in the capital Mogadishu on 3 December.

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