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• 15.04.16 YouthMobile in Senegal: UNESCO Dakar commits to promoting young girls in the Mobile App Development Sector "Since 2012, our ambition to encourage young girls and women in the field of information and communication technologies has produced very successful results. They include: the implementation of the project "Gender in ICTs" to reduce the gender digital divide, the commitment and heightened motivation of girls to pursue careers in the ICTs sector, the creation of mobile applications by and for women to solve socio-economic challenges, and the integration of gender issues into strategies, policies, programs, projects and budgets of the ICT sector" highlighted Madame Bitilokho Ndiaye, coordinator of the gender unit at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Senegal, during the opening ceremony of the activities planned for the month of April between UNESCO, the Ministry, Sonatel, and Googlein the framework of the promotion of young girls in ICTs and the UNESCO' YouthMobile Initiative.

• 13.04.16 YouthMobile training-of-trainers initiative launched in Namibia The UNESCO Windhoek Office launched a ten-day training-of-trainers (ToT) in mobile application development, in partnership with the Ministry of Sport, Youth and National Service (MSYNS) and Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) through its division, the Namibia Business Innovation Institute (NBII). The training is organised within the framework of the UNESCO YouthMobile initiative aimed at equipping young people with skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

• 12.04.16 Freedom of expression, access to public information and the safety of journalists will be the theme of this years Latin American Judicial Summit On the 11th and 12th April 2016, UNESCO and its partners will hold two important activities convening Ibero-American judicial operator and judicial schools and institutions from Latin America and the Caribbean.

• 11.04.16 Seeking gender and media expert UNESCO is looking for an expert on gender and media, who will be responsible, among other things, for the reinforcement of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), organization of the Women Make the News campaign, application of UNESCO's Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media, and implementation of other projects related to gender equality in media.

• 11.04.16 Director-General condemns murder of blogger Nazimuddin Samad in Bangladesh The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today urged the authorities to investigate the killing of citizen journalist Nazimuddin Samad who died in Dhaka last week.

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