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Namaste All, for your records.....ONS Tony.

 

 

UNESCO WITHDRAWS FROM CONFERENCE

>

>

> Paris, September 15 - UNESCO has decided it will no longer

sponsor

 

nor

> take part in a conference it had been due to co-organize with the

> Institute of Sathya Sai Education (ISSE, Thailand) and The

Flinders

> University Institute of International Education (Australia), in

> Puttaparthi, India, from September 25 to 29. The decision means

UNESCO is

> no longer associated in any way ­ through sponsorship,

organization

or

> participation of any kind ­ with the conference on

Strengthening

Values

> Education: Innovative Approaches to Teacher Education for Peace

and

> International Understanding.

>

> UNESCO¹s withdrawal was prompted by several factors. Certain

decisions

> were taken by the ISSE without consultation, such as plans to

hold

some

> of the sessions at the Ashram of the Sathya Sai movement in

Puttaparthi,

> and the inclusion of some speakers in the conference programme

without

> their previous consent. Furthermore, the Organization is deeply

concerned

> about widely-reported allegations of sexual abuse involving

youths

and

> children that have been levelled at the leader of the movement in

> question, Sathya Sai Baba. Whilst it is not for UNESCO to

pronounce

> itself in this regard, the Organization restates its firm moral

and

> practical commitment to combating the sexual exploitation of

children, in

> application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of

the

Child,

> which requires States to protect children from all forms of

sexual

> exploitation and violence.

>

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