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UNESCO

UNESCO - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization - is the U.N. agency responsible for coordinating official observance of the International Year of Languages.

Website: http://www.unesco.org/

Key UNESCO pages on IYL

 

• 2008, International Year of Languages  (portal/gateway page)
  • Tools Kit 
  • How to participate: Possible action fields  (information from that page is also on this site at: UNESCO's "Possible Action Fields")
  • Project Form 
  • Projects List 
  • Translation of slogan "Languages matter!" into 200 languages  (in PDF format)
  • Calendar of some major events 
• "Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the celebration of 2008, International Year of Languages" 
  • Available translations 
• International Mother Language Day
  • Launching of the International Year of Languages in the framework of the International Mother Language Day 
  • International Year of Languages to be launched at UNESCO  (20-02-2008)
  • International Year of Languages to be launched at UNESCO  (07-02-2008)
  • Debate on Multilingualism with Assia Djebar of the French Academy 
  • Program (on this site)
    • Program in PDF format, B/W 
    • Program in PDF format, color 
  • Report on the launching of IYL at UNESCO 
• The UNESCO Courier (2008 - number 1) "Languages matter" 
• World Poetry Day
  • UNESCO World Poetry Directory 
  • Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Poetry Day 21 March 2008  (in PDF format)
• World Book and Copyright Day
  • World Book and Copyright Day home page 
  • Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day 23 April 2008 

UNESCO & languages

Language in UNESCO is a subject dealt with by several different "sectors" within the organization. For more information, see:

• Languages and Multilingualism 
  • Contacts 
• Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Education 
• In Focus (UNESCO-Culture homepage)  (as of 2-2008 this has links related to IYL and other language-related work)
• "Report by the Director-General on an Overall Strategy for an Intersectoral Programme for Languages at UNESCO," 171 EX/20, 9 March 2005  (in PDF format)