Launched in January 2012, the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All aims to promote educational responses to counter discrimination and violence through strengthening the foundations of mutual tolerance, and cultivating respect for all people, regardless of colour, gender or national, ethnic or religious identity.

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Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance.

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The UNESCO-USA-Brazil Teaching Respect for All Project has the goal of outlining a curriculum structure that promotes tolerance, adaptable to the contexts and necessities of different countries.

UNESCO: International Seminar discusses Education on Ethnic-racial Relations | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Yayorin ( www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.

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