This year, the Forum was also marked by the active participation of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation and Academy Award winner, Forest Whitaker, and United Nations Youth Champion and star of High School Musical, Monique Coleman.
Getting the 1.8 million children back to school in time for the new term is one of the biggest operations the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has ever undertaken.
Women, particularly in the developing world, continue to under-perform: nearly one in five girls who enrolls in primary school does not complete her education, soon becoming one of the more than 781 million illiterate adults in developing nations.
Plus, in high school he received the Meritorious Distinction for Senior Thesis: Female Empowerment as a result of Microfinance Institutions in Third-World Nations.
Students from the Maori immersion class at Te Kura A Rito O Newton (Newton School) in Central Auckland have won major awards as part of a nationwide photographic competition held to celebrate the 2010 United Nations International Year of Biodiversity.