The announcement promises deploying large numbers of health workers to cover more and more children under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), one of the world's largest immunisation programmes, covering some 26 million children born each year.

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The MoW Programme encourages universal access to documentary heritage and raises awareness of its role in shaping the world we live in today.

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But he said the welfare-to-work programme and a plan for a Universal Benefit payments, due to start coming into effect in 2013, would succeed in getting more people into employment.

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Produced under the programme "Tagore, Neruda and Cesaire, for a Reconciled Universal", this CD is part of the collection "Songs of Rabindranath Tagore".

UNESCO: Culture

Conservation and protection of World Heritage Sites located in Pakistan are of utmost priority and despite the negligible budget allocation for its biannual regular programme, UNESCO Islamabad has succeeded in creating a general awareness regarding the universal significance of these sites through advocacy, networking and generating extra-budgetary resources.

UNESCO: CULTURE

This year marked an important step in the pursuit of our activities, with the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, and the 40th anniversary of the Man and the Biosphere programme.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Muhyiddin, who invited Unesco secretary-general Irina Bokova to Kuala Lumpur to sign an MoU to endorse the co-operation during the launch of the first programme under the initiative in June, said some countries had great achievements in universal primary education while others, especially from the sub-Sahara region, were far from the target.

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