To collect ideas and help develop a new ESD programme framework as a follow-up to the UN Decade of ESD, UNESCO has launched an online questionnaire.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

New regulations likely to be proposed by the State Department next year may follow guidelines being drafted by the UN and the OECD, a rich-country club, that will advise companies on how best to trace the origin of their materials.

ECONOMIST: Congo's conflict minerals

The discussion focused on the follow-up and implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1998 on the protection of children in armed conflict, which was adopted shortly after the publication of the 2011 UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Education for All on the hidden crisis of education in conflict.

UNESCO: Communication and Information