unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (09/12/89)
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON EDUCATION AGAINST APARTHEID OPENS IN GENEVA GENEVA, 4 September -- A three-day International Seminar on Education Against Apartheid began its work today, organized by the NGO Sub-Committee on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Apartheid and Decolonization in co-operation with the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. Its objectives are to provide information and wider international publicity to the current situation in South Africa under apartheid, to evaluate educational programmes and impact on the international campaign against apartheid, and to define new forms of education in support of the international campaign against apartheid and racial discrimination. Three workshops will be organized on the following subjects: Review of anti-apartheid action in the framework of formal educational institutions and the implications for teachers and students; the impact of conferences, seminars, workshops etc., on education against apartheid; and anti-apartheid education and mobilization of the public through the media, religious bodies, NGO activities and other channels of communication and exchange. After an opening address by Major-General Joseph Garba, Chairman, Special Committee against Apartheid, the participants heard the views of Romesh Chandra, Chairman, NGO Sub-Committee on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Apartheid and Decolonization; K.F. Nyamekye, Deputy Director, Centre for Human Rights; M.S. Agwani, Vice-Rector, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Robert Harris, Secretary-General, World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Professions; and Bojana Jordan, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501) --- Patt Haring | UNITEX : United Nations patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-