Award for innovative education practices is your chance to bring your project to a global audience
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Showcase your education project to the world at Commonwealth awards
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Commonwealth priorities captured in political Declaration of UN High-Level Meeting
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Commonwealth welcomes global commitment to combat Non-Communicable Diseases
Commonwealth Chair-in-Office spearheads high-level meeting at UN attended by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet
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Greater efforts needed to promote women’s participation in politics
UN holds high-level meeting on action to combat non-communicable diseases
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Health just got political again
Speakers at high-level UN dialogue include Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet
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Commonwealth Chair-in-Office spearheads women’s leadership panel
Paper looks at the learning gained from the implementation of the Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol
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Study finds teachers face barriers in refugee communities
Mauritius conference to focus on best practices and cost-effectiveness of public expenditure
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Examining practices, issues and challenges of public procurement in the Commonwealth
Conference to explore linkages between communicable diseases such as HIV and TB and non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes
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Commonwealth supports international AIDS conference for Africa
Commonwealth Chair-in-Office Kamla Persad-Bissessar to raise awareness on women’s leadership role at UN General Assembly event
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Commonwealth chair to co-host UN event on women’s political participation
Workshop brings together policymakers, campaigners, media and youth
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Journalists can play a key role in raising awareness of non-communicable diseases – public health experts
Workshop equips Caribbean journalists to better inform the public of life-threatening NCDs and to influence policy-makers
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Caribbean journalists to raise awareness on non-communicable diseases
“It is imperative that NCD prevention programmes target youth since lifestyle habits are often adopted at this stage of life and frequently remain well into adulthood,” Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Ransford Smith
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Commonwealth video campaign targets NCDs risk in young people
The UK’s high performance sports agency seconds an adviser for the Secretariat’s Sport for Development and Peace programme
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UK Sport and Commonwealth Secretariat collaborate
Speaker: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Commonwealth Chair-in-Office, Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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Address by the Prime Minister of Trindad and Tobago at the launch of the UNGA side event on Women's Political Participation
Speakers include Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Foreign Minister and Baroness Verma, Department for International Development’s Spokesperson in the House of Lords
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Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to address London meeting on women’s rights
The burden of non-communicable diseases is evident in every corner of the Commonwealth, and is impacting on both rich and poor countries, at all levels of society – Commonwealth Secretary-General
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Health ministers to tackle non-communicable diseases
Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth of Learning and Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago jointly agree to improve access to, and use of, Information and Communication Technologies
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Caribbean schoolchildren to benefit from Commonwealth and Microsoft collaboration
“Most of the climate debate so far has been gender-blind”
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Sonia Gandhi urges Commonwealth to spearhead inclusion of women in global climate change debate
A message from Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma
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COMMONWEALTH DAY - 14 MARCH 2011
‘No other agency has sought to spur concrete investment in sport for development and peace through a strategy of target setting, monitoring and evaluation in this fashion’ – CABOS Chair
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Sport for development targets to set agenda at Delhi meeting
Theme will provide focus for global Commonwealth Day celebrations which will take place on March 14
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‘Women as Agents of Change’ is 2011 Commonwealth Day theme