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The UNESCO General Conference adopted their recommendations in the fall of 1962 and the French Government provided a building to house this new institution. [2] Philip Hall Coombs who had been the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Kennedy administration , was appointed as its first director in 1963.
This document is the legitimate successor of the International Charter of Physical Education and Sport, [2] originally adopted in 1978, during the 20th General Conference of UNESCO. The original Charter, which was amended in 1991, was the first rights-based document to state that "the practice of physical education and sport is a fundamental ...
While collaboration, sharing, and openness have "been an ongoing feature of educational" and research practices "past and present", [8] the term "OER" was first coined to describe associated resources at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on Open Courseware, [14] which determined that "Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research ...
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and countries, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for coordinating the actions of member states. [2]
Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Health Reform) – locally referred to as La Reforma ('The Reform') – is a government-run program which provides medical and health care services to the indigent and impoverished, by means of contracting private health insurance companies, rather than employing government-owned hospitals and ...
Montevideo (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ v ɪ ˈ d eɪ oʊ /, [10] US also /-ˈ v ɪ d i oʊ /; [11] Spanish: [monteβiˈðeo]) is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) [12] in an area of 201 square kilometers (78 sq mi).