"UNESCO is extremely pleased to respond to the request of the Qatari National Commission and Ministry of Culture and Sports and organise this training to.
February 8th, 2021, by Mitchell Beer
A biogas installation being built in Zambia: The GECF expects huge rises in gas production by its members.
Image: By SuSanA Secretariat, via ClimateVisuals
EXCLUSIVE: A leading UN agency, UNESCO, is harming action on the climate crisis by partnering with natural gas exporters, critics say.
OTTAWA, 8 February, 2021− UNESCO, a prominent United Nations agency, is undercutting global action on the climate emergency, analysts and campaigners warn, by forming a partnership with a global forum dedicated to promoting and greenwashing natural gas exports.
UN Secretary General António Guterres has repeatedly warned that humanity’s “utterly inadequate” response to the climate emergency is already producing extreme weather and dramatic consequences around the world.
21 Jan 2021 - 8:11
Dr. Hamda Al Sulaiti (second right), Secretary-General, Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, presenting the L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science Middle East Young Talent award to Dr. Isra Yousef Marei. Dr. Anna Paolini (right), Director, Unesco Regional Office in Doha; and Dr. Khaled Machaca, Senior Associate Dean, Research and Commercialization at the Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar, were also present at the event held at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Doha yesterday. Pic: Salim Matramkot/The Peninsula
By Sanaullah Ataullah | The Peninsula
Doha: A woman from Qatar Dr. Isra Yousef Marei has won $100,000 L’Oréal-Unesco For Women In Science prize for Middle East Young Talent Programme 2020.
Arab Women May Soon Take The Lead in Scientific Research and Innovation albawaba.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from albawaba.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DUBAI: When the pandemic is finally defeated, the scientists who devised vaccines in record time will no doubt be hailed as the paladins of coronavirus prevention. So too will the tech experts who through the lockdowns helped move jobs and infrastructure into the digital space. There will be no shortage of heroes, but can the same be said about heroines?
In spite of recent progress, women remain a minority in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions, especially in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Now experts in the region are calling on schools, governments and employers to do more to fix the imbalance.