UNESCO's priority of priorities

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If you go to the UNESCO End-of Decade conference website, you find this information in a page bottom strap line:

Our priorities

Africa Gender Equality Education for All Sustainable Development Ethics Intercultural Dialogue Knowledge Societies

Popular topics

World Heritage Water Intangible Heritage Press Freedom HIV & AIDS Climate Change Languages Post-Crisis Youth

Resources

Conventions & Recommendations Documents Statistics Photos Bookshop Media Name and Logo Human rights violation

So, where's ESD, I wondered to myself.   Then I remember a government minister in England once arguing that religious studies was not in the national curriculum because it was far too important.  Is that the case here, perhaps?  Is ESD so much of a priority that it doesn't need listing as a priority?  Plausible ...

But I fear there is a more prosaic explanation.  If you click on Sustainable Development you get taken to an ESD page.  So, it is a priority after all.  Phew!

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