Ms Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, is the guest of honour at the event.

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This work, based on the collaboration between the Commission of the African Union and UNESCO, is part of a process aiming at getting this Charter to be known and disseminated.

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One of the goals of the UNESCO Strategy on African Youth is to partner with the African Union Commission to promote the ratification and implementation of the Charter throughout the African continent.

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They reaffirmed the engagement of UNESCO and the African Union Commission to continue working together in the critical areas of education, science, technology and innovation, and for a culture of peace.

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Four other legal groups - including the International Commission of Jurists and the Pan African Lawyers Union - condemned her detention.

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In 2004 the chairman of the African Union Commission, Alpha Oumar Konare, reminded an AU summit that the continent had suffered from 186 coups and 26 major wars in the past 50 years.

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It will be opened by Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, in the presence of the Ethiopian Prime minister, Meles Zenawi, and Jean Ping, Chair of the African Union Commission.

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Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister, and Jean Ping, Chair of the African Union Commission, led much of the discussion, which centred on the impact of the global recession.

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African Union Commission as part of the Decade for Youth Empowerment and Youth Development in Africa (2009-2018).

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