UNESCO Courier articles from November 1998

UNESCO Courier archives from November 1998

From Russia's coal country.(includes related article on World Bank's $500 million loan to Russia)(Siberia)
November 1, 1998... Russia's angry miners Half of Russia's 900,000 miners have been sacked over the past seven years and the other half are struggling to make ends meet because they are being paid months, even years late. Their anger exploded last January ...

Imagining and building the 21st century.(UNESCO)(Editorial)
November 1, 1998... Unesco's activities are based on the conviction that it is possible to influence the course of world events and that tomorrow's world is being constructed today. And the structure will be all the more solid if it rests on clear ethical...

Nuclear watch in the far north.(Scandinavian countries concerned over the concentration of Russian nuclear material on the Kola peninsula)
November 1, 1998... The fate of the unparalleled concentration of nuclear material on Russia's Kola peninsula is alarming neighbouring Scandinavian countries The strike only lasted an hour, but it was enough to set alarm bells ringing in Moscow. Organized by...

The river's revenge.(Yangtze River, China)
November 1, 1998... Heavy rainfall led to this year's flooding in China, but years of human error turned it into a national catastrophe The floods that ravaged the Chang Jiang (Yangtze-Kiang, literally the "Long River") basin this year were the most serious...

Under the scorching sun.(vocational education in Kenya)
November 1, 1998... Half of Kenya's children drop out of primary school. Efforts to provide them with vocational training, formally or on the job, are yielding modest but promising results In a poor area of Nairobi, under a blazing sun, fifteen-year-old...

Myths and realities.(includes related article on immigrant remittances)(international migration)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... The globalization of international migration makes it more important than ever for receiving countries to grasp its complexities rather than retreat into a siege mentality The complex effects of international migration today touch the...

Who goes where?(includes related article on how immigrants can acquire the nationality of the country to which they emigrate)(international migration)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... A world-wide overview of immigration - host countries, numbers, ways and means, goals and traditions The very word "hosting" is ambiguous when applied to immigrants, so many and varied are the ways of devising, practising and approaching...

Eternal scapegoats.(includes related article on expulsion of immigrants)(immigrant workers)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... Vulnerable and 'different', immigrants are easy targets when their host countries experience hard times No major industrialized country can in good faith deny the contribution of immigrant labour to its prosperity, not even "impenetrable"...

Last train to El Dorado?(includes related article on agencies recruiting immigrants to the Middle East)(South Africa)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... Confronted with a serious economic crisis and mounting xenophobia, South Africa is up against the need for a new immigration policy The train and the migrant have become indivisible through time in South Africa. Songs and lore feature the...

The Italian exception.(foreign immigrants in Italy)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... Italy, once a notable source of emigrants, has become a magnet for immigrants in the last 20 years A few months ago Italy's Minister of the Interior, Giorgio Napolitano, told parliament that "Italy has a vocation as a country of...

Buenos dias California!(Mexican immigrants in California)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... It is time to debunk the myths surrounding California's large and growing Latino immigrant population California: land of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Disneyland and movie stars - this has been the popular conception of the names and symbols...

The threatened dream.(Australia's zero immigration policy)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... Australia's policy of migration diversity has become a political hot potato Zero immigration - the call of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party - is threatening the dreams of thousands of potential settlers to Australia, a country that once...

Immigration policy in a global economy.(Cover Story)
November 1, 1998... Economic globalization may encourage - or even force - the states of the North to get together and frame enlightened multilateral immigration policies Immigration is increasingly seen in terms of threats. The prevalent image of this threat...

Small arms, many hands.(proliferation of small firearms)
November 1, 1998... An unusual mix of groups and governments braves a political minefield to curb the spread of light weapons Lying in a hospital bed with chest and shoulder wounds, a sergeant in the Soviet Army began designing in 1941 what is now the world's...

Africa's video alternative.
November 1, 1998... Movie-makers in English-speaking Africa who cannot afford 'to produce classic celluloid films are winning popular acclaim with low-cost video productions In the Third World and among urban ghetto dwellers in advanced countries, some...

Crossed wires in global telecoms.
November 1, 1998... Deregulation of the telecommunications market may inflict crippling costs on some of the world's poorest countries If you have a friend in Sydney, Johannesburg or Beijing and you haven't spoken to them for a while, you will soon have to...

Mira Nair: an eye for paradox.(includes related article on Nair's filmography)(Interview)
November 1, 1998... One of India's most celebrated and controversial film-makers is driven by an obsession with creative freedom You were born in India, studied in the United States and now live in South Africa. Where is home? I left India when I was...

The 'tough sister.'.(Indian movie director Mira Nair)
November 1, 1998... Mira Nair took the film world by storm with her first feature, Salaam Bombay!, in 1988. Coming from a country which produces more feature films than any other, she proved that even art movies can be commercially successful. Her film career,...