May 13, 2021
The event, which was held in Uzbek, English and Russian languages, featured Supreme Court Judges and high-level judges from Slovenia, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan. Moreover, international experts, like Diego Garcia-Sayan, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, also shared their insights on the need for strengthening judicial processes and maintaining a balanced use of digital technologies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, on 5 May 2021, UNESCO participated in a virtual roundtable on the Role of Prosecutors in Proceedings against Journalists, organized by the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Prosecutor General Office Academy of Uzbekistan. The virtual roundtable centred around the legal protections for journalists and media workers. It included an address by James Callahan, Senior Program Advisor for the U.S. State Department’s INL Bureau, which funded the event, along with a video message from UNESCO
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Ellen Boccuzzi was formerly associate director for Governance and Law, leading The Asia Foundation’s Urban Governance Initiative. She has more than fifteen years of professional experience in international development, good governance, and civil society issues with a focus on Asia.
Prior to joining the Asia Foundation, Dr. Boccuzzi served as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she managed USAID’s media development portfolio in Afghanistan and contributed to USAID strategies on human trafficking and Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG).
Dr. Boccuzzi has worked as a consultant to the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNESCO on migration and education issues across Asia. She has also served as a researcher with the Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM) and as lead Bangkok researcher for a multi-country project on squatter resettlement.
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With rapid educational expansion in many developing countries, much progress has been made in terms of access to education. According to a new IIASA-led study, being in school is however not the same as learning and this expansion in quantity may come at the expense of quality, with the possible negative implications of the current COVID-19 pandemic on schooling possibly exacerbating the situation.
Given that skills are one of the key drivers of socioeconomic development, a global and consistent analysis of human capital - broadly defined as the skills acquired through formal education - that considers not only the quantity but also the quality of education is essential for policymakers to draw the right conclusions. Despite its importance as a key driver of economic growth and social development, the measurement of human capital for working-age populations, on a global scale and over time, is however still unsatisfactory.