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Students Stand #withMalala campaign, a collaboration between Participant Media and Malala Fund, announced on February 10 that it is making 20,000 DVDs of He Named Me Malala available for free to teachers across the U.S. to use in their classroom.

Already generating local anticipation and international buzz, with a second series already committed to by the Sundance Channel in the US, Cleverman represents a new chapter in Indigenous storytelling on screen.

Screen Australia has announced the next step in Gender Matters, the five point, $5 million plan over three years to address the gender imbalance within the Australian screen industry. Working closely with the Gender Matters Taskforce, Screen Australia will on 28 January launch two new funding programs as part of this initiative: Brilliant Careers and Brilliant Stories.

In November 2015, the 38th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a Strategy for the reinforcement of the organization’s actions for the protection of culture and the promotion of cultural pluralism in the event of armed conflict.

A UK major new project is being launched to explore how the creative, digital and IT (CDIT) sector in North East UK can be developed in order to play a leading role in the region’s economy.

Ministry of Culture, 2014La danza del wititi del valle del Colca (Perú)

Screen Australia announced a five point, $5 million plan over three years for Gender Matters, a suite of initiatives that address the gender imbalance within the Australian screen industry on 7 December.

UNESCO organized an International Expert Meeting on the Responsibility to Protect as applied to the Protection of Cultural Heritage from 26 to 27 November 2015. The primary purpose of the meeting was to discuss the concept of Responsibility to Protect and its possible application to the protection of cultural heritage.

Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport & Culture of Namibia, 201Oshituthi shomagongo, marula fruit festival (Namibia)