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This year’s LitCam event took place on 4 and 5 October 2010 in Frankfurt under the theme “Literacy and Human Rights”. Keynote speakers were Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Alberto Estanislao Sileoni, Minister of Education, Argentina (the 2010 book fair’s Guest of Honour) and Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of the Republic of Latvia and Ambassador for the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Presentations, workshops and the accompanying exhibition featured organisations from Senegal, Argentina, Tibet, India, Palestine, Germany and Switzerland. The first regional LitCam Conference was held on 31 July 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa, with John Aitchison as keynote speaker. The LitCam conference 2011 will be on literacy and sustainable development. For more information, see:
www.litcam.org.
