Toronto, Canada, 20 May 2016 - The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the oldest humanities research institute in Canada, today conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters upon His Highness the Aga Khan, in recognition of his work to advance, and advocate for, pluralistic societies across the globe. His Highness the Aga Khan, an honorary Canadian citizen and Companion of ...
Beirut, Lebanon and Tunis, Tunisia, 14-15 May 2016 - Aga Khan Music Initiative and Grammy nominee Bassekou Kouyaté from Mali team up to create "Garana Roots" - a music project music project that celebrates the heritage and centuries'-old music from Garana, historic region in the centre of Mali where Bassekou hails from. The world premiere of "Bassekou Kouyaté & Garana Roots" ...
Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, 12 May 2016 - The Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS), an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) formally launched its Medical and Diagnostic Centre in Naryn town, yesterday. The opening ceremony was attended by Mr. Amanbay Kayipov, Governor of Naryn Oblast, Mr. Rahat Adiev, Mayor of Naryn, Mr. Kuban Kundashev, Advisor to the Minister of Health ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 12 May 2016 - The Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Republic and the Ismaili Imamat today signed an Agreement of Cooperation to strengthen research capacity and to improve the quality of life in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking countries, particularly in Africa. This endeavour will be supported by the Ismaili Imamat with a 10 million ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 11-12 May 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan made a two-day official visit to Lisbon. During the visit he met with the President of the Republic His Excellency Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as well as a number of senior government officials including Prime Minister His Excellency António Costa, President of the Parliament His Excellency Mr Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 11 May 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan is in Portugal for his first visit since a landmark agreement establishing the global Seat of the Ismaili Imamat in Portugal came into effect. Yesterday, the Aga Khan - Imam (leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) - met with ...
Geneva, Switzerland, 9 May 2016 - The 19 shortlisted projects for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The projects, which were selected by the Master Jury from amongst 348 projects nominated for the 13th Award cycle, will be competing for US$ 1 million in prize money. They are: AZERBAIJANNew Power Station, Baku BANGLADESHBait Ur Rouf Mosque, DhakaFriendship ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 28 April 2016 - Aga Khan University, Kenya's Ministry of Health and a group of partners launched the Kenya Countdown to 2015 Country Case Study today, one of the most detailed analyses to date of Kenya's progress in reducing maternal and child deaths. The study provides policymakers, health care providers and the public with a roadmap that can guide ...
Beijing, China, 18 April 2016 - The Habib Bank Limited (HBL) is proud to be the first bank from Pakistan to receive a license for setting up a branch in China. It is also the first South Asian bank to get the permission to set up its banking operations in Urumqi, the largest city in the province of Xinjiang, which borders ...
Ottawa, Canada, 14 April 2016 - The University of Central Asia (UCA) has reaffirmed a commitment to improving education in the region through an innovative partnership with Canada's Seneca College. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, UCA's Executive Chairman of the Board Executive Committee and Diplomatic Representative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in the Kyrgyz Republic and Seneca President David Agnew commemorated the ...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 5-6 April 2016 - With the aim of promoting disaster resilience in the development and rehabilitation of Afghanistan, Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) in Afghanistan and the State Ministry of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs of Afghanistan (SMDM) organised a conference on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into the Development Planning Process. The conference was held in the ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 17 March 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan presided over the opening of a new state-of-the art printing plant that will print newspapers and magazines of the Nation Media Group - a media house he founded almost six decades ago. ...
Machakos County, Nairobi, Kenya, 17 March 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan today emphasized the importance of reliable and trustworthy media in a world filled with multiple sources of information. "In such a world, it is absolutely critical - more than ever - that the public should have somewhere to turn for reliable, balanced, objective and accurate information - as ...
Khorog, Tajikistan and Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, March 2016 - UCA is advancing construction of its three residential campuses at high altitude sites in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic; Khorog, Tajikistan; and Tekeli, Kazakhstan. UCA will inaugurate its first fully-residential campus in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic in September 2016, welcoming the first cohort of undergraduates to world class facilities, academic buildings and student and faculty ...
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 21 February 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan today extolled Africa's resilience, economic progress and new willingness to accept diversity. "What I see emerging today is a refreshingly balanced confidence in Africa - a spirit that takes encouragement from past progress, while also seeking new answers to new challenges," he said. The Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the ...
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 19 February 2016 - The University of Central Asia (UCA) has launched its undergraduate admissions campaign to encourage qualified students from rural and urban schools across Central Asia to apply. UCA, Central Asia's first fully residential university, is committed to making world-class education highly affordable through generous scholarships and student soft loans. The University's first campus will open ...
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), Tajikistan, 12 February 2016 - Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessments (HVRAs) have been completed in 339 villages in GBAO and Naryn town, reaching approximately 400,000 individuals and 139 organizations, through the DIPECHO project "Fostering Disaster Resilient Communities in Isolated Mountain Environments". DIPECHO assessments identified hazards and educated villagers on escape routes and safe havens. The HVRAs have ...
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), Tajikistan, 12 February 2016 - Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessments (HVRAs) have been completed in 339 villages in GBAO and Naryn town, reaching approximately 400,000 individuals and 139 organizations, through the DIPECHO project "Fostering Disaster Resilient Communities in Isolated Mountain Environments". ...
London, United Kingdom, 4 February 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan today called for the establishment of 'islands of stability' in war-ravaged Syria that could provide areas of relative safety in the midst of conflict. "We seek to create 'islands of stability', where there is public consensus, in the face of war. It is my conviction that 'islands of stability' ...
Delhi, India, 19 January 2016 -As part of its commitment to reading, learning and the exchange of ideas, the Aga Khan Foundation will be supporting the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, the world's largest free literature festival, taking place at Diggi Palace in Jaipur between the 21st and 25th January 2016. Matt Reed, Chief Executive Officer of the Aga Khan Foundation in ...
Independent Master Jury Will Select Recipients of US$ 1 Million Prize Geneva, Switzerland, 6 January 2016 - The members of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The Jury, which independently selects the recipients of the US$ 1 million Award, will convene in January 2016 to select a shortlist from hundreds of nominated projects. The ...
Kampala, Uganda, 17 December 2015 - The Aga Khan University, a not-for-profit, private international university, announced today it will build a teaching hospital in Kampala to provide Ugandans with health care and higher education of world-class quality. The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) in Kampala will train specialist doctors, nurses and other health professionals capable of leading the improvement of health ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 December 2015 - Prince Amyn Aga Khan, the younger brother of His Highness the Aga Khan, presented his credentials as the Personal Representative of His Highness the Aga Khan to Bangladesh. The ceremony took place at a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, HE Mr. Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday ...
Cambridge, MA, USA, 12 November 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Entitled "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World", his lecture covered the challenges to pluralism and cosmopolitanism. The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture provides for "the delivery of lectures by eminent and ...
Cambridge, Massachussetts, 12 November 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Entitled "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World", his lecture covered the challenges to pluralism and cosmopolitanism. ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 12 November 2015 - The University of Central Asia (UCA) launched three new books that focus on the history and cultures of the Pamir region of Tajikistan, including an Archaeological Map of the Eastern Pamirs by Mira Bubnova and two volumes in The Musical Arts of the Pamirs series by Nizom Nurdjanov, Fayzulla Karomatov and Bahriniso Kabilova. "This series ...
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 29 October 2015 - The University of Central Asia (UCA) is expected to complete the construction of its second campus in Tajikistan by 2017, at a total capital layout of US$94.4 million. Alongside a $64.4 million commitment from the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), including $7.5 million from the Aga Khan Foundation, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the ...
London, United Kingdom, 22 October 2015- His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the keynote address at a major conference of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) on Thursday, 22 October 2015 in the United Kingdom. ICOMOS has a special role as official adviser to UNESCO on cultural World Heritage Sites. Though the Historic Cities Programme of the Aga Khan ...
London, United Kingdom, 22 October 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan, today hailed restoration and preservation of cultural heritage as "a development resource of immense, potential value" in the overall improvement of the quality of human life. In a keynote address to a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Aga Khan ...
Geneva, Switzerland, 16 October 2015 - The Aga Khan Award for Architecture today announced the members of the Steering Committee for the Thirteenth Award Cycle (2014 - 2016). Established in 1977, the Award is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture. The Steering Committee is chaired by ...
Gouvieux, France, 16 October 2015 - Malaysia's state of Penang, Think City SDN Berhad and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) today signed a Management Collaboration Agreement that expands the scope of an existing partnership for the protection, development and enhancement of Penang's historic George Town for another three years. The agreement follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed in ...
Faizabad, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, 23 September 2015 - Sixty-one students were awarded the General Nursing Diploma at a graduation ceremony in Faizabad, Badakhshan. The ceremony marked a milestone: the graduation of the first class of nurses from a programme run in Faizabad and managed by the Badakhshan Provincial Public Health Directorate and Badakhshan Institute of Health Sciences, with technical support and advice ...
Athens, Greece, 15 September 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan today said improving the quality of life was the most important component of a successful democracy. "I believe that the progress of democracy in our world is fundamentally linked to improving the quality of human life," he said. He cited the ability to understand constitutional systems, independent and pluralistic media, ...
Athens, Greece, 15 September 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan delivered a keynote address to the Athens Democracy Forum, an international gathering of diplomats, business leaders and opinion makers hosted by the International New York Times and the United Nations Democracy Fund. ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 12 September 2015 - The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and BRAC today signed an agreement, in connection with a strategic partnership, which will allow BRAC to acquire a lead equity stake in Industrial Promotion Development Company of Bangladesh Limited (IPDC). Under the agreement signed today, BRAC, Ayesha Abed Foundation and RSA Capital Limited will acquire an ...
Islamabad, Pakistan, 4 August 2015 - Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) has been providing relief to villages in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, which have been affected by devastating floods resulting from monsoon rains and glacial outbursts. Flash flooding and debris flow have washed away over 100 villages while disrupting access to roads and bridges and causing damage to ...
Delhi, India, 21 July 2015 - A new documentary on the Aga Khan Trust for Culture's restoration of Humayun's Tomb in Delhi will be aired on the Discovery Channel in India starting on the 27th of July 2015. From Discovery: "Revealed: Humayun's Tomb is a documentary on the first monumental mausoleum of India. At the same time the narrative takes us ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 21 July 2015 - Intense heat in Tajikistan has led to an unusually rapid snowmelt this summer, causing floods that have destroyed schools, shops, crops, roads and power lines. To examine the effect of climactic changes on vulnerable Tajik populations, Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS), in collaboration with the Government of Tajikistan, will host a regional conference on Climate Change-Induced ...
Montreux, Switzerland, 10 July 2015 - The Aga Khan Music Initiative and the Montreux Jazz Festival are again joining forces - this time to present a musical collaboration between the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet and Mali's Trio Da Kali. The Music Initiative and the musically adventurous Kronos Quartet have collaborated since 2008 on a project that brings the quartet together with ...
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 7 July 2015 - The University of Central Asia (UCA) signed a memorandum of understanding on 7 July 2015 with Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, located in Toronto, Canada to develop the English, mathematics and science curriculum for UCA's first year Preparatory Programme. The programme will begin when UCA admits its first cohort of undergraduate students ...
