The review of the Memory of the World Programme is now online (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) This review is seeking to explore means for further improvement of the programme. Welcomed by the UNESCO Executive...
View ArticleWinners announced: #OurWorldHeritage Instagram Competition (UNESCO - United...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the winners of the #OurWorldHeritage photo and story competition....
View ArticleUNESCO champions freedom of expression with the Supreme Court of Justice of...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The agreement with the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay was signed by the UNESCO Director-General and the...
View ArticleSimultaneous bottom-up and top-down approach needed to expand media and...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'We need both a bottom up and top down approach for MIL,' said Carolyn Wilson from Western University, Canada, and...
View ArticleDirector-General deplores death of Syrian journalist Khalid Al Issa in Turkey...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn this act of violence which led to Khalid Al Issa's death,' the Director-General said. 'The work and...
View ArticleBuilding capacity of indigenous journalists in Thailand and Cambodia to...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The two basic journalism trainings were organized in July and September 2015 in Surin Province in Thailand and in...
View ArticleSix more countries sign Call for Action on Homophobic and Transphobic...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Countries have until the end of July to add their support to the Call for Action which was issued at the end of a...
View ArticleUNESCO contributes to Kenya’s Digital Literacy Programme by capacitating...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The Digital Literacy Programme is Kenya's national ICT program that aims to improve learning and build 21 century...
View ArticleSatellite Imagery helping to monitor cultural heritage sites under threat...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Cultural heritage around the world suffers from intentional attacks, collateral damage, looting and the effects of...
View ArticleUNESCO Director-General stands with African Artists for Development and Magic...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The Director-General stressed the vital role of culture and education to support people in emergency situations, and...
View ArticleUNESCO ‘Youth Mobile’ Course (25 - 29 July 2016) (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The University of Balamand and the regional office of UNESCO in Beirut are organizing a training workshop for the...
View ArticleEcuador making progress towards consolidating its public policies to help...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The last of three capacity-building workshops on elaborating public policies to safeguard intangible cultural...
View ArticlePromoting freedom of expression and access to public information in Latin...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) From 25 to 27 June, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information Frank La Rue accompanied the...
View ArticleRiga Recommendations highlight Media and Information Literacy as a life code...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) MIL is very alive, within the institutions and on grassroots level. Calling on the roles of UNESCO Member States,...
View ArticleCorrecting media myths about refugees and migrants (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Yet these challenges are made even harder by a lack of accurate, accessible information in the media, where myth and...
View ArticlePromoting freedom of expression and access to public information in Latin...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) From 25 to 27 June, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information Frank La Rue accompanied the...
View ArticleDirector-General opens 1st meeting of the UNESCO Task Force on the 2030...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'The 2030 Agenda is a global, universal and transformative agenda for human rights and dignity, for poverty...
View ArticleUNESCO Director-General pays tribute to the memory of Elie Wiesel (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'Elie Wiesel was a pillar of the conscience of humanity, a moral compass for human rights, human dignity, human...
View ArticleJoining strengths with the Private Sector in Germany (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) A meeting with the German Private Sector 'Joining strengths to make a difference', held on 30 June 2016 at Haus der...
View ArticleA YouthMobile Summer School on mobile applications development starts today...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Organized by the UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office, in cooperation with Kloop Media Public Foundation and Shakhmardan...
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