UNESCO aims to make moral case for combating climate change in global...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) UNESCO has asked 24 environmental experts from around the world to write the first draft of a preliminary text of a...
View ArticleUNESCO welcomes the restoration of sacred gate of Sidi Yahia in Timbuktu...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The gate, regarded as sacred, had been pulled out and damaged on 2 July 2012 by armed extremists who occupied the...
View ArticleAppeal of Conscience Foundation annual event call to action against Violent...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The event made a powerful call to action for greater solidarity, including interreligious dialogue, in the fight...
View ArticleWorld leaders approve UN plan for responding to large movements of refugees...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The Declaration identifies a number of key commitments based on a humane and coordinated approach to dealing with the...
View ArticleEmma Watson and HeForShe Champions Gender Equality (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The event took place in the presence of high-level participants, led by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile...
View Article1,000 Viet Nam schools enhance environmental threat responses through ESD...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Through School Preparedness Plans (SPP) based on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), more than 1,000 schools...
View ArticleEducation Cannot Wait Holds High Level Steering Group Meeting (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The Initiative aims to bridge the humanitarian to development divide by inspiring political commitment, generating...
View ArticleEfforts to preserve memories of aging ‘comfort women’ gains urgency
Efforts to preserve and pass on the memories of the “comfort women” have become more urgent as the victims of wartime sexual violence age. An international alliance of nongovernmental organizations...
View ArticleStanding with President Hollande, Vice-President Biden, to defend Cultural...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) This included a keynote speech by French President, François Hollande and US Vice President Joe Biden, introduced by...
View ArticleInternational Literacy Day 2016 in the Khartoum / Omdurman / Bahri metropolis...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) On the 6-8 September 2016, The Khartoum office of UNESCO with partners organized three events celebrating the World...
View ArticleUNESCO connects information and development to mark first international Day...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The conference and discussions, grouped under the title Powering sustainable development with public access to...
View ArticleJames Delgado and Michel L’Hour: underwater cultural heritage needs more...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The largest museum in the world rests under the water, beneath the oceans, lakes and rivers of every nation and on...
View ArticleAlmaty in the stream of history (UNESCO - United Nations Educational,...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) On 15-16 September Department of Culture and the archives of Almaty city and SMGE 'Association of museums of Almaty...
View ArticleKazakhstan took the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Federation of UNESCO Clubs and...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) During the 23rd Session of the Executive Board of the Asia-Pacific Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Associations...
View ArticleSupport creativity & the diversity of cultural expressions around the world -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) As world leaders take part in the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss the implementation of the Sustainable...
View ArticleGlobal frameworks on the road to 2030: IOC-UNESCO presents its contribution...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The presentation offered Member States a closer look at the important role IOC plays in the implementation of major...
View ArticleDirector-General condemns murder of journalist Aurelio Cabrera Campos in...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn the murder of Aurelio Cabrera Campos,' said the Director-General. 'I call on the authorities to...
View ArticleNew online Master Course on ESD from Gothenburg University (UNESCO - United...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) There is only one Earth. With global challenges such as climate change, mass extinction of species, rising inequity...
View ArticleAn ocean without oxygen? New IOC-UNESCO working group tackles the issue of...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Oxygen is critical to the health of the planet. It impacts the cycles of carbon, nitrogen and other key elements, and...
View ArticleGermany and UNESCO sign to support the Global Education Monitoring Report...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The government of Germany is one of the longest standing bilateral donors to the GEM Report (formerly the Education...
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