Live to tell: International Day for Disaster Reduction (UNESCO - United...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'Live to Tell' Disasters induced by natural hazards affect millions of people every year worldwide. The resulting...
View ArticleEdit Schlaffer: Mothers, the much needed but missing ally for...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'Mothers are on the forefront of a new security paradigm,' Edit Schlaffer says, but our strategies of countering...
View ArticleUNESCO engages in immediate response following Hurricane Matthew in Haiti...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) UNESCO and partnering UN agencies have launched a UN Flash Appeal following a government-led emergency assessment of...
View ArticleWorkshop “Matching the Global SDG 4 Indicators with the Indicators of Sudan...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) On the 4-6 of October 2016, the Khartoum office of UNESCO with support of the Education Sector in Headquarter, Paris,...
View ArticleDirector-General condemns murder of TV journalist Felipe David Munguía...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn the murder of Felipe David Munguía Jiménez,' the Director-General said. 'I trust the authorities will...
View ArticleUNESCO helps I-REACT step up for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNESCO - United...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) (Watch the I-REACT on YouTube) Fires and floods based disasters cause thousands of deaths, serious economic, cultural...
View ArticleWest and Central Africa Regional Coordination Group: Making plans to achieve...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) In attendance at the meeting were regional representatives of United Nations agencies, multilateral organizations and...
View ArticleTeam of graduates from IOC co-sponsored GEBCO project enter Shell Ocean...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) GEBCO is a joint project of the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic...
View ArticleUNESCO Director-General pays tribute to Dario Fo (UNESCO - United Nations...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 13 October 2016 - The Director-General paid tribute to the Italian writer Dario Fo, winner of the Nobel Prize for...
View ArticleDirector-General urges investigation into the killing of freelance journalist...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn the murder of Isaac Vuni,' the Director-General said. 'It is important for society as a whole that the...
View ArticleRedirection - Declaration Ethics of Climate Change - Consultation (UNESCO -...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Distribution: limited SHS/YES/BIO-CC/2016/1 Rabat, 24 September 2016 Original: English FIRST DRAFT OF A PRELIMINARY...
View ArticleKwita Izina: traditional naming ceremony for baby gorillas raises awareness...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Tourism focused on natural environments forms a large and growing part of the tourism industry in Rwanda. The...
View Article[Translate to francais:] Team of graduates from IOC co-sponsored GEBCO...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) [Translate to francais:] GEBCO is a joint project of the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) and the...
View ArticleUNESCO votes: No connection between Temple Mount and Judaism
In a 24-6 vote, UNESCO on Thursday gave its preliminary approval to a resolution that ignores Jewish ties to its most holy religious sites: the Temple Mount and the Western Wall ......
View ArticleFirst Steps of the Kazakhstan Centre for the Rapprochement of Cultures...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 28 September, 2016 the city of Almaty hosted an international conference entitled 'International Decade for the...
View ArticleJapan withholds UNESCO funding after Nanjing Massacre row
TOKYO: Japan has withheld its 2016 funding for the UN heritage body UNESCO, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday, following its decision last year to include documents about the 1937 Nanjing...
View ArticleRavi Kanbur: Economic growth and poverty – the inequality connection (UNESCO...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Why do poverty and inequality persist despite sustained economic growth? Must development be inegalitarian, as some...
View ArticleIsrael suspends cooperation with UNESCO over Jerusalem draft
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel is suspending cooperation with UNESCO a day after the U.N. cultural agency adopted a draft resolution that Israel says...
View ArticleJapan may lose chance to reform UNESCO after failing to pay dues
Japan is facing an uphill battle in its attempt to wield influence at UNESCO. The government confirmed Friday that it has not paid Japan’s �3.85 billion contribution to the U.N. body this year in an...
View ArticleStatement by the Director-General of UNESCO on the Old City of Jerusalem and...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'The heritage of Jerusalem is indivisible, and each of its communities has a right to the explicit recognition of...
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