Ministerial SDG4 Regional Forum for Eastern Africa on “Ensuring inclusive and...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Over 150 participants, including Ministers of Education and their representatives, partners from international...
View ArticleSwedish biosphere reserves as arenas for implementing the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The report identifies five main functions that biosphere reserves perform for sustainable development: providing...
View ArticleSamsung Corporate Citizenship aims further by improving access to education...
In keeping with Samsung’s goal to enrich and transform lives through digital technology, the electronics giant today reiterated its commitment to advancing access to technology in education across...
View ArticleTelangana wants UNESCO recognition for Charminar, Golconda
Hyderabad: The Telangana Government is working towards getting UNESCO recognition for Charminar, Golconda and Qutub Shahi...
View ArticleUN Investigators Allege Syria Deliberately Bombed Humanitarian Convoy
United Nations investigators said that in September Syrian government aircraft purposefully bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy which killed 14 aid workers and halted relief operations, according...
View ArticleIDB, UNESCO: It is urgent to address deficiencies in school infrastructure in...
A significant number of the region's students, especially those from lower income families and those in rural areas, do not have ensured access to schools with basic infrastructure resources, said IDB...
View ArticleUN has 9 candidates on shortlist for cultural agency chief
PARIS (AP) -- The United Nations on Thursday announced nine possible candidates on a shortlist to replace the chief of UNESCO, the world body's Paris-based cultural agency, including four Arab...
View ArticleUN reveals Arab-heavy shortlist for cultural agency chief
PARIS: The United Nations has announced an Arab-heavy shortlist for candidates to replace Bulgarian Irina Bokova as head of the world body’s cultural agency....
View ArticleThis Unesco programme is now in Malaysia
It has been a busy time for Women, Family and Community Development minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim who has been in the thick of things with the campaign against sexual predators at the recent...
View ArticleMajor tourist attraction resorts to face recognition scanners because people...
Headed to the public restroom and need TP? If you're at...
View ArticleKathmandu Valley’s heritage at stake
File – A monument, damaged by the 2015 earthquake, undergoes reconstruction in Basantapur Durbar Area in Kathmandu, on Friday, August 12, 2016. Kathmandu, March 24 A UNESCO mission, which arrived in...
View ArticleLowest bidders a major threat
Workers renovating a heritage site at Basantpur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on February 8, 2017. Kathmandu, March 24 Caretaker Deepak Shrestha padlocked the quake-ravaged remains of the Trailokya Mohan...
View ArticleTribute to Fidel Castro by UNESCO representatives of the Group of 77 plus China
The session also saw the transfer of the temporary presidency of the G77 + China UNESCO Chapter from Zimbabwe to El Salvador ......
View ArticleOld age, depopulation decimating A-bomb-spared Kitakyushu
Few places evoke the rise and fall of Japan’s industrial might than the head office of the Imperial Steel Works in Kitakyushu. The red brick Meiji Era building was the heart of the nation’s first big...
View ArticleArab states to UNESCO: Reject Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem
This text marks the first time that the Arab states have questioned the issue of Israeli sovereignty in the western part of Jerusalem. ......
View ArticleGreat Barrier Reef 'cooking and dying' as seas heat up, warn scientists
(CNN)More than two-thirds of the coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing "shocking" amounts of bleaching, new aerial surveys have revealed. Back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and...
View ArticleIndigenous people can manage their forests better than anyone else
Many of our planet’s most beautiful areas are also sites of intense conflicts. In a recent example, traditional herdsmen took over the land around Mount Kenya in February, which is a World Heritage...
View ArticleWildlife crime 'threatens nearly half the world's heritage sites'
Poaching, illegal logging and fishing are threatening endangered species in some of the world's most iconic...
View ArticleBrown powder found scattered around World Heritage castle in Kyoto
A brown powder was found scattered Tuesday at around 50 locations in Nijo Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Kyoto, police said. The substance, apparently curry powder, was found by a guide near a...
View ArticleIslamic State takes credit as gunmen kill policeman near Egypt’s St....
Gunmen attacked security forces near St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai on Tuesday, killing at least one police officer and injuring four others, the Health Ministry said, just a week...
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