The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) signed an agreement today in London with Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, to further upgrade and enhance the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System... - More

UNESCO and Hewlett-Packard (HP) will sign a strategic partnership agreement on 19 December to strengthen their collaboration around existing education projects. The signing ceremony will be held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris and attended by Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General and Gabriele Zedlmayer, vice president, Global Citizenship HP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)... - More

The first ordinary session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, chaired by Gilbert Laurin, Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, ended in Ottawa on Thursday 13 December with a call for solidarity in safeguarding a dynamic and pluralistic international cultural sector... - More

Midway to the 2015 target date for achieving the Education for All goals, ministers, donors, and multilateral and civil society representatives committed to a set of actions for 2008 to reach excluded groups, improve education quality and increase the financing of basic education... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, will award this year’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education at UNESCO Headquarters on 19 December at 10 a.m. The ceremony will take place in the presence of Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, President of Bahrain’s Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation, and Majed Bin Ali Al Noaimi, Minister of Education of the Kingdom of Bahrain... - More

UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura sent his deepest condolences to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon following the two attacks in Algiers today that killed more than 60 people and injured many others, including law school students and staff of UNDP and UNHCR... - More

Sustainable irrigation in rural South Africa, communicating medical data through optical fibers in Nepal, and building workshops for carpentry and bakery apprentices in Guatemala, are among the 31 projects from 31 countries* rewarded by the UNESCO and Daimler Mondialogo Engineering Award in Mumbai, India, on 10 December... - More

The cyclone that left more than 3,000 people dead in Bangladesh in mid November, also devastated the Sundarbans World Heritage Site, according to UNESCO experts who visited the mangrove forest on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers... - More

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The 2007 Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture has been awarded to university professors Aladine Lolah (Syria) and Shah Abdus Salam (India), following the recommendations of the Sharjah Prize international jury, which considered 28 candidates presented by 23 Member States... - More

Education experts, scientists and environmental specialists will meet in Ahmedabad (India) from 26 to 28 November to examine the key role of education in achieving sustainable development. Entitled “Environmental Education towards a Sustainable Future – Partners for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD)” the conference is sponsored by UNESCO and UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), and organized by the Government of India... - More

The Lithuanian discus thrower Virgilijus Alekna will be named UNESCO Champion for Sport by Koïchiro Matsuura, the Organization’s Director-General, at a ceremony on 23 November at UNESCO Headquarters (6 p.m.)... - More

UNESCO and France Télévisions, France’s national public service television broadcaster, will host a conference entitled “Migration and integration, Europe’s big challenge. What role do the media play?” The event, under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the high patronage of the President of the French Republic, of the president of the European Parliament and of the Secretary-General of the European Council, will be held on 22 and 23 of November at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris... - More

The symposium will bring together ethnomusicologists, ethnologists, historians, musicologists, authors, musicians, composers, lawyers, as well as representatives of academia, governments, non governmental and international organizations, and the private sector from all parts of the world... - More

The Intergovernmental Coordination Group (ICG) of the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS) will meet in Lisbon (Portugal) from 21 to 23 November to take stock of progress on the system’s development. The meeting is organized by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Government of Portugal... - More

In the countries of South and South-West Asia, an estimated 388 million adults lack literacy skills. In Central Asia, while literacy rates are high, women comprise 72.5% of the illiterate population. How to redress these situations will be the subject of an international conference of experts and representatives from governments, specialized non-governmental organizations and donor countries to be held in New Delhi (India) on 29 and 30 November... - More

Promotion of ethics and values in sports through education and public awareness raising, particularly to combat racism and violence in sports, make up the core of the partnership agreement that Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO’s Director-General, and Joan Laporta I Estruch, President of the Futbol Club Barcelona, will sign on 23 November at UNESCO Headquarters... - More

“Making Peace with the Earth” will be the theme of the next session of 21st Century Dialogues, which will bring five eminent personalities - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Hubert Reeves, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Luisa Molina and Mathis Wackernagel - to UNESCO on 26 November (6.30-8.30 p.m., Room XII)... - More

Iraqi broadcasters, parliamentarians and representatives of the judiciary, have drafted a proposal to strengthen existing legislation to guarantee free and independent media in the country... - More

The International Jury of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize will meet on 6 November at UNESCO Headquarters (Room 16, Miollis) to designate the laureates of the Prize. The President of the Jury, Henry Kissinger, will announce the decision on the same day at noon... - More

Speaking before the 34th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, today declared that African society had to assert its cultural identity... - More

In an address to the 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, today promoted the equality of cultures and called on multilateral organizations to “heed the voice of developing countries.”... - More

“We have deep faith in the capital importance of human development and we prove this in our actions,” declared the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Sidi Mohamed Ould Sheikh Abdallahi, before the General Conference of UNESCO... - More

“It behoves the international community to bolster the role of UNESCO to fight the demons of the clash of civilization.” Such was the forceful message of Her Royal Highness, Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, as she spoke to the 34th General Conference of UNESCO to... - More

Ministers of Science from some 60 countries will meet in Paris on 26-27 October to debate how science and technology can contribute to sustainable development. They will also seek to define how UNESCO can best work with its Member States to meet their needs through international cooperation (Room X). The round table will take place during the 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference (16 October to 3 November).. - More

Working with civil society will be the theme of the “International Forum of Civil Society – UNESCO’s Partners” on 25 October, during the 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference (16 October to 3 November)... - More

H.M. Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden yesterday addressed UNESCO’s General Conference sounding the alarm about climate change: “We really have nowhere to go when our environment is threatened in such a global and total way [...] The environment is the ultimate condition for human survival on earth. It is the condition for civilization and all human activity”... - More

The President of Bulgaria, Georgi Parvanov, today addressed a rousing plea for cultural diversity and intercultural understanding at the opening of the 34th session of UNESCO’s General Conference... - More

Singapore has become UNESCO’s 193rd Member State, following the deposition in London today of its instrument of adhesion. This ceremony marks return of Singapore to UNESCO after 22 years absence... - More

UNESCO and the REPETTO Foundation have signed a partnership to support educational projects that involve dance as a means to integrate marginalized children... - More

The Belgium-based Claroline Project - The Claroline Consortium and Curriki: The Global Education and Learning Community, based in the U.S.A., have been named as the laureates of this year’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education. They were selected by the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, on the recommendation of an international jury... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, and the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, took part in the opening of the Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007 on the 20th of September... - More

“Illiteracy is not inescapable destiny. We can and we must fight and overcome it,” declared S.E. Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Prime Minister of Mali, at the close of the Regional Conference in Support of Literacy in Africa, held from 10 to 12 September in Bamako (Mali)... - More

Assessing and improving tsunami warning and mitigation in the Pacific will be the focus of discussions at the 22nd session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, when it meets in Guayaquil (Ecuador) this month (17-20 September)... - More

The next session of the 21st Century Talks on 13 September at UNESCO will debate the theme: "How to make education fairer". It will feature four guests: Daniel Cohen, Hannele Niemi, William S. Pollack and Adama Samassekou... - More

Alexander Marc is Director of the Roma Education Fund in Budapest, Hungary. As UNESCO hosts the expert meeting “Towards quality education for Roma children: transition from early childhood to primary education” co-organised with the Council of Europe, he reviews current issues around the subject... - More

The first inscriptions on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and on the Organization’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will take place in September 2009, according to the decision of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage whose 24 members ended their meeting in Tokyo today... - More

For the first time, Central American countries meet to discuss the means of fighting juvenile delinquency at a ministerial forum on 24 and 25 August in San José (Costa Rica) under the auspices of UNESCO. Representatives of five countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) will try to work out a common vision of the causes of violence among young people and the means to prevent it... - More

UNESCO will provide assistance to Peru’s Ministry of Education to assess the situation of schools in communities stricken by the earthquake, magnitude 7.9 on the Richter scale, which shook the Peruvian coast on 15 August, leaving some 500 people dead and over a thousand victims... - More

“We cannot in all conscience abandon millions of adults and young people to a fate of lifelong illiteracy. This is unacceptable in the 21st century,” declared the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, at the opening of the sub-regional conference addressing Literacy Challenges in East Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific: Building Partnerships and Promoting Innovative Approaches, organized by UNESCO in Beijing (China) 31 July to 1 August... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, is concerned over attacks perpetrated against the mountain gorillas of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and has called on the national authorities to adopt urgent measures to brings the killings to an end... - More

UNESCO paid a tribute to Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman this year by including the Ingmar Bergman Archives in its Memory of the World Register. The Ingmar Bergman Archives originate from the donation to the Swedish Film Institute in 2002 by the director of his entire personal collection which covers some 65 years of activity... - More

An international jury has selected 30 teams* from 31 countries as finalists in this year’s Mondialogo Engineering Award, organized by UNESCO and DaimlerChrysler. Every project team is made up of groups of students from two technical universities or colleges, with one group coming from a developing country and the other from an industrialized nation... - More

French professor Jean Malaurie will be designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, in charge of arctic polar issues, by UNESCO’s Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura during a ceremony to be held on 17 July (6.30 p.m.) at Organization Headquarters... - More

Justine Henin, UNESCO Champion for Sport, addressed on 9 July an audience of a hundred 13 to 14 year old athletes from more than 60 countries. She spoke to them of ethics in sport and of doping. These young tennis players are participating in the Junior Open of the “Stade Français Paris- BNP Paribas Cup” (9 - 15 July), the international tournament organized for the fifth consecutive year by the tennis section of the Stade Français under the auspices of UNESCO... - More

In order to avoid any damaging confusion, UNESCO wishes to reaffirm that there is no link whatsoever between UNESCO’s World Heritage programme, which aims to protect world heritage, and the current campaign concerning “The New 7 Wonders of the World”... - More

UNESCO’s Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura has renewed his request for the release of U Win Tin. The winner of the 2001 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize began on 4 July his 18th year in prison... - More

The Degas painting was a fake, so was the Klimt, but the South American artifacts and fossils and the 7,000 coins for sale on internet sites were absolutely genuine. Selling them, however, was considered as illicit traffic of cultural property and they were seized. This handful of examples, taken from a recent study conducted by Interpol in 56 countries, illustrates how wide-ranging the illicit traffic in cultural property through the internet has become... - More

UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today expressed his relief and delight over the liberation of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who had been held by kidnappers in Gaza (Palestinian Territories) for 114 days... - More

UNESCO and the Government of Iraq signed, on 24 June, a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the restoration project of the Al-Askari Holy shrine, in Samarra (Iraq), badly damaged by two attacks on 22 February 2006 and 13 June 2007... - More

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has signed a contract with Lattanzi SRL, an Italian construction company, for the re-erection of the Aksum obelisk on its original location in Ethiopia. The obelisk is the second largest stela on the Aksum World Heritage site... - More

In order to avoid any damaging confusion, UNESCO wishes to reaffirm that there is no link whatsoever between UNESCO’s World Heritage programme, which aims to protect world heritage, and the current campaign concerning “The New 7 Wonders of the World”... - More

Thirty-eight items of documentary heritage of exceptional value have just been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, bringing the total number of inscriptions since 1997 to 158. The UNESCO/Jikji Prize for 2007 was awarded to Phonogrammarchiv, an institute within the Austrian Academy of Sciences... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura has expressed his concern and outrage over the bombing today of the al-Askari shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam... - More

The China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe will give two performances of their show “My Dream”* at UNESCO Headquarters on 7 and 8 June.... - More

UNESCO is inviting young researchers in developing countries to apply for grants through the UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowship Programme, financed for the eigth time by Japan through funds-in-trust dedicated to the development of human resources... - More

Illegal registration fees, academic fraud, embezzlement, rigged calls for tender, and many other corrupt practices are seriously undermining education systems around the world according to a UNESCO report released today... - More

The China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe will give two performances of their show “My Dream”* at UNESCO Headquarters on 7 and 8 June.... - More

The World Heritage Committee will consider requests for the inscription of 45 new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List when it meets for its 31st session in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 23 June to 2 July... - More

Rigged calls for tender, embezzlement, illegal registration fees, academic fraud and various other corrupt practices are seriously undermining education systems around the world and costing governments billions of dollars, according to a UNESCO report to be launched in Paris on 6 June... - More

Hervé Le Bras, historian and demographer, is Directeur d’études at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales. He was one of the participants at the last session of "21st century talks," held at UNESCO on 22 May... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, will name Tatiana Golovin, the French tennis star, “Promoter of Gender Equality” for the UNESCO-Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Partnership for Gender Equality in a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters on 24 May (2 p.m., Salon Ségur). She will join Venus Williams, who was named the first global Promoter of Gender Equality for the programme last November... - More

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, will present a new report that focuses on the global situation of children with disabilities within the context of Education for All at a roundtable to be held at UNESCO Headquarters (24 May, 3-6 pm, room X) with the participation of the OECD and other partners... - More

The Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) will receive the 2006 UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education at a ceremony to be held on Africa Day, 25 May. The Minister of Education for South Africa, Naledi Pandor, will attend the ceremony which will take place at the University of Pretoria (Auditorium, Law Building, Faculty of Law,) at 3:30 p.m... - More

The outstanding works of filmmakers across 70 nations in the Asia Pacific region will reach new international audiences following a landmark cultural initiative involving CNN International, UNESCO and the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF)... - More

Africa will be celebrating its culture and artistic expression at UNESCO from 21 to 25 May. Organized by the Africa Group of member states to mark Africa Day (25 May), several events will highlight the wealth and diversity of the continent’s intangible heritage... - More

"Bam Model School Complex, Creating an Inclusive Learning Friendly Environment", a new inclusive school complex initiated by UNESCO was inaugurated on Monday 30 April in Bam, Iran, where a devastating earthquake in 2003 left over 18,000 students without classrooms and teachers... - More

High-level policy-makers and experts from the educational, scientific and business worlds will participate in the G-8-UNESCO World Forum on “Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development” at the Stazione Marittima Congress Centre, Trieste (Italy) on 10-12 May 2007. The forum is being held under the High Patronage of Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Republic of Italy, and will be opened by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura... - More

Following consultations with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsuura, and with his concurrence, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Professor Konrad Osterwalder of Switzerland as Rector of the United Nations University... - More

Furry friends Haneen and Kareem celebrated the launch of the latest season of Shara’a Simsim, the Palestinian version of Sesame Street, in Ramallah on 28 April... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, expressed his “profound sadness” at news of the death this morning of the great Russian cellist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Mstislav Rostropovich... - More

he Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has written to Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and to Jean-Marie Guehenno, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, asking for measures to stop the poaching and killing of endangered animals in the five World Heritage Sites of the DRC... - More

UNESCO's Executive Board has adopted a decision reaffirming the outstanding universal value of the Old City of Jerusalem and the need to protect and safeguard this World Heritage site. The decision followed a special meeting of the Board – whose 176th session has been underway in Paris since 10 April... - More

The threats posed by climate change to natural and cultural sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List are outlined in a new UNESCO publication, "Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage"*. The report features 26 examples - including the Tower of London, Kilimanjaro National Park and the Great Barrier Reef - case studies that are representative of the dangers faced by the 830 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has expressed his sorrow over the loss of life and the extensive damage caused by the tsunami that struck the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean this week, and offered UNESCO’s support in recovery efforts... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today condemned the mortar attack launched late last week on the Monastry of Decani and pledged UNESCO's continued support to ensure the preservation of the edifice... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, called today for the release of Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist abducted in Gaza on 12 March, and spoke out against the proliferation of hostage-taking involving media professionals... - More

ccepting the recommendation of an independent international jury of media professionals, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today designated Anna Politkovskaya, the late Russian journalist, as the laureate of the 2007 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize... - More

The Eighth International Symposium on Online Journalism will be held from 30 to 31 March 2007 in Austin, Texas (USA). The event is organized by Rosental Calmon Alves, UNESCO Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin... - More

UNESCO and Microsoft have joined forces to recognize and reward innovative teachers from Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the Innovative Teachers Forum 2007, which will take place at UNESCO Headquarters and the Louvre Museum in Paris on March 29-30... - More

Larry Scott, CEO of the Women’s Tennis Association Tour (WTA) Sony Ericsson, this week signed a partnership agreement with UNESCO to promote gender equality and women’s leadership in all spheres of society. The signing of this agreement between the world’s number one in women’s tennis competitions and UNESCO marks a new step in the Organization’s action to advance gender equality... - More

UNESCO and the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) signed a partnership agreement in Paris today, reinforcing the UNESCO- European Space Agency “Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies to Support the Monitoring of UNESCO Natural and Cultural Heritage”... - More

One out of five people in the world has no access to drinking water and 40% of the population lack the basic water treatment facilities, according to the second edition of the UN World Water Development Report* published in 2006. World Water Day, on 22 March, is an ideal opportunity to recall these statistics and to take action to improve them because the theme this year is Coping with Water Scarcity... - More

Some 1,400 Afghan ethnographic and archaeological objects, preserved since 1999 at the Afghanistan Museum-in-Exile (Bubendorf, Switzerland) under the aegis of UNESCO, were handed over to the National Museum in Kabul on 16 March. Some of the most exceptional pieces were presented at a press conference organized in the National Museum of Afghanistan on 17 March, at 10 a.m... More

The following statement is issued by the Chairman of UNESCO’s Executive Board, Mr Zhang Xinsheng. 1. The six Arab members of the Executive Board addressed a letter to the Chairman of the Executive Board on 14 February 2007, requesting that a special session of the Board be held on the subject of the activities under way at the site of the Old City of Jerusalem... - More

The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions will enter into force on 18 March, three months after the thirtieth instrument of ratification was deposited. To date, 52 States have ratified the Convention. In an unprecedented event, the European Union adhered to the convention as a regional organization of economic integration... - More

At its meeting of the 26th January the Maltese National Commission for UNESCO agreed to the request by a number of Maltese Youths to establish a Malta UNESCO Youth Association. This will be the second youth organisation in Malta to work for the benefits of Youth; the other being the Youth section of the UNESCO Club (Malta)... - More

Watch Swanee Hunt speak out on the important role that women play in peacemaking processes throughout the world in a special interview taped on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2007... - More

A new UNESCO project in Niger aims to empower some 2,500 young girls and women in one of the poorest countries on the planet... - More

Montenegro became the 192nd Member State of UNESCO when its Foreign Minister, Milan Rocen, signed the Organization's Constitution and deposited the instruments of acceptance on behalf of his government, on 1 March in London... - More

A project to establish an exchange platform for Portuguese-language public television broadcasters aims to favour communication, exchange, co-production and the promotion of dialogue and cultural diversity in Lusophone countries... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has decided to send a technical mission to the Old City of Jerusalem, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List and on the World Heritage in Danger List, to carry out a technical assessment of the works on the access to the al-Haram al-Sharif... - More

As press freedom advocates and media organizations were meeting to discuss challenges to press freedom and the new media at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, the Bureau of Public Information asked Leslie Harris, Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (Washington D.C.), whether the internet has been delivering on its early promise of providing universal freedom of expression to all people everywhere?... - More

During the first session of the Conference of Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport, held in Paris from 5-7 February 2007, China, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, South Africa and Spain have announced financial contributions to the Voluntary Fund... - More

Italy has announced that it will provide non-stop processing and coverage of seismic data in the seas around Europe. This data is essential for the detection of earthquakes that potentially generate tsunamis, and could significantly boost protection of Europe’s heavily developed and populated coastlines... - More

Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO today offered the Organization’s assistance in repairing damage caused by the fire that destroyed part of the historical city centre of Valparaiso, Chile, killing several people, on 3 February... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO has expressed his deep concern over the work initiated by the Israeli authorities on the site of the Old City of Jerusalem, which is protected by the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972). By virtue of this Convention, the site is inscribed on the World Heritage List and on the List of World Heritage in Danger... - More

UNESCO presents African Passages: an interactive educational resource about the legacy of the trans- atlantic slave trade... - More

There are different points of view on the universal mission of museums and the massive transfer of cultural properties over the course of history. Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, participated in a debate, “Memory and Universality: New Challenges Facing Museums” held at UNESCO Headquarters on 5 February... - More

One of the expected outcomes of the three day event that is sponsored by UNESCO is the establishment of a platform to advise African governments on policy implications regarding the ethical dimensions of the creation, distribution and use of information through ICTs. ... - More

One of the expected outcomes of the three day event that is sponsored by UNESCO is the establishment of a platform to advise African governments on policy implications regarding the ethical dimensions of the creation, distribution and use of information through ICTs. ... - More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launched a summary for policy makers of “Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis” at UNESCO Headquarters on 2 February.... - More

UNESCO has just launched a new News Service to better inform the public about its activities, events and action worldwide... - More

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, declared he was “deeply moved” by the death of Abbé Pierre, on 22 January 2007. “He was an indefatigable champion of human dignity,” declared the Director-General. “On numerous occasions, Abbé Pierre and UNESCO led this fight together. He will be sorely missed by all the men and women, regardless of social backgrounds, religious obedience or political affiliation, whom he led along the trail of commitment and solidarity.” ... - More

UNESCO and the government of Indonesia will bring together media organizations, NGOs and governmental representatives in Bali (Indonesia), from January 21 to 23, to lay the ground for a network to promote dialogue and mutual understanding by linking traditional and electronic media... - More

Stars at the Golden Globe film awards on 15 January 2007 will be wearing a special ring designed by renowned furniture and industrial designer Richard Hutten exclusively for Design 21: Social Design Network, a joint UNESCO/Felissimo venture... - More

Over 100 Iraqi journalists attended the International Conference on Freedom of Expression and Media Development in Iraq, at UNESCO Headquarters from 8 to 10 January. Emad Alkhafaji, spoke about his work in what has become the most dangerous country for journalists... - More

Over 100 Iraqi journalists attended the International Conference on Freedom of Expression and Media Development in Iraq, at UNESCO Headquarters from 8 to 10 January. Dr Selwa Zako, Senior media advisor with Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission (CMC) and editor-in-chief of monthly magazine, Tawasol (Communicate), spoke about her work in what has become the most dangerous country for journalists... - More

The first session of the Conference of States Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport will be convened by the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, from 5 to 7 February 2007 at Organization Headquarters. It will bring together the 41 States* that will have ratified the Convention by 31 December 2006 and will take place just a few days after its entry into force... - More

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