UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

On Monday 13 March, Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO, opened the first meeting of the Committee reviewing UNESCO's scie...

This Word document compiles the findings and recommendations of evaluations carried out on activities and programs of UNESCO's Major Pr...

An overall review of UNESCO’s Major Program II -Natural sciences- and Major Program III -Social and Human Sciences- has been initiated. The ...

Edited by R. Boelens, M. Chiba and D. Nakashima. Knowledges of Nature 2, UNESCO: Paris, 177 pp., March 2006. To request a copy, email - sc_l...

UNESCO has for some time had created a website communicating about its actions following up the WSIS. It has now opened an online platform ...

Go to the conference website. This International Workshop was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 1-2 September 2005. It was an importan...

UNESCO has launched a revised and improved the Education For All media training and resource kit titled “Education Makes News”. Education fo...

A major reason that the United States withdrew from UNESCO in the 1980's was the anger generated by UNESCO's discussions of a New Wo...

Read the obituary in the Washington Post , March 10, 2006. Read the obituary in the New York Times , March 7, 2006. Philip Hall Coombs, 90, ...

Go to UNESCO's website for the World Day for Water 2006. The United Nations General Assembly has declared that 22 March of each year is ...

Read the full story on the Bahrain News Agency website. UNESCO and Japan have signed two agreements to establish an international center in ...

Go to the Conference website. This Symposium is is to take place 9-10 March 2006 in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters. It has been organized ...

Women diplomats in China appointed counselors for the UNESCO Chair Program on media and gender. Photo: CRIENGLISH.com A celebratory event to...

Read the book online. UNESCO-ROSTE launched its Science Policy Series with a study entitled 'Science, Technology and Economic Developmen...

"America's Place in the World 2005: An Investigation of the Attitudes of American Opinion Leaders and the American Public About Int...

The African Union held a Summit meeting in Khartoum, Sudan in January. UNESCO provided a documentary exhibition describing the works of UNE...

Askariya Before the Bombing The bombing on February 22 of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq was a purposefully outrageous act, in the origi...

Go to the report's UNESCO website. Summary: "This work is the first result of the merger of two well-known initiatives, ITU’s Digit...

Since 1992, UNESCO has worked to strengthen higher education in the developing world through the UNITWIN and UNESCO Chairs programs . These ...

UNESCO management, like that of other multilateral agencies, is concerned that the organization maintains a fair balance of staff from its m...