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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

UNESCO Remembers Assassinated Journalists

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This UNESCO webpage is dedicated to journalists who were assassinated in the exercise of their profession. It remembers their contribution ...
Monday, October 09, 2006

“BASIC SCIENCES: THE SCIENCE LEVER FOR DEVELOPMENT”

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John H. Marburger III, Chair of session 1 of the Ministerial Round Table Dr. Marburger is President Bush' Science Advisor. Read the Repo...

Unesco should plan members' strategies and set holistic goals for science

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Read the full piece by David Dickson in the Cape Times of October 09, 2006. "The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Or...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

UNESCO and the Millennium Development Goals

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Check out the UNESCO website on its support for the MDGs . World leaders gathered at the Millennium summit agreed on these goals six years a...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

UNESCO Institute of Statistics Bulletin on Science and Technology Statistics

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One of the more important functions of UNESCO is the collection of international educational, scientific and cultural statistics. Without th...

Debate on Challenges, Roles and Functions of UNESCO

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UNESCO's Executive Board is to hold a public debate on the challenges, roles and functions of UNESCO tomorrow, October 4, 2006. The deba...

Post-conflict reconstruction

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Aftermath of the Sri Lanka tsunami © UNESCO This week, as part of its 60 week celebration of its six decades of service, UNESCO is highlight...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Harvard's UNESCO Chair Slams Media Silence

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Read the full article in the Harvard Crimson : "UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights Amii Omara-Otunnu ’80 accused the media of sel...

"The Net for Journalists: A practical guide to the Internet for journalists in developing countries"

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This training handbook is a resource (with a printed manual and a CD) designed for both print and broadcast journalists and journalism stude...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

THE UNITED STATES AND UNESCO: Beginnings (1945) and New Beginnings (2005)

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Click here to download the 36 page Word for Windows document. Ray Wanner, a Director of Americans for UNESCO, has many years of experience ...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

"Towards an Improved Strategy of Support to Public Service Broadcasting"

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Evaluation of UNESCO’s Support to Public Service Broadcasting, 2002-2005 Styles Associates Inc., June 2006. From the Executive Summary : ...

UNESCO and Non Governmental Organizations

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Download "UNESCO and NGOs" (two pages in PDF format). Since its foundation, UNESCO has given great importance to partnership with...

UNESCO: What It Is. What It Does.

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This nine page, easy to read brochure provides a great introduction to UNESCO. It describes its history, and each of its five major program...

"Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security"

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Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security by A. Lawrence Chickering, Isobel Coleman, P. Edward Haley, and Emily...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

New Layout of US-UNESCO Website from Paris

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The United States delegation to UNESCO in Paris has an informative website . It has recently been revamped, and looks better than ever! I es...
Monday, September 25, 2006

"Social Transformation in an Information Society: Rethinking Access to You and the World"

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Download the entire report. by William H. Dutton, UNESCO, 2004. ‘While technology shapes the future, it is people who shape technology, and ...

UNESCO's Basic Texts on the Information Society

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Download the entire document. (PDF, 116 pages.) UNESCO Publications for the World Summit on the Information Society, 2003. On the occasion ...

"Status of Research on the Information Society"

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Download the book. (PDF file, 81 pages.) Edited by Kwame Boafo, UNESCO Publications for the World Summit on the Information Society, UNESCO...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Report on the 1st International Forum on the Social Science – Policy Nexus

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The 1st International Forum on the Social Science – Policy Nexus was held in February 2006 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). More than 2000 parti...

21st Century Talks: "Knowledge-Sharing: Always Tomorrow’s Concern?"

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The topic of the next 21st Century Talks is at the core of the UNESCO World Report “Towards Knowledge Societies”. Three outstanding personal...