UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

British writer Doris Lessing returns to her country of birth, Zimbabwe, and denounces our jaded world. Franco-Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo...

Laura Bush, Honorary Ambassador for the United Nations' Literacy Decade and a passionate promoter of literacy in the United States, look...

Sorry, I was not feeling well, and missed World Water Day for 2008, which fell this year on March 22. Go to the UNESCO website for World Wat...

It occurred to me on St. Patrick's Day that I might tell you a little about the McBride Report. it was one of the items identified as a ...

The decentralized agencies of the United Nations System have their own governance. The form of that governance varies from agency to agency....

In December, Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, awarded the Great Man-Made River International Water Prize to a research team co...

The next meeting of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO will be held on May 21-22, 2007. Planning is in progress now for that meeting.

Dr. Rita Colwell , a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for UNESCO , made this video as part of an effort broadly supported in th...

Study on national research systems, a meta-review: regional report on Sub Saharan Africa Study on national research systems, a meta-review: ...

The 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting is being held on 14-18 February 2008 in Boston. The theme for the meeting — "Science and Technology from ...

UNESCO regularly does evaluations of its programs. Recent evaluations of science programs include: Evaluation of UNESCO’s contribution to th...

Ambassadors Oliver and Landymore at the screening of “Amazing Grace.” © USUNESCO / Photo: Anne Turnacliff ...

UNESCO and Press Freedom In the past decade, more than 1000 media professionals have been killed in the exercise of their profession. There ...

Before and after the Banda Ache Tsunami UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) is coordinating an international effor...

UNESCO’s Anticipation and Foresight program is intended to strengthen the Organization’s intellectual, ethi...

The Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems was held in UNESCO headquarters in Paris, 16-18 January 2008. it provide...

There is a useful new website created by Don Osborn providing support for the International Year of Languages (2008). It is a temporary web...

The future of biosphere reserves was at heart of the third World Congress of Biosphere Reserves which took place in Madrid (Spain) from 4 to...

My last two posting were on the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program of UNESCO, the U.S. MAB Program, and U.S. Biosphere Reserves within the ...