UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Last year Seán Ó Siochrú published a chapter on UNESCO in the Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report . The report provides an overvie...

The International Institute for Sustainable Development has published a new report titled How Information and Communications Technologies Ca...

Two students in my class last night presented a synopsis of their project on UNESCO's role in emergency education. They emphasized educa...

Hillary Clinton America is stronger when we lead the world through alliances and build our foreign policy on a strong foundation of bipartis...

UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP) has released a paper providing a basic conceptual framework for measuring information lite...

At the end of last year, UNESCO announced a new partnership agreement with Hewlett Packard to strengthen their collaboration around existing...

Since 1996, World Book and Copyright Day has been celebrated on 23 April to honor books, widely recognized as invaluable cornerstones of soc...

Beauty transcends national borders, and a trip to the hairdresser is a ritual in almost every country in the world. When UNESCO was looking ...

Koïchiro Matsuura (Japan) has been Director-General of UNESCO since November 15, 1999. He was reappointed by the Organization's General...

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the IODE (International Oceanogr...

Monday's class on UNESCO, focusing on the changes for the future, was very thought provoking. There was general agreement, I believe, th...

UNESCO is chartered with huge responsibilities, but shackled with a small budget -- on the order of US$300 million per year. The United Nati...

Last night we held a panel discussion in our graduate class on UNESCO. The class focused on UNESCO's future in the 21st century. The dis...

Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson write in The Washington Post (April 13, 2008) : For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialist...

Within the Frame of UNESCO Major Program II - Natural Sciences, UNESCO's Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe (BRESCE) set ...

The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO will meet by conference call on Wednesday, April 23, at 11a.m. The meeting of this advisory committe...

2008 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize awarded to Mexican reporter Lydia Cacho Ribeiro Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, the recipient of this yea...

What should be the United States position with respect to UNESCO as we enter the 21st Century? UNESCO seeks to build the defenses of peace i...

UNESCO still reflects the management systems of the time it was created in the aftermath of World War II. It is time to reorganize UNESCO, t...

UNESCO should begin program of international conferences, involving intellectual leaders from all over the world, under the title of The UNE...