UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Have a thought you want to send someone? Want to bring encouragement to loved ones to ring in the New Year? UNESCO has free education-themed...

Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth This UNESCO card recognizes that 2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy and...

The process for the election of the next Director General of UNESCO is spelled out in a recent report by UNESCO's Executive Board . Memb...

According to Topposts , Musa Bin Jaafar Bin Hassan has been nominated by Oman for the post of Director General of UNESCO. According to Wikip...

According to the Associated Press , Pope Benedict XVI in marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo's use of a telescope saluted UNESCO...

Source: " Settling scores ," Nevine El-Aref, Al Ahram (Cairo), 18-24 December 2008, Issue No. 926. I quote: It was not an easy wee...

I have posted links to more than 300 references relating to UNESCO on delicious.com, a social bookmarking cite. You are more than welcome t...

Source: Focus News Agency Bulgaria’s ambassador to France, Irina Bokova, has presented her candidature for the position of UNESCO director-g...

Rosental C. Alves, the Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected p...

The United States National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will conduct a meet...

Sixty years of views on the world The UNESCO Courier is celebrating its 60th anniversary. An opportunity to explore the present while looki...

Here are a couple of very useful resources free for you to download: The UNESCO Thesaurus is widely used to standardize the terminology used...

Jane Lubchenco is to head up President Obama's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admninistration (NOAA). She is an outstanding choice wi...

December 18 marks International Migrant Day; it also marks the third anniversary of a global radio marathon that highlights the struggles an...

Christine Alfsen informed me that the City of New Orleans has endorsed the project "New Orleans: a Model Urban Biosphere". Ms. Alf...

Sufferers have a human right to access life-saving science Flickr/Julien Harneis David Dickson wrote an editorial for SciDev.Net making the...

Unfinished Business was commissioned by UNESCO’s Slave Route project and prepared by Joel Quirk of the Wilberforce Institute for the study ...

Reporters Without Borders last week launched the "Online Free Expression Day" . “From now on, we will organise activities every 12...

Journalists from across Central Asia learned the basics of covering environmental issues on the web at a workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in ...