UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Last week, Dick Arndt and Ray Wanner led our UNESCO class discussing the history of the organization and the role played by Americans in its...

Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura will be prominently participating at this year's World Economic Forum, which began yesterday and will...

Source: Elana Schor, TalkingPointsMemo (TPM), January 23, 2009. Dr. Kathie Olsen has resigned her politically appointed position of Deputy ...

Al Kamen in his "In the Loop" column in the Washington Post yesterday suggested that Caroline Kennedy be appointed Ambassador to...

On January 18th the Director General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, briefed the Executive Board on the state of the Organization's progra...

OECD Conference Centre - Paris, France 28-30 January 2009 This is a Workshop to examine ways in which knowledge contributes to innovation, e...

Alex Zemek yesterday sent the following message to members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO: Today is my last day as the E...

2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species . There a...

Mural in UNESCO Headquarters Patrick Lagèsm © UNESCO Yesterday I wrote an entry for my blog, Thoughts About K4D , about the complementary wa...

Louise Oliver, Ambassador to UNESCO as a Bush administration appointee, is leaving that office. The Obama administration is to appoint a rep...

Tomorrow is the last day to nominate candidates for the 2009 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize . Organizations and institution...

UNESCO is the lead agency of the United Nations system for education, natural and social sciences, culture and communication and information...

The Bangkok office of UNESCO has recently published three new reports encouraging a human rights approach: Undertaking a Human Rights-Based...

In a joint statement, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura and UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Arme...

On January 6, 2009, President George Bush signed a proclamation “to protect three beautiful and biologically diverse areas of the Pacific Oc...

an analysis of correlations between freedom of the press and the different dimensions of development, poverty, governance and peace" Gu...

The UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership (GRASP) and the World Association of Zoos an...

An important aspect of diplomacy is the peaceful negotiation of disputes. There are many disputes that concern the exploitation of resources...

UNESCO is Recruiting for the position of Executive Director of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission . The person selected will wor...

There is a good article by Gerald Hane in the Fall 2008 issue of Issues of Science and Technology , a journal of the National Academies, wi...