UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk present their Nobel Peace Prizes. Source: " South Africa: Zapiro - 'Zapping' for Democracy ,...

Source: Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler , June 24th, 2009 . "Righting what he calls a wrong of the Bush administration, Interio...

While UNESCO has facilities in some 59 other countries, it does not have a country, cluster or regional office in the United States nor are ...

According to the Associated Press : David Killion, a senior member of the professional staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was pic...

The Director-General of UNESCO has been notified that a DAC Working Party has decided to raise the UNESCO ODA coefficient from 25% to 44%, w...

Click on the table to enlarge it. The General Conference of UNESCO is to approve a program and budget for the next biennium when it meets in...

The member nations are in the process of electing a new Director General for UNESCO. The Director General's term of office is four years...

High Force, England’s biggest waterfall North Pennines AONB Geopark ©Elizabeth Pickett The Global Network of National Geoparks assisted by U...

Ivonne A-Baki, currently President of the Andian Parliament and a candidate for the position of Director General of UNESCO has provided this...

UNESCO's Associate Experts’ Scheme provides young professionals every year with the opportunity to contribute to international technical...

The UNESCO TRAFFICKING STATISTICS PROJECT is a first step toward clarifying what we know, what we think we know, and what we don't know ...

Location: The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Level: P4 Closing Date: August 15, 2009 For more info...

The Chairman of UNESCO’s Executive Board, Ambassador Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yaï (Benin), today made public the list of candidates to the po...

Sospeter Muhongo has been nominated by Tanzania as a candidate for the post of Director General of UNESCO. Here is some biographical informa...

Benita Ferrero-Waldner has been nominated by Austria as a candidate for the post of Director General of UNESCO. Here are some facts about he...

Ivonne Baki is a candidate for Director General of UNESCO, nominated by Ecuador. Attached is her biography. Personal Data Name: Leila Ivonne...

The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of development practitione...

Nominations are now closed for the post of Director General of UNESCO. Yojana Sharma has published an update of her earlier article , ident...

A reporter contacted me to ask what will be expected of the new Director General of UNESCO, to be elected in October. I will share my thinki...

UNESCO Chair International Scientific Conference on Technologies for Development Lausanne, Switzerland, 8-10 February 2010. Abstract deadlin...