UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) is an advisory body and forum of reflection. Si...

We join millions of people around the world in mourning the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. While Senator Kennedy is being remembered for hi...

It has been announced that Ivonne Baki, candidate for UNESCO Director General, is one of 12 people selected to receive the Americas Award f...

Source: :" Very, Very Lost in Translation ," by Raymond Stock, Foreign Policy , August 24, 2009. The UNESCO Executive Board is to...

The International Conference on Broadcast Media and Climate Change: A Public Service Remit will be held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, Fra...

The Prize consists of a sum of US$25,000 and a diploma to be awarded each year to each of two prize winners. The Prize is awarded to individ...

The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions ( IFLA ) has created this database...

One hundred years ago, there were few telephones, and only telephone connection within cities and between some large cities; the first trans...

UNESCO Director General Koïchiro Matsuura visited the United States in June, During that visit he met with senior American officials to disc...

The UNESCO Institute of Statistics is an important repository for international statistics on education, science, culture and communications...

"We were pleased and deeply honored to win a seat on the Human Rights Council itself, and we pledge to be strong advocates of the princ...

David Killion was sworn in yesterday as the new American Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UNESCO. The oath to support the Constitu...

Established with the objective of promoting nature conservation and sustainable development, the Biosphere Connections partnership was launc...

UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector Magazine Interview with Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Vice-President of the Permanent Forum of Arab-African...

An article in SciDev.Net states: The African Scientific Institute (ASI), a California-based networking organisation, recently hosted a con...

One of the problems faced by UNESCO is that its member nations do not make their assessed contributions to the Organization on time. The Uni...

Myrna Loy, the actress who won an Academy Award for her lifetime career achievement in films, became a member of the U.S. National Commissio...

Shirley M. Malcom, Head of Education and Human Resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was one of five jurors ...

Each year August 9th is dedicated to celebration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, an event proclaimed by the ...