UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Nature magazine, one of the world's most influential scientific journals, has published an editorial subtitled "The new director-g...

The Eiffel Tower out the window of UNESCO's 13th floor ladies' room. Susan Moeller has an article in The Huffington Post based on ...

In the fifth round of voting of the Executive Board, the Bulgarian Ambassador to France and Permanent Representative to UNESCO has been sel...

Tomorrow will be the fifth and final round of voting for the new Director General of UNESCO. The Executive Board has voted four times, reduc...

The United States is pleased to join the rest of our colleagues on the Human Rights Council. It is with a sense of mutual respect that we ta...

The United Nations and this month’s General Assembly offer us a venue and a forum for nations to work together to live up to that founding c...

The new edition of The UNESCO Courier highlights astronomy in this International Year of Astronomy. 400 years ago Galileo took the dark sta...

The UNESCO Executive Board begins its meeting next week at which it will choose a new Director General for the Organization. The new Directo...

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...