UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

The Conference of States Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport is taking place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris fro...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), UNESCO and the Intel Foundation have created a joint project to promote digital inclu...

Charles Kenny has an excellent article this month titled " Revolution in a Box " in Foreign Policy magazine. He points out that: ...

“…the time has come for the world to move in a new direction. We must embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual re...

Elizabeth Kelley-Kanick has been named the new Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. She was formally the Administr...

The number of researchers in developing countries jumped from 1.8 million to 2.7 million in five years (2002-2007), according to the new dat...

“It is my dream to nurture relations of perfect synergy between the Director-General and Member States, so as to move together towards the c...

The 35th Session of the General Conference today elected Irina Bokova of Bulgaria as the tenth Director-General of UNESCO. The investiture w...

Elaine Fuchs , Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor at Rockefeller University, will be the North American recipient of a 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO ...

and may not be posting for a couple of weeks. Expected return about October 12.

Irina Bokova UNESCO Chief designate David Dickson has an excellent editorial in SciDev.Net that concludes: Real change in science programm...

The saola , a species discovered in 1992 never seen in the wild by a scientist down to a couple of hundred or perhaps a couple of dozen anim...

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...