UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

The 2009 Archives of the UNESCO Courier provides links to all the monthly issues of UNESCO's principle online magazine as well as to t...

This is a 20-minute film that describes the UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Program . The program is the flagship for...

On Thursday 29 October 2009, the outgoing Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, signed with Major General Don T. Riley, Deputy C...

The worldwide Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (ISARM) Initiative is an UNESCO and IAH led multi-agency effort aimed at i...

The brochure, entitled Fostering Information and Communication for Development , is a short introduction to the World Summit on the Informat...

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...

Image source: UNESCO From the cruel dictatorships of Latin America and Cambodia, the destruction of the Burgundian kingdom, and the Korean e...

The Constitution of UNESCO, signed on 16 November 1945. Yesterday Irina Bokova began her term of office as 10th Director General of the Org...

UNESCO will participate in the fourth Internet Governance Forum, to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 15 to 18 November 2009, to advoc...

Celebrated each year on 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development provides an opportunity to shine the spotlight on the contr...

UNESCO has published the announcements of the competitive recruitment of the following posts: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR AFRICA DEPARTME...

The world has lost one of its greatest thinkers with the death of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientifi...

The October-December issue of UNESCO's A World of Science is now out. Click here to download the issue as a PDF file.

The October-December issue of the lead social science online magazine of UNESCO has been published. Click here to download the PDF file.

Ten years after the first World Conference on Science (Budapest, 1999), the fourth World Science Forum will take place in Budapest (Hungary)...

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: ...