UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

The Livanjsko Polje Ramsar site in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (photo by Tobias Salathé ) The World Bank Group and the Secretariat of the Convention...

On February 10, Dr. Elias Zerhouni met with UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and key UNESCO ambassadors and secretariat staff. In his me...

The Washington Scene recently published a profile of Esther Coopersmith , the longtime chair of the Advisory Committee of Americans for UNE...

Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, signed an agreement on 3 February with Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commissi...

I quote in full from a UNESCO webpage : Water was one of the most urgent priorities. UNESCO’s Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America, ...

The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation/School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the R. Lemaire Intern...

Source: Maxims News Network , February 4, 2010 "Concern about the unprecedented erosion of biodiversity was discussed at the event org...

SHS e-News 47 February 2010 www.unesco.org/shs/e-news UNESCO/ISESCO Arab Research-Policy Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (AR...

The University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia has launched the official 2010 World Press Freedom Day global conference website at www.w...

A World of Science (January–March 2010 ) IN FOCUS 2 Wildlife in a warming world NEWS 10 Science must be a priority, says new UNESCO head 10 ...

Laguna Hedionda, Los Lípez Ramsar site, Bolivia (Photo Omar Rocha) Best wishes to the Secretariat for the Ramsar Convention (Convention on ...

Buss Aldrin Gazes at Tranquility Base "On Friday, California became the first state to register the items at Tranquility Base as an off...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, yesterday in Paris acknowledged the Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UNESCO, David Killion. Sh...

Source: " Killing of Professor Sparks Fight Over His Science and His Politics ," Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Science 22 January 2010:...

2010 is the United Nations’ International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). In kicking off its year long program of events celebrating biodiversit...

Ambassador Killion sits at the head of the table Photo: Nicole Varchaver Ambassador David Killion, together with Kelly Seikman (the Director...

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I’m just so delighted to have this meeting and to have a chance to talk with the new director general about the upc...

I was fortunate enough yesterday to attend a reception to honor UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova hosted by the United Nations Foundation...

In a conference in 2008, a scientist from the University of Texas forecast the likelihood of a major earthquake in Haiti . We see now that h...

The Interview was held on January 20th at United Nations headquarters in New York.