UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Francesco Bandarin mentioned in his talk to the Board of Directors of Americans for UNESCO that the new administration of UNESCO will give h...

The Board of Directors of Americans for UNESCO met yesterday. Francesco Bandarin, current director of the World Heritage Center and Assistan...

Member states of UNESCO are currently formulating suggestions as to the priorities for the next biennium. UNESCO has suggested that thes eva...

UNESCO is in the process of defining priorities for the next biennial budget and plan of action. It will do so within the priorities defined...

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman, recently wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter to fellow members of...

The year of 2010 marks a turning point for assessing the progress made towards WSIS implementation during the past five years and for propos...

More than 75 United Nations delegates, journalists and representatives of media advocacy groups attended the World Press Freedom Day luncheo...

The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO will host its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 and Thursday, May 27, 2010 at the Embassy Su...

Source: Nicholas C. Stern, The Frederick News Post , April 28, 2010 The UNESCO Center for Peace and Hood College hosted the April meeting of...

Israel’s foreign minister thanked Hillary Rodham Clinton for removing items critical of Israel from UNESCO’s agenda. The United States’ “str...

Liz Kanick, the Executive Director of the National Commission, has just confirmed that the public sessions of the meeting of the U.S. Nation...

The new Assistant Director-General for UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector will be Janis Karklins of Latvia. Currently Latvian Amb...

The Chilean journalist, Mónica González Mujica, a heroine of the struggle against dictatorship in her country, has been named laureate of th...

Irina Bokova, the new UNESCO Director General Yesterday we had a classroom exercise in the GWU graduate seminar on UNESCO focusing on the el...

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova has announced the new members of her senior staff: Deputy Director General: Getachew Engida Assistant D...

Contents Vol. 8 No 2 IN FOCUS 2. Eight predictions for 21st century conservation NEWS 10 Women laureates battle parasites and disease 10 UN...

The UNESCO Participation Program provides direct assistance to initiatives undertaken by Member States, in line with the priorities that the...

Students doing presentation on the UNESCO culture program The seminar on UNESCO offered in the International Education Program of George Was...