UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Dr. Rita Colwell, a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for UNESCO, has been named a U.S. Science Envoy. The Science Envoy program...

The 5th meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 14 to 17 September 2010. It focused on the follo...

Frances Perkins was an interesting person. She was the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the Federal Government, serving for the entire ...

U.S. funds to UNESCO are allocated by the Congress There is a formula used by the United Nations and other agencies of the UN system to det...

The Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership (MD-AEP) is honoring Dr. Rita Colwell, this year's winner of the Stockholm Water Prize, at t...

An article on Social Network Analysis in The Economist states: Last year America’s army, which jointly funds SOMA with the air force, beg...

Water Project H2Ooooh! 3-D Animation/Cartoon - Gruppo Alcuni in collaboration with UNESCO Venice Office

The World Water Assessment Program, managed by UNESCO, has issued the Third United Nations Water Development Report . It is available onlin...

Irina Bokova was elected to the position of Director General of UNESCO in October 2009 by the General Conference of the Organization as th...

For example, the U.K. NatCom has the following working groups in the area of science : Working Group for Input to Development of UNESCO...

On Tuesday 31st August, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and the UNESCO launched a unique global University Twinning and ...

For a couple of decades I was involved in the management of grants programs that funded research in developing nations. One of the key issue...

An earlier photo of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Principle source for this post: "...

Asian sites win UNESCO world heritage status Inquirer.net -  Jul 8 2008    2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO Times of ...

I quote extensively from the New York Times article today on the flood in Pakistan: The destruction could set Pakistan back many years, i...

“By its decision to proclaim 23 August each year as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UNESCO ...

Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo (left above, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy) and Indian-American physicist Ennackal Chandy George Sud...

Following up a New Orleans conference in February 2010, eight scientists (six from the United States) have published a report titled " ...

The UNESCO Office Jakarta and the Regional Bureau for Science in Asia and the Pacific, which is also in Jakarta, publish the Science and Tec...