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Monday, October 11, 2010

What Does UNESCO Do?

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Every Day UNESCO PROMOTES EDUCATIN FORALL, now impacting 1.5 billion children, youth and adults Monitors World Heritage properties in 151 c...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

A Role for UNESCO Assuring the Ethical Treatment of Laboratory Animals

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Source: " ANIMAL RESEARCH: Long-Fought Compromise Reached On European Animal Rules ," Gretchen Vogel, Science 24 September 2010: ...

U.S. Prize Winner May Hold Promise for UNESCO Tsunami Warning System

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Liquid Robotics Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., won the Wall Street Journal Technology Award in the category of Robotics for developing ...
Friday, October 01, 2010

UNESCO and the Smithsonian sign a Memorandum of Understanding for cultural and natural heritage

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On 17 September, UNESCO Assistant Director General for Culture Francesco Bandarin signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding with Franc...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Rita Colwell Named Science Envoy

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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...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

UNESCO contributes to the fifth Internet Governance Forum

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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...

Membership in the ILO as a Precedent for Membership in UNESCO

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Frances Perkins was an interesting person. She was the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the Federal Government, serving for the entire ...
Friday, September 10, 2010

U.S. Financial Contributions to UNESCO

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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...
Thursday, September 09, 2010

Event to Honor Rita Colwell

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The Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership (MD-AEP) is honoring Dr. Rita Colwell, this year's winner of the Stockholm Water Prize, at t...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Editorial: UNESCO should investigate Social Network Analysis as a tool for Development

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An article on Social Network Analysis in The Economist states: Last year America’s army, which jointly funds SOMA with the air force, beg...
Monday, September 06, 2010

THE LIFE OF WATER. WATER WHICH GIVES LIFE - Water Project H2Ooooh!

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Water Project H2Ooooh! 3-D Animation/Cartoon - Gruppo Alcuni in collaboration with UNESCO Venice Office
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Water in a Changing World

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The World Water Assessment Program, managed by UNESCO, has issued the Third United Nations Water Development Report . It is available onlin...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

Recommended: A Profile of UNESCO's Chief, Irina Bokova

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Irina Bokova was elected to the position of Director General of UNESCO in October 2009 by the General Conference of the Organization as th...
Friday, September 03, 2010

The U.K. National Commission for UNESCO is more active than the U.S. NatCom

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

FIP-UNESCO University Twinning Network for Pharmacists formally Approved by UNESCO

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

A Comment on the Ethics of Research: A Role for UNESCO

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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...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

UNESCO's History

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The Controversy over a proposed UNESCO Science Prize

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An earlier photo of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Principle source for this post: "...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Public Interest in UNESCO

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Asian sites win UNESCO world heritage status Inquirer.net -  Jul 8 2008    2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO Times of ...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Donate to UNESCO to help it help Pakistan Recover from the Floods

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