UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact ...

Jillian Banfield, UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science, of environmental science policy and management and of materials scie...

"Following the devastating tsunami that struck Japan, the U.S. and 32 other countries are preparing to participate in the first full-sc...

Jillian F. Banfield, a UC Berkeley biogeochemist, geomicrobiologist and professor of materials science and engineering, will receive two pre...

Source: The Associated Press via the Washington Post . UNESCO's chief says the organization is stopping all cooperation with Libya'...

"In May of this year, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and other UN organizations such as UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, are...

The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom has just completed a review of the multilateral agencies it has been fun...

UNESCO is inviting nominations for the fourth award of the UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize. This invitation is extended to all Member...

© UN Photo/Evan Schneider -  A view of heavy flooding caused by monsoon  rains in Punjab Province, Pakistan (2010) Last July’s catastrophic ...

Irina Bokova's, Director General of UNESCO, video message for the Opening of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) 2011.

The Official International Launch Ceremony for IYC 2011 will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 27-28 January 2011. The agenda ...

Preparations for the observance of Forests 2011 are taking place at the national, regional and international levels. To celebrate Forests...

Vol. 9, No. 1 January–March 2011 In focus      Where would we be without chemistry? news engineer shortage a threat to development, s...

Schönberg Hall at UCLA The Government of Austria has proposed the Arnold Schönberg estate for inclusion in the Memory of the World Regist...

Click here to go to the UNESCO Science Report 2010 website, from which you can download the report in any of several languages.

" Memory of the World " is UNESCO's program aiming at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library ...

UNESCO is holding an ‘ International Symposium on Freedom of Expression ‘ on 26 January 2011, with the support of the Swedish National Comm...

Deadline for Applications: April 20, 2011 The  Endangered Language Fund  provides grants for language maintenance and linguistic field work....