UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has appointed New York Irish-American attorney Brian O’Dwyer as Commissioner of the United States Nationa...

2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program . Among planned activities is a web-based forum, ...

UNESCO  recently announced  that three Americans would be honored with the  IOC  50th Anniversary Commemorative medal for their exemplary d...

Forest Whitaker with UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will designate American actor, director a...

The U.S. Mission to UNESCO sat down with George Papagiannis, the Officer in charge of the UNESCO Office in Baghdad, to find out how he ended...

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...