UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

The objective of the Fellowship programme is to contribute to enhance knowledge and understanding between peoples and societies from Mus...

Application Deadlines: Spring 2012: Monday, February 6, 2012 Fall 2012: Monday, September 24, 2012 Spring 2013: Monday, Februa...

UNESCO and the world’s largest technical professional association, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), today sig...

Statement by the Director-General of UNESCO on Withholding of Funds by the United States. Text available here:  http://www.unesco.org/...

Jaramillo, who is from Panama, is able to fund some of her important Ph.D. research as a result of being awarded a prestigious fellowshi...

February 13th is a date proclaimed by UNESCO to celebrate radio broadcast, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters a...

UNESCO begins mapping groundwater in January in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, in order to bring the population a sustainable wa...

I quote from the New York Times : Pope John XXIII, while an official observer of the Holy See at the United Nations Educational, Soc...

I previously posted links to several articles and opinion pieces ( here and here ) on the vote to admit UNESCO to membership in UNESCO and...

The law which now requires U.S. funds to be withheld from UNESCO should be repealed or revised because it is outdated, ineffective, unneces...

The General Conference of UNESCO last month voted by a two-thirds majority to admit Palestine as a member state. The United States opposed ...

For the first time, the World Science Forum has adopted a declaration . Acknowledging that the landscape of science is changing rapidl...

The global humanitarian organization Rotary and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education are teaming up to tackle the world's wa...

UNESCO continues to deal with the recent loss of U.S. funding. Science Magazine recently did a piece describing how the loss of US ...

This past Monday 11/28 about 85 members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and friends of the Commission met for our annual meet...

Photo courtesy of Laura Engel The United States National Commission for UNESCO met on Monday, November 28th at George Washington Univ...

Patrice Lyons , the Secretary-Treasurer of Americans for UNESCO, appeared this October in a panel discussion of the Internet of Things (...

Eric Woodard and Kelly Siekman from the State Department addressing the Board Board members shown on right are Roger Coate, Patrice Lyon...

The General Conference of UNESCO has voted to accept Palestine as a Member State of the Organization. U.S. law requires that if a specializ...