UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications

I recently had the pleasure of spending the New Year in the Pacific Northwest.  During my time there, I traveled along th...

Source: " A Snapshot of R&D Expenditure ", UNESCO Institute for Statistics Source: " Regional density of researc...

In the latest issue of  A World of Science , a group of experts on water politics provide an overview of the issues likely to dominate th...

On the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2012, UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova and the Mayor of the City of Bilbao Mr Iñaki Azk...

This is an update on a recent post . The United States Government has withheld its funding from UNESCO since last year. It is now time t...

Flooded homes in Tuckerton, N.J., on Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy   Hurricane Sandy recently provided a vivid demonstration of the vu...

Development of a new irrigation well in west-central Florida triggered hundreds of sinkholes over a 20-acre area. The sinkholes ranged i...

U.S. libraries advancing programs that cut across at least three of UNESCO’s five sectors (education, natural science, social science, cult...

From the statement as delivered on October 8, 2012: The United States remains a full and active members of the Organization.  President...

The United States Government has withheld its funding from UNESCO since last year. It is now time to take action to encourage the governmen...

The International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University (IIP) was approved last year to become the second UNESCO Category II institute...

The award ceremony of the 2012 UNESCO/Bilbao Prize will be held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on Monday 10 December – Human Rights Day...

Today, November 16, UNESCO marks its 67th birthday. In 1945, UNESCO was created in the firm belief of nations, forged by two World Wars ...

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More than 600 journalists and media workers have been killed in the last ten years. In other words, on average every week a journalist ...

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has sent America’s newly re-elected president a message congratulating him on his decisive ...

The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO will host its Annual Meeting on Monday, November 26, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. E.S.T. The ...

I quote from  an article  in the  Chicago Tribune : UNESCO is in its "worst ever financial situation" after its biggest contr...

Challenges Facing our Global Society Why the United States & UNESCO Must Work Together to Address Them George Papagiannis ...