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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Facts and figures on UNESCO’s reform

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UNESCO defines a budget covering two years of operation. The budget in the above graph are in millions of US dollars. The budget defined...

UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy

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UNESCO will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open license. Followin...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

A New Video on UNESCO's History and Programs

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Published on Jun 14, 2013 An overview of the principal events that helped create UNESCO.  In 1945, UNESCO was created in order to ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Sixty Years of Science at UNESCO 1945-2005 http://j.mp/13BdiD1

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This book is now available in PDF format online, free.
Monday, June 10, 2013

Eleanor Roosevelt & Human Rights

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When Eleanor Roosevelt was chairing the United Nations Committee that was writing the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, UNESCO was ...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

From the U.S. National Committee for the Geological Sciences

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Facilitating International Cooperation: The IGCP Provides Grants to Scientists The USNC for Geological Sciences functions as the U.S. foc...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

The CRS has made a report on UNESCO for the U.S. Congress.

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Luisa Blanchfield and Marjorie Ann Browne of the Congressional Research Service have produced a report on UNESCO for the U.S. Congress. T...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Just published: 2012-2013 map of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves

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The new 2012-2013 map of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves shows the worldwide distribution of the 610 biosphere reserves locat...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Tracking the Election of the UNESCO Director General

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Global Memo  has begun to track information on the election of the Director General of UNESCO which is to take place this Fall.  Click here...

Video: UNESCO's Priorities for the XXI Century

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Video: UNESCO's History

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Statement by U.S. Ambassador David Killion to the 191st Executive Board

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"My Administration continues to work with our Congress to resolve the issue so that we can meet our commitments to UNESCO.   Of course...

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning

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The Harriet Tubman Institute and the Slave Route Project have announced the launching on 16 April at UNESCO headquarters a new title in ...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Two Important UNESCO Documents

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Americans for UNESCO resolution to restore US UNESCO funding  http://j.mp/15aXUS9 U.S. Congressional Research Service 2013 report on UNES...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

The United States Government Should Restore Funding to UNESCO

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Countries that have recognized the State of Palestine . Source: Night w The United States policy is that a two state solution is neede...
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Kensington Maryland Celebrates UNESCO's International Day of the Book

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Read more about the Kensington celebration! Read more from UNESCO
Saturday, April 13, 2013

UNESCO should get more emotional and less cerebral! -- the need for peace demands it do so.

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed...... The States Parties t...
Saturday, April 06, 2013

Successful Caribbean test demonstrates progress in regional tsunami readiness

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Over 44,000 people from 30 Members States and 15 of the territories* in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions participated in the second full...

Allison Sharpe Wright Appointed Executive Director of the National Commission for UNESCO

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

U.S. Government Scientist Wins UNESCO Prize

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Professor Deborah JIN is a 2013 laureate of the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. Professor Deborah Jin and her team invented an i...