UN Audio Library

Education and cooperation in education are major issues on the international agenda and priorities in the work of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

While in affluent societies “the calorie is a nail for a coffin”, the majority has meals as “nourishing as Charlie Chaplin’s old boot”: A stirring report on the problem of mass hunger and global action to end it.

“Wires and waves” recalls the history of the International Telecommunication Union and the establishment of universal communication standards, from telegraphy equipment to outer space signals.

A programme on international cooperation in the field of health. Nations acting together for world health was a vision yet to achieve when the World Health Organization was set up in 1946.