UN / CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
United Nations officials today highlighted the need to recognize the vital role of culture in poverty reduction and sustainable growth, and to ensure that it is integrated into the post-2015 development agenda. UNTV
United Nations officials today highlighted the need to recognize the vital role of culture in poverty reduction and sustainable growth, and to ensure that it is integrated into the post-2015 development agenda. UNTV
French President François Hollande received UNESCO's peace prize for action in Africa for taking action in January to end the control of insurgents in Northern Mali and bring peace and stability to the region. UNESCO
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commemorated World Press Freedom Day at the United Nations Headquarters. UNTV
Algerian Mustafa Cherif and the Arab British Centre in the United Kingdom received the 2013 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture on Thursday (25 April), in Paris. UNESCO
UNESCO says it will send a mission to Mali to assess damage to the World Heritage sites in Timbuktu and Gao, help with repairs and assist in capacity building for the community that has guarded ancient treasures for thousands of years. UNESCO / FILE
Some 1.7 million more teachers are needed to achieve universal primary education by 2015, the second of the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals, the heads of various United Nations agencies said today in a joint statement marking World Teachers’ Day. UNTV / FILE
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (26 September) announced that he has secured 1.5 billion US dollars in commitments for a new initiative to increase access to, and the quality of, education for children worldwide. UNTV
UNESCO today awarded its Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences to scientist from Egypt, Mexico and South Africa. UNESCO
The World Heritage Committee on 2 July condemned the destruction of World Heritage sites in Mali and called on UNESCO to create a new fund to help the country protect its heritage. UNESCO
The head of UNESCO today appealed for a stop to the destruction of historic landmarks at the World Heritage Site of Timbuktu in northern Mali, saying the acts were a “tragedy for the whole of humanity”. Meanwhile the World Heritage Committee announced the last of twenty-six new sites added to the list of World Heritage [...]