Thirty-two countries* will participate in a full-scale tsunami alert exercise in the Caribbean on 20 March 2013. The goal is to test the reaction capacity in countries of the Caribbean and adjacent regions, including the East Coast of Canada and the United States, the Gulf of Mexico and Bermuda. ... More...

Funding gap for education growing, according to new figures released by UNESCO Study also proposes ways to close New calculations by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report reveal that the $16 billion annual external funding gap to achieve ... More...

15 March, Ha Noi - Today, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), UNESCO and Samsung held a launching ceremony for an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiative to be implemented in Viet Nam. The initiative is part of a global agreement ... More...

For the first time in its 14-year history, the UNESCO Youth Forum is designed by young people. Through a series of online surveys and consultations, young women and men from all regions of the world can decide on the Forum’s thematic agenda, preparatory process, format and overall programme. ... More...

On 9 March, UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, took part in the Crans Montana Women’s Forum Special Programme, dedicated to “Fighting Poverty and the issue of Malnutrition”. During the event, the Director-General presented the Crans Montana “Prix de la Fondation 2013” to Malala Yousafzai. ... More...

What have we learned since the year 2000, when world leaders gathered in Dakar to commit to achieving six Education for All (EFA) goals by 2015? In advance of a major UNESCO/UNICEF global meeting on Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda (18 -20 March 2013, ... More...

Venice, 7 March 2013 - The travelling exhibit “Imagining the Balkans. Identities and Memory in the long 19th century”, a flagship initiative coordinated by UNESCO with the cooperation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the International ... More...

During her meeting with the Prime Minister of Egypt, Dr. Hisham Qandeel, the Director-General, Irina Bokova, underscored UNESCO’s commitment to Egypt and expressed her strong support for Egypt’s current transformation process towards democracy. “Cooperation ... More...

Algerian academic and essayist Mustafa Cherif and the Arab British Centre (UK) are the winners of the 2013 UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture. They were designated by an international jury of experts for their commitment to disseminate Arab culture globally. ... More...