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The Director-General attended the formal session of the UN Chief Executives Board (CEB) spring session which opened today in Madrid. Prior to that, the Director-General co-chaired with the Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in the presence of UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, ... More...

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. The ... 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 basic education (1) in low-income countries by the ... 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 between UNESCO and Samsung that aims to enhance ... 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. An integral part of UNESCO’s General Conference, ... 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. Ziauddin Yousafzai, ... 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 between Egypt and UNESCO has always been very strong part of the Organization’s history, ... More...