Tag: UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• Monday, July 16th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Iconic Taj Mahal: “either you demolish it or you restores it” India's Justices tell government

  

  India’s most famous landmark, Taj Mahal, is being threatened with demolition and shut down if the government continues to fail to address its worrying changing color, the country’s top court has warned.

• Thursday, May 4th 2017 - 07:56 UTC

  Press Freedom Day: In 'post truth' era, leaders must defend objective, independent media

  

  In a “post-truth” world with “fake news” on the rise, and media accountability and credibility falling under question, free, independent and professional journalism has never been more important, the United Nations today said.

• Friday, October 14th 2016 - 15:29 UTC

  Unesco draft on Jerusalem holy sites triggers strong criticism from Israel

  

  Unesco, the United Nations’ cultural agency on Thursday passed a draft resolution that played down Jewish ties to religious sites in Jerusalem, in a decision Israel called “absurd.” The resolution from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or Unesco, heavily criticized Israel’s actions toward holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City.

• Friday, September 16th 2016 - 07:21 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories Marine Protection Areas to double in four years

  

  Speaking ahead of “Our Ocean” conference in Washington DC, Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan announced plans to double the area of ocean under marine protection around the UK Overseas Territories to around four million square kilometers, greater than the landmass of India.

• Monday, July 6th 2015 - 00:22 UTC

  Ex-Anglo abattoir complex in Fray Bentos joins Unesco's World Heritage List

  

  UNESCO's World Heritage Committee approved the inscription of four cultural sites on the World Heritage List: Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape in Uruguay; Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining in Japan, Ephesus in Turkey and Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System in Mexico. The Committee also approved the extension of Spain’s Routes of Santiago de Compostela with the addition of the “Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain”.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 06:07 UTC

  “Let Journalism Thrive”, says UN on Freedom of Expression Day

  

  Freedom of expression and press freedom are critical to the successful implementation of good governance and human rights around the world, top United Nations officials declared today as they inaugurated the 2015 edition of World Press Freedom Day with a reminder that both freedoms were “essential” for the shaping of a new global sustainable development agenda.