Tag: UNESCO

• Monday, July 2nd 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro and its spectacular landscape declared world heritage site

  

  Rio do Janeiro's iconic landscape, marked by soaring granite facades that drop into the ocean and white-sand beaches that go on for miles, is now an official world heritage site.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 22:01 UTC

  UN highlights role of press freedom as catalyst for social and political change

  

  United Nations top officials today May 3 highlighted the power of press freedom to spark social and political change and to hold governments accountable, stressing that this vital right must be ensured across the world by creating the conditions that allow journalists to perform their work safely.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 21:49 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day: “One news provider killed every five days”

  

  Today Amy 3, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and 6 citizen journalists have been killed since the start of 2012, many of them in war zones such as Somalia and Syria. This is a rate of one news provider killed every five days.

• Friday, February 10th 2012 - 01:21 UTC

  UN-backed marine expedition highlights impact of climate change in oceans

  

  A United Nations-backed scientific expedition which has been travelling the world’s oceans for almost three years is in New York seeking to raise public awareness of the impact of climate change in oceans.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 19:04 UTC

  Chilean education system tends to “exclusion and discrimination” says UNESCO

  

  The Chilean education system promotes inequality and exclusion according to a report from UNESCO regional office released in Santiago, based on comparing education legislation from Argentina, Uruguay and Finland.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 23:11 UTC

  Mexico’s mariachi music named to UNESCO list of “intangible cultural heritage”

  

  Mexico celebrated as mariachi music was named to UNESCO's list of “intangible cultural heritage” in need of preservation. The Mexican music was among the new entries chosen by envoys at a meeting in Indonesia to be inscribed on the UN cultural agency's list of intangible heritage items.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:48 UTC

  Canada freezes contributions to UNESCO, following vote on Palestine

  

  Canada will not contribute more to UNESCO to make up for a shortfall after the US cut its funding over the Palestinians joining the UN cultural body, Foreign Minister John Baird said Tuesday.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 21:23 UTC

  US stops funding of UNESCO following admission of Palestine

  

  United States said on Monday it had stopped funding UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency, following its vote to grant the Palestinians full membership.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 20:25 UTC

  Palestine becomes full member 195 of UNESCO (14 against, 52 abstentions)

  

  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO voted on Monday to admit Palestine as a full member of the Paris-based agency.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 21:30 UTC

  UNESCO drafts action plan to improve journalists’ safety and punish instigators

  

  Participants at a UN forum that met in Paris have drafted an action plan to improve the safety of journalists and ensure that crimes committed against them do not go unpunished.