Tag: UNESCO
Several sites in South Africa associated with the country’s long and bloody anti-apartheid struggle have recently been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. The system of institutionalized racial segregation came into being in South Africa following the Second World War. It was finally eradicated in the early […]
The UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a global virtual conference that brings together decision makers and professionals from the global education and sustainable development communities. It will be an opportunity to mobilize support for ESD for 2030, UNESCO’s program on ESD for the next decade, while raising global awareness of […]
According to the latest estimates of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), released on Friday, 258 million children and adolescents had no access to school in 2018, one-sixth of the world’s population. this age group (6-17 years). The UIS has also warned that for more than a decade, the school enrollment rate of children worldwide […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the destruction of parts of the ancient Syrian city of Bosra in fighting two days ago, alerting the world art market to potential trafficking in artefacts from the World Heritage site. “The destructions sustained by Bosra represent a further escalation in the horror of […]
2015 Theme: Science for a Sustainable Future; celebrating the UNESCO Science report Science will be essential to reach many of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, thus, to ensure a sustainable future. The UNESCO Science Report is one of the tools that countries can use to monitor progress towards the goals […]
It will cost $2.3 billion to send to school the 34 million children and adolescents of conflict–affected countries who are currently not attending educational institutions, which is 10 times the amount being received from humanitarian aid now, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new report released today. “Present targets […]
