For years science has recognized that we have two active physical strands of DNA. We also have a further ten energetic DNA strands which have been dormant within the Human Being for many centuries. These dormant strands of DNA have been discovered by scientists, More...

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, a special working meeting on the review of the UN Chief Executives Board mechanisms. ... 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 exercise was organized under the auspices of UNESCO’s ... 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 2015 target date has widened to $26 billion over the last three years. ... 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 education system responses to contemporary challenges to sustainable development. ... 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, the Youth ... 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, Malala Yousafzai’s father, received the Prize on behalf of his daughter. ... 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, Dakar, Senegal) Olav Seim, Director of the EFA Global Partnerships Team, explains all in an interview. ... 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 Committee for Exhibitions and Exchange (ICOM/ICEE), is opening in Ljubljana (Slovenia) at the National Museum of Slovenia, ... 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,” said Irina Bokova. ... 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. The Prize will be awarded by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, in a ceremony at the Organization’s Headquarters on 25 April. ... More...

She will take part in a number of events within the framework of the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), including the opening plenary session, two UNESCO side events on “Prevention of Gender-based violence through Education” and “Safety of Women Journalists”, as well as a CSW side event entitled “From resolution to elimination: Plans to intensify ... More...

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Radio China International (RCI), Monte-Carlo Doualya (MCD), Radio Exterior d’España (REE), Radio France international (RFI), Radio Orient (RO) and Voice of Russia radio (VoR) will be broadcasting some programmes from UNESCO Headquarters on the occasion of World Radio Day, on 13 February. More...

Over a billion people - approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population - live with a disability of some sort. Including persons with disabilities in all aspects of social life is a major challenge. UNESCO is particularly concerned about ensuring their access to quality education on the one hand and information and knowledge on the other. “The ... More...

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, expressed her deep sadness at the passing of the Egyptian writer and intellectual, Milad Hanna, who died on Tuesday, 27 November, at the age of 88. "Milad Hanna carried the humanist conscience of a multicultural Egypt, united in all its diversity. He placed his immense culture at the service of dialogue ... More...