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Traffickers abusing online technology, UN crime prevention agency warns
UNODCContainment measures to control the spread of the virus meant that people spent much more time online, especially children since schools were closed 30 October 2021Law and Crime Prevention Human traffickers who trick&…
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Journalists who ‘speak truth to power’ recognized with Nobel Peace Prize
Euku via Wikimedia Commons/UNESCODmitry Muratov (left) and Maria Messa were jointly award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. 8 October 2021Human Rights Two campaigning journalists were awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize on…
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Biosphere reserves: Fifty years of celebrating life
Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea, Mount Huangshan in China, the Saloum Delta in Senegal, Lac Saint-Pierre in Canada, and the São Paulo Green Belt in Brazil – all these sites are part of UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).&n…
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Mongolia National Virtual Launch of the SDG 4 -Education 2030 Advocacy Month of August 2021
On 6 Aug 2021, UNESCO as custodian agency for SDG4 co-organized with United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office (UNRC) – Mongolia, UNCT-Mongolia, UNICEF Mongolia, Mongolia Ministry of Education and Science and the Mongolian National Commission for …
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Telling the story of living heritage through new media
2021 online capacity building workshops on heritage communication for World Heritage Sustainable Livelihood community leaders In May 2021, UNESCO released the report Living Heritage in the face of Covid-19, which pointed out that the pandemic ha…
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Mosul on the path to lasting peace four years after its liberation
On 21 July, four years ago, Mosul, an iconic Iraqi city, was liberated from the shackles of violent extremists, putting an end to 36 months of destruction, fear and death. Early in the year that followed, UNESCO laid out a plan for reconstruction and…
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World Heritage Committee inscribes four cultural and one natural site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee yesterday added four sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List and one extension to an existing transnational natural site in Europe. The new cultural sites are located in Italy, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the…
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AI Ethics: Another step closer to the adoption of UNESCO’s Recommendation
Paris, 2 July, After months of constructive dialogue and negotiation, representatives from UNESCO’s member states have agreed on the draft text of an ambitious and wide-ranging new template for the ethical development and deployment of Artificial Int…
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Reopening schools cannot wait: joint statement by UNICEF and UNESCO
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay It’s been 18 months since the COVID-19 outbreak started and education for millions of children is still disrupted. As of today, primary and secondary sch…
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