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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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UNESCO and WHO urge countries to make every school a health-promoting school
UNESCO and the World Health Organization today launched the Global Standards for Health-promoting Schools, a resource package for schools to improve the health and well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents. The closure of many sc…
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Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of UNESCO Beijing Office Attended the Opening Ceremony of the 1st Jingshi Students International Exchange Week Held by Beijing Normal University
On 28 June 2021, at the invitation of Beijing Normal University (BNU), Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of UNESCO Beijing Cluster Office attended the opening ceremony of the first Jingshi Students International Exchange Week, joined in the panel discussi…
