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New UNESCO Data: Numbers Out of School Children Stagnate
Monday, 10 June 2013, 3:01 pm | UNESCO
New UNESCO Data: Numbers Out of School Children Stagnate While Aid to Basic Education Falls By Six Per Cent In a Year More >>
Experts link local knowledge with climate change
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 1:31 pm | UNESCO
The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO is proud to co-host with UNESCO’s Climate Frontlines programme, an international experts meeting ‘Te hurihuri o te Ao: Cycles of Change’ in Auckland from 4 to 7 June 2013. More >>
Natural Resource Revenue Could Reduce Out-of-school Numbers
Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 1:45 pm | UNESCO
A new paper from UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, shows that 17 developing countries* could pay to provide an education for 86% of their out-of-school children or 42% of their out of school adolescents if they managed their revenues ... More >>
Funding Gap For Education Growing, According To New Figures
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 4:13 pm | UNESCO
PRESS RELEASE: Funding Gap For Education Growing, According To New Figures Released by UNESCO New calculations by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report reveal that the $16 billion annual external funding gap to achieve basic education ... More >>
UNESCO Recognition for New Zealand’s Documentary Heritage
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 9:46 am | UNESCO
Maori Land Court Minute Books from the 19th century and a documentary recording the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand have been inscripted onto the UNESCO Memory of the World New Zealand register for documentary heritage. More >>
October 5 is World Teachers Day
Friday, 5 October 2012, 11:50 am | UNESCO
To support your coverage of this event, UNESCO has prepared an info graphic highlighting the world’s teacher shortage. The data shows where the shortages are most acute and how many teachers are required where. It also signals the high price that will ... More >>
UNESCO: disaster risk reduction through education
Friday, 10 August 2012, 12:02 pm | UNESCO
In 2011 alone, 302 hazards resulted in disasters that claimed almost 30,000 lives, affected 206 million people and inflicted damages worth an estimated US$366 billion, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. More >>
Call For Investigation into Death Of Honduran Journalist
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 12:42 pm | UNESCO
UNESCO Chief Calls For Investigation Into Death Of Honduran Journalist New York, May 15 2012 11:10AM More >>
Media Conference Sets Foundation For Myanmar Media
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 3:37 pm | UNESCO
UNESCO Media Conference Sets Foundation For Media Development In Myanmar Bangkok, 26 March 2012 – Myanmar’s Minister of Information and Culture stressed the importance of new media laws, journalists’ morality and ethics, and capacity building trainings ... More >>
Myanmar Reviews Its Media Draft Laws With UNESCO Assistance
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 2:53 pm | UNESCO
UNESCO Bangkok Press Release No.2012 Myanmar Reviews Its Media Draft Laws With Assistance of UNESCO Myanmar’s Ministry of Information in co-operation with UNESCO recently organized a review workshop on the country’s first draft media laws in Yangon and ... More >>
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Receives UNESCO Prize
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 2:39 pm | UNESCO
Paris, 10 February – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy received the 2002 UNESCO-Mandanjeet Singh Prize for Tolerance and Non-Violence today. The award was presented to her by Ryuhei Hosoya, head of the Office of the ... More >>
New Zealand marks UN Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012, 10:02 am | UNESCO
New Zealanders will be the first in the world to mark United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 this Friday with a service at the Jewish Cemetery at Makara and an official parliamentary function. More >>
Help Kiribati Stone Warriors Fight, Save it from Sinking
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 10:29 am | UNESCO
Kiribati is a nation of around 100,000 people who live on a raised coral island and 33 atolls. It is one of the low-laying islands in the Pacific with its highest point of just three metres above sea level. More >>
UNESCO Supports Govt Of Thailand In Recovery Of Ayutthaya
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 1:17 pm | UNESCO
Bangkok, 21 December 2011 – UNESCO affirms its commitment to cooperate closely with the Government of Thailand in restoring the World Heritage site of Ayutthaya after the disastrous 2011 floods. UNESCO is mobilizing world-class expertise and ... More >>
UNESCO Concerns Over Flooded Ayutthaya World Hertage Site
Monday, 12 December 2011, 12:18 pm | UNESCO
Bangkok, 9 December 2011 – International experts visiting the site indicated concerns about stability of monuments, foundation and decorative works at the Ancient City of Ayutthaya in Thailand after it was hit by the country’s most disastrous flooding ... More >>
Asia Pacific Youth Looking Beyond Disaster
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 2:06 pm | UNESCO
This weekend more than eighty young people from throughout Asia and the Pacific who have experienced natural disasters in their homelands will meet in Christchurch to develop a plan for the future of our region. More >>
UNESCO Annual Review celebrates young people of Christchurch
Monday, 5 December 2011, 4:37 pm | UNESCO
The inspirational stories of young Christchurch people form the foundation of this year's Annual Review from the NZ National Commission for UNESCO. More >>
Assessing Flood-Affected Ayutthaya World Heritage Site
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 12:06 pm | UNESCO
Bangkok, 30 November 2011 – UNESCO water specialists and experts from four countries are now surveying the Ancient City of Ayutthaya in Thailand to assess the impact to the World Heritage property from the country’s most disastrous flooding in decades. More >>
UNESCO to Join Thai Government For Emergency Rehabilitation
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 10:14 am | UNESCO
Bangkok, 14 November 2011 – UNESCO Bangkok experts recently met at the Prime Minister’s Office with senior government officers along with public and private sector representatives to discuss possible cooperation for an immediate rehabilitation programme to the ... More >>
NZ to Host Forum for Young Survivors Of Natural Disasters
Friday, 11 November 2011, 2:59 pm | UNESCO
Young people who have experienced natural disasters in the Asia Pacific region will gather in Christchurch next month for the “Looking Beyond Disaster: UNESCO International Youth Forum 2011.” More >>
