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UNESCO award for Northland junior historians
Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:21 pm | UNESCO
Northland School junior historians awarded UNESCO Living Heritage Award Nearly sixty years after a young New Zealand pilot died saving a village in WWII, a group of Wellington school children have won a Living Heritage Award for an online project that remembers ... More >>
Hauraki Primary School Living Heritage Award
Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:19 pm | UNESCO
Are Mangroves unwanted weeds, the "Gorse of the sea" or are they beautiful trees that attract native birds? Mangrove swamps are prevalent throughout Takapuna and yet local youngsters discovered that adults seemed divided over where they were a ... More >>
Mahana Primary School wins Living Heritage Award
Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:02 pm | UNESCO
An online history project initiated by the children of tiny Mahana Primary School - a rural school 30km from Nelson - has won a Living Heritage Taonga Tuku Iho Award for 2009. The students recognised that their small community was changing and they ... More >>
UNESCO awards"Realise the Dream" Award
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 12:22 pm | UNESCO
UNESCO awards $4000 prize for Best Research Award in the "Realise the Dream" Event to Jake Martin of Cambridge High School. UNESCO is thrilled to present the $4000 best research award for the top senior student in "Realise the Dream". More >>
Conclusion Of The UN Year Of Languages
Monday, 23 February 2009, 10:43 am | UNESCO
A wide range of activities that have taken place throughout New Zealand as part of the United Nations International Year of Languages 2008 will be marked with a gathering on Monday 23 February at Te Taura Whiri i te reo Maori, the Maori Language Commission. More >>
UNESCO Launches First Online Annual Report
Friday, 12 December 2008, 4:32 pm | UNESCO
For the first time in its 61-year history, members of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO have decided against printing numerous copies of their annual report. Instead, the organisation published this year's document online. The report will ... More >>
UNESCO supports Realise the Dream Science Week
Friday, 12 December 2008, 4:31 pm | UNESCO
Some of New Zealand's most exceptional school students who have demonstrated excellence in science research or technological practice gathered in Wellington thisweek as part of the annual "Genesis Energy Realise the Dream" science week. During the week ... More >>
Bryan Gould chairs first UNESCO meeting
Friday, 12 December 2008, 4:30 pm | UNESCO
Former Waikato University vice chancellor Dr Bryan Gould (CNZM) will chair his first meeting of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO this week after his appointment in October. More >>
Frontlines Forum: What's It All About?
Sunday, 7 September 2008, 10:39 am | UNESCO
Many small island, rural and indigenous communities are already facing the first impacts of climate change. Their high vulnerability relates to their reliance upon resource-based livelihoods and the locations and configurations of their lands and ... More >>
Online Anti-Doping Cartoon Launched By UNESCO
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 10:46 am | UNESCO
The latest adventures of Rattus Holmes and Felis Watson – a tale of sport and athletes who cheat by taking banned drugs – can be found on a website run by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, starting today. More >>
Indigenous people are original environmentalists
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 1:53 pm | UNESCO
Tangata whenua are ideally placed to lead local environmental projects because of the strength and integrity of traditional environmental values, says the Maori Party. More >>
UNESCO seeks clarification on Sarawak dam project
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 1:51 pm | UNESCO
UNESCO World Heritage Centre requests Malaysian authorities to clarify hydropower plans at Gunung Mulu National Park More >>
"Who's afraid of bilingualism?"
Monday, 30 June 2008, 3:55 pm | UNESCO
Globalisation and its effect upon linguistic diversity and multilingualism will be explored by Professor Anne Pauwels in this special UNESCO Lecture in celebration of the UN International Year of Languages 2008. More >>
New Human Rights Convention Ratified
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 5:17 pm | UNESCO
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty of the twenty-first century, is designed to protect the rights of the world's estimated 650 million people with disabilities. It has just been ratified ... More >>
He Waka He Tangata
Monday, 29 October 2007, 11:47 am | UNESCO
Friday, 26 October 2007, 9:52 am Press Release: Links UNESCO/Local & Indigenous Knowledge Systems Programme (LINKS) LINK More >>
Junior historians win Living Heritage Awards
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 9:38 am | UNESCO
Some of New Zealand’s youngest historians were presented with Living Heritage Tikanga Tuku Iho Awards as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s meeting being held in Christchurch. The Awards were presented by UNESCO Deputy Director General, ... More >>
UN Sustainability Campaign - Kiwi Kids to the fore
Friday, 6 October 2006, 8:52 am | UNESCO
In a display of typical Kiwi ingenuity, a New Zealand youngster has helped coin the phrase that is set to symbolise a major United Nations campaign in Aotearoa and perhaps throughout the world. More >>
Making the Good Things Last - UNESCO
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 4:57 pm | UNESCO
What is the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development about? There can be few pressing and critical goals for the future of humankind than to ensure the steady improvement in the quality of life for our generations and those that follow in a ... More >>
Westie weavers leading the way in UN campaign
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 4:55 pm | UNESCO
The symbol for sustainability in New Zealand won’t be yet another plastic wrist band – not if some ingenious flax weavers and Westies have anything to say about it. More >>
Future Leaders Meet Before World Heritage Session
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 1:13 pm | UNESCO
Young leaders from around the Pacific will attend a global youth forum on world heritage ahead of next year’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Christchurch says Margaret Austin, chair of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO. More >>
