General Education

The Goi Peace Foundation and UNESCO organize an international essay contest for young people from all over the world. Participants will express themselves on the theme: “My Role in Creating a Peaceful World”. What is your vision of a peaceful and harmonious world? What can you and the young people of the world do to [...]

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova joined other leaders of the United Nations Adolescent Girls Task Force in issuing a joint statement as delegates gathered for the 15 year review of the Beijing Platform for Action.

Many of the 600 million adolescent girls living in developing countries remain invisible in national policies and programmes. Millions live [...]

For children to reach their full potential, the gains in universal primary education need to be replicated at the next level; only 54% of children in developing countries attend secondary school.
How can education systems be rebuilt to deliver their full potential in the 21st century? Speakers:
H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Irina Bokova, John T. Chambers, [...]

There are twenty (20) World Heritage sites in the United States (including two bi-national sites jointly administered with Canada). The U.S. Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage has identified many more sites (cultural and natural) as likely to meet the criteria for future nomination to the World [...]

Swiss Trains – The RhB UNESCO Heritage Route – through Southeastern Switzerland is one of the most beautiful sections of track in the world.

Ambassador Killion sits at the head of the table
Photo: Nicole Varchaver

Ambassador David Killion, together with Kelly Seikman (the Director of the UNESCO Affairs Office in the State Department) and Elizabeth Kanick (the Executive Director of the National Commission for UNESCO), met yesterday with members of the Board of Directors of Americans for UNESCO. They [...]

10 January to 7 February 2010

As part of the debates and events commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, the United Nations’ Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) is organizing a series of online discussions dedicated to specific critical areas of action related to gender equality. These discussions will [...]

This is one of UNESCO’s flagship programs! UNESCO has been actively involved in the return and restitution of cultural property for many years. It has led in the elaboration of a set of multilateral treaties:

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) and its two protocols (1954 [...]

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
The German Aerospace Center is collaborating with UNESCO to exhibit Large satellite images of World Heritage Sites. The exhibition ‘What a Sight – Space Looking out for World Heritage’ is currently being shown at the UN campus in Bonn. This exhibition was also held in Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne and Brussels.
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Read about the UNESCO-Google Partnership!

Go to the Google Map of the Street View sites.