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UNESCO calls for more protection for artists under attack

·May 4, 2023·1 min read

Emergencies tend to exacerbate the vulnerabilities people who work in the arts already experience, as they face multiple threats such as online and offline harassment, loss of income, legal prosecution, violence, censorship, and silencing. Creatives also often lack minimal safety nets due to their precarious legal status, according to the...

New UNESCO report reveals $97 billion barrier to reaching education targets

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·April 17, 2023·1 min read

The paper Can countries afford their national SDG4 benchmarks? by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was written as input for the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It focused on Goal 4 of the...

Ukraine seeks UNESCO support for post-war cultural renaissance

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·April 6, 2023·3 min read

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay was in Ukraine to reaffirm support to the population amid the continuing full-scale Russian invasion, which began on 24 February last year. She visited the capital, Kyiv, and the cities of Odessa and Chernihiv, during the two-day mission, which concluded on Wednesday. Pillar of peace ...

‘A great victory’: Odesa mayor reacts to UNESCO Heritage List inclusion

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·January 31, 2023·4 min read

Mr. Trukhanov spoke to UN News shortly after the decision was announced, on Wednesday, and explained the laborious process that led to the inclusion. Odesa Mayor, Gennady Trukhanov Gennady Trukhanov We applied for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List back in 2009 and were accepted into the provisional list. But...

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO

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·January 20, 2023·2 min read

The agency announced on Thursday that it was dedicating the International Day of Education on 24 January, to the country’s women and girls. “No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. Education is a universal human right that must be respected,” said Director-General Audrey...

Killings of journalists up 50 per cent in 2022: UNESCO

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·January 17, 2023·1 min read

In the recently released 2021-2022 freedom of expression report, UNESCO noted the deaths of 86 journalists last year, amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021. The findings highlight the grave risks and vulnerabilities that journalists continue to face in the course of their work, the...

UNESCO ‘deeply saddened’ over death of football legend, Pelé

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·December 30, 2022·2 min read

The UN education and culture organisation which champions the power of sport across the world, UNESCO, tweeted that it was “deeply saddened” at his passing, and extended condolences to the Brazilian people, and the wider “football family”. As a 17-year-old, Pelé won his first football or soccer World Cup, in 1958,...

UNESCO: French baguettes, Chinese tea ceremony, join protected heritage list

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·December 1, 2022·2 min read

They were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, during a meeting taking place this week in Rabat, Morocco. Nineteen elements have been added to the list of priceless national treasures, which recognizes and promotes the diversity of cultural practices and know-how of enduring communities....

Iconic World Heritage glaciers to disappear by 2050, warns UNESCO |

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·November 7, 2022·2 min read

Glaciers in a third of sites are under threat, regardless of efforts to limit temperature increases. However, the study outlines that it is still possible to save the other two-thirds, if the rise in global temperatures does not exceed 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial era. UNESCO says that this will...