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Latest headlines

• 16.12.15

  First Global Report - Evaluating the Impact of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

• 15.12.15

  Science, central to Paris Climate Agreement and Sustainable Development, says UN’s Scientific Advisory Board

• 14.12.15

  Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology to be awarded to Yoshihiro Kawaoka of Japan

• 12.12.15

  Director-General welcomes COP21 agreement and underlines the momentum in changing minds not the climate

• 11.12.15

  UNESCO concerned about damage to underwater archaeological site of the San José shipwreck in Panama

• 11.12.15

  47 cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network

• 10.12.15

  Director-General condemns murder of blogger Ítalo Eduardo Diniz Barros in Brazil

• 09.12.15

  First UNESCO report on impact of 2005 Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions

• 08.12.15

  Director-General condemns killing of cameraman Guido Armando Giovanni Villatoro Ramos in Guatemala

• 07.12.15

  Director-General condemns murder of journalist Dorance Herrera in Colombia