UNESCO in Brief

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UNESCO in Brief

UNESCO in Brief

Literacy: slow progress
Almost 80 percent of the world’s population aged 15 years and over is now literate according to new figures from UNESCO released on International Literacy Day (September 8).More

Interactive atlas of the oceans
Amid mounting concern over continuing deterioration of marine and coastal ecosystems, several of the world's foremost ocean agencies have created the first on-line, interactive atlas of the world’s oceans.More

Teaching science with zest
Science and technology are all around us, all the time. Yet, young people everywhere are losing interest in these fields, which are too often badly taught or hardly taught at all.More

Mobilizing to safeguard intangible heritage
On September 17, representatives of 100 countries, among them 72 culture ministers, decided to develop “policies which aim at the identification, safeguarding, promotion and transmission of the intangible cultural heritage, particularly through information and education.”More

Human rights at university
Holders of UNESCO Chairs on human rights, democracy, peace and tolerance gathered for their biannual meeting in the Austrian town of Stadtschlaining last April.More

Books made in Cambodia
Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and UNESCO’s Phnom Penh Office recently published five books in Khmer in a country that has yet to develop its book publishing industry.More

Conservation pays off in Swiss Alps
The Alpine region of Entlebuch in the canton of Lucerne has become Switzerland’s second UNESCO biosphere reserve.More

Sesame opens door to Middle East co-operation
UNESCO is backing a science initiative that could help promote peaceful co-operation in the Middle East, by constructing an international synchrotron radiation centre in Jordan.More

A prize for the DG
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has been awarded the International Prize for St. Andrew for 2002, for his “outstanding contribution to the development of dialogue between civilizations”.More

Restoring Afghanistan’s cultural heritage
Participants at a UNESCO-organized meeting in Kabul last May decided not to give priority to reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, which were dynamited in March 2001.More

An exceptional effort
The City Montessori School (CMS), founded in 1959 in Lucknow in the state of Uttar Pradesh, is a school unlike any other.More

Nine new World Heritage sites
Nine new sites, all cultural, were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List last June, including: ...More

Timor’s cultural heritage
When East Timor became independent last May 20 – the world’s newest country – UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura appealed to governments to contribute to a special fund to preserve its cultural heritage.More

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