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On this year’s International Mother Language Day (21 February 2022), UNESCO and Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center (Bophana Center) kicked off a five-day, capacity-building workshop in which Indigenous youth from Cambodia’s Ratanakiri Province learned how...

SDG 4 Education 2030 Coordination and Monitoring in Asia-Pacific, 5 – 7 June 2022, Bangkok The UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok), the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, and the UNICEF Regional Office for...

Applications accepted now through 20 January 2022 for the inaugural session of March through November 2022 To expand the impacts of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation programme, UNESCO introduces the ‘Heritage Apprentice’...

Ten cities with outstanding achievements in the implementation of UNESCO’s learning city strategies will receive the UNESCO Learning Cities Award 2021 on 27 October 2021, the first day of the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities, in Yeonsu...

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed international higher education. Online and blended learning are necessary vehicles for ensuring equitable access to quality higher education for all. Recognition authorities in Asia and the Pacific are...

At least 27 million students in the region were not able to attend any in-school education since the beginning of the pandemic. BANGKOK/KATHMANDU, 19 October 2021 — The education of more than 800 million children – 400 million in South Asia, 260 million in...

This International Day of the Girl Child, it is important to share some good news to break through the bad. Over the past 25 years, there has been an increase in girls’ primary completion rates of 20 percentage points. Globally, 87% of girls are now...

New Delhi, 12 October 2021 –To build back better from the ongoing pandemic, health and education ministers of countries in WHO South-East Asia Region, and heads of UN agencies today committed to Health Promoting Schools for healthier generations and...

New UNESCO-UNICEF report reveals a learning crisis that is leaving the most disadvantaged learners behind Bangkok/Kathmandu, 29 September 2021 – Despite important progress in the Asia-Pacific, most countries in the region are off-track to achieve...

On 18 August 2021, UNESCO Bangkok in collaboration with Lenovo Thailand and Equitable Education Fund (EEF) announced the donation of 50 Lenovo tablets to the Learning Coin project, which promotes equitable access to quality education by cultivating good...

UNESCO Bangkok launched the TechCul Initiative to develop digital solutions and business models to address the existing challenges faced by the culture and creative sector across the Asia-Pacific region. A total of 443 participants from 34 countries...

Plastic pollution is an increasingly severe environmental crisis in the region and the world. Last month in Thailand, the country watched as the young dugong “Marium” died despite veterinary care, just the latest marine mammal whose death is linked to...

“A door opens for Mongolian citizens to improve their professional skills, and continue their studies and work.” – Yo.Baatarbileg, Mongolia’s Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Sport Mongolia joined the Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the...

Kris Sanguanpiyapand’s TEDxBangkok talk was itself performance art, relating in the context of a Peter Pan skit how he had overcome multiple hurdles to found Blind Theatre Thailand, encouraging cultural projects featuring blind and sighted people working...