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UNESCO Chief Pledges to Correct Science Report's Omission of Israel - YAHOO!

PARIS, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova pledged to AJC today that her agency's latest five-year Science Report would belatedly be augmented with an online chapter on Israeli scientific achievements. The ... More...

UNESCO launches literacy project for Senegal women - Investors Business Daily

PARIS, Feb 01, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Senegal government has launched an literacy project under the slogan "Help my hand write my future" in collaboration with UNESCO and Procter & Gamble, the UN cultural agency said in a statement Wednesday. More...

Polycom Video Collaboration Helps Global Nomads Group to Bring UNESCO Initiative Into Classrooms in Brazil and United States - Yahoo Finance

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire -02/01/12)- Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM - News), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today announced that Global Nomads Group (GNG) used Polycom® RealPresence™ Video and Voice ... More...

Palestine Poison Pill Paralyses UNESCO - Canada Free Press

Palestine’s admission as the 195th member state of UNESCO - in possible breach of UNESCO’s own Constitution - has become a very painful poison pill for UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova to swallow. This is becoming increasingly evident as ... More...

Syria May Be Expelled From UNESCO’s Human-Rights Committee - Businessweek

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- More than two dozen governments are backing an initiative to expel Syria from UNESCO’s human-rights committee, a move that would mark the first time the United Nation’s culture and education agency has taken such ... More...

Mumbai, Delhi vie for spot in Unesco heritage list - Times of India

MUMBAI: Mumbai's Victorian and art deco district with its neo Gothic monuments and art deco buildings in south Mumbai has moved a step closer to being listed as a World Heritage Site. The Maharashtra government's official entry was submitted to ... More...

UNESCO unmoved to try and end humanitarian crisis - On Line Opinion

In all of these ongoing discussions the very large Legal Department of UNESCO has remained silent - apparently hoping that its spin doctors in Public Relations will make the legal issues go away. UNESCO's conduct seems very hard to fathom. UNESCO is ... More...

Nations try to oust Syria from UNESCO rights panel - Huffington Post

PARIS — A group of UNESCO member states is trying to remove Syria from a committee with a human rights mandate, a panel it quietly rejoined despite its deadly crackdown on protesters. U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based NGO, diplomats and others said ... More...

UNESCO asks Italy to limit access of cruise ships to Venice after Costa Concordia disaster - Daily Mail

UNESCO has asked the Italian government to limit the access of cruise ships to the World Heritage Site of Venice following the Costa Concordia disaster. Experts already fear that the wash from the giant ships as they pass the edge of the Grand Canal is ... More...

Venice rebels against cruise ship intrusions - AP - msnbc.com

And UNESCO, the U.N. culture organization, charges that the liners cause water tides that erode building foundations and pollute waterways. Venice in the space of 15 years has become one of the world's most important cruise destinations, the port serving ... More...

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