Established in 1945, UNESCO was created to promote the preservation of natural and cultural sites that have had a significant impact on the formation of society. Today, there are more than 1,000 ...

UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia (UNESCO Beijing) was established in 1984 and is responsible for projects and work in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, the People’s ...

For the organization of the International Decade, UNESCO established a Global Task Force for Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages, which has created four Ad-hoc groups made up of ...

Less than two weeks into his second term, President Trump ordered a review of U.S. membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO, based on how it ...

The UNESCO Chair at Ulster University is the longest established in the UK with a focus on academic research related to Education, Peace and Conflict nationally and internationally. The Chair was ...

Locations deemed World Heritage sites are of "outstanding universal value to humanity" and should be "protected for future generations to appreciate and enjoy," according to Unesco. The ...

UNESCO has completed its reconstruction of ... Al-Saa'a Convent, a religious structure established in 1870 following the development of Eastern Christianity in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq ...

The 17 governors have established an association to concentrate their efforts to push for UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage status for Japan’s onsen culture. “We want to win the status ...

Located within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), the Institute for African Culture and International Understanding, established 12 years ago under the auspices UNESCO, seeks to ...