UNESCO has designated 12 new Global Geoparks, adding new destinations across Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America to its ...

What they described were not abstract qualities, but the core components of intercultural leadership as developed through the programme: building trust across divides, listening and mediating between ...

The event gathered young people aged from 7 to 18 to develop creative projects in response to the growing impact of ...

In Icelandic, "Vatnajökull" means "the water glacier." At over 3,000 square miles, this massive ice cap covers more than eight percent of Iceland. "I remember the first time I seen a glacier, it moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay delivers a speech during a ceremony celebrating the final phase of the restoration works on ...

UNESCO also warned that funding is still low, with many governments spending just 0.8% of global GDP on higher education.

UNESCO, the cultural arm of the United Nations, is headquartered in Paris and has 194 member countries. Fred Romero via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 The United States will once again pull out of ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef made the international headlines this week. It was not good news for the reef, described by David Attenborough as “one of the greatest and most splendid natural ...

African world heritage constitutes an essential part of human history. Every 5 May, African World Heritage Day (AWHD) ...

Discover 10 U.S. cities recognized by UNESCO for their creativity, from arts hubs to food capitals worth exploring.