The Director-General held a landmark bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping, whose 2014 visit to UNESCO remains a ...

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

UNESCO and the Equitable Education Fund (EEF) Thailand signed a new partnership agreement to strengthen regional cooperation on equitable education and support innovative approaches to reduce the ...

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 ...

UNESCO World Heritage sites are more than just well-known landmarks–they are considered places of special value for all of ...

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 recently announced new additions to its list of World Heritage Sites. From a white sand cliff in Denmark to a coastal region in West Africa, the list includes stunning and important ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from ...

Amid a wave of online mis- and disinformation centred on global flashpoint issues such as the climate crisis, attacks and wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and growing concerns that the critical 2024 USs ...

The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias, only two years after ...

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 ...