Professor Edward Derbyshire, a Royal Holloway academic in the Geography Department’s Centre of Quaternary Research, is playing a leading role in the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE). Jointly organised by UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the IYPE triennium running from 2007 to 2009 has, as its main goal, helping to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe by drawing from the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists.
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The United Nation has stated 2009 as International Year of Astronomy to motivate worldwide interest in astronomy and science especially among young people under the theme "The Universe, yours to discover,".
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced five winners – from China, the United States, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania – of this year’s Literacy Prizes.
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UNESCO has released its most recent additions to the World Heritage List of cultural and natural sites, which this year included Nisa, the capital of the ancient Parthian Empire, in what is now Turkmenistan.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today wrapped up this year’s review of its World Heritage List by adding three sites in Serbia, Azerbaijan and Mexico.
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UNESCO has pledged to help rebuild a revered Shi'ite shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra, which was badly damaged in two separate attacks, one in February 2006 and the other earlier this month.
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The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the brutal murder of two prominent female journalists in Afghanistan.
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Corruption in schools creates serious obstacles to education, according to a new report launched today by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the killing of yet another Iraqi journalist following the murder in Baghdad of Ali Khalil.
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The UNESCO convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expression will be able enter into force in three months time, following its ratification by a sufficient number of countries yesterday. The required number of 30 ratifications was reached on 18 December when the Community, joined by twelve Member States deposited their instruments of ratification at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
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