[26.02.2002]- HAMID KARZAI TO VISIT UNESCO ON FRIDAY
During his official visit to France, the Chairman of Afghanistan’s Interim Authority, Hamid Karzai, will address an information session of UNESCO’s 58-member Executive Board and meet Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura on Friday, March 1. (...)Continue

[25.02.2002]- GEOFFREY NYAROTA OF ZIMBABWE AWARDED WORLD PRESS FREEDOM PRIZE 2002
Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota, editor-in-chief of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper, the Daily News, was today awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2002 (...)Continue

[22.02.2002]- DIRECTOR-GENERAL CONDEMNS MURDER OF DANIEL PEARL
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today condemned the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan as "a shocking act of barbarism".(...)Continue

[20.02.2002]- LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY: 3,000 LANGUAGES IN DANGER
About half of the 6,000 or so languages spoken in the world are under threat. (...)Continue

[06.02.2002]- UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL DEPLORES KILLING OF JOURNALIST IN COLOMBIA
UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura on a visit to Washington, today expressed his dismay at the death of Colombian journalist Orlando Sierra Hernández, deputy managing editor of the daily newspaper La Patria, in Manizales, who died last Saturday after being shot in an attack on January 30. (...)Continue

[06.02.2002]- HIGH DROP OUT AND REPETITION RATES SHOW QUALITY TO BE A CONCERN IN LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEMS
An estimated two million primary-age children and 20 million secondary-age children in Latin America don't attend primary or secondary school according to a new report by UNESCO's Institute for Statistics. (...)Continue