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Latest headlines

• 10.02.12

  Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives UNESCO Prize as Organization launches projects to support reforms in Myanmar

• 10.02.12

  News journalism in a digital world

• 09.02.12

  Tune in to World Radio Day on 13 February

• 08.02.12

  Director-General condemns murder of Pakistani journalist Mukarram Khan Aatif

• 07.02.12

  Japan : policy perspectives one year after the tsunami struck

• 06.02.12

  Global recording artist, Sarah Brightman designated UNESCO Artist for Peace

• 03.02.12

  International Institute for Peace co-founded by Forest Whitaker joins forces with UNESCO

• 02.02.12

  IEEE and UNESCO sign partnership to promote engineering education in Africa

• 01.02.12

  UNESCO and Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock launch 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention

• 31.01.12

  Director-General condemns murder of Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi and urges Somalia to improve media safety