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UNESCO x Guerlain Women for Bees programme celebrates World Bee Day

Women for Bees is a stateoftheart female beekeeping entrepreneurship programme launched by UNESCO and Guerlain Implemented in UNESCO designated biosphere reserves around the world the programme promotes womens empowerment together with biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

UNESCO celebrates Forest Whitaker's decade of action

On the 10th anniversary of his commitment for peace with UNESCO the organization celebrates his action and impact for the service of humanity

UNESCO support to journalists in Ukraine making impact on the ground

Ever since the war in Ukraine broke out in February UNESCO has worked closely with its partner organizations and journalists unions in Ukraine to assess the needs on the ground and provide support

Celebrating International Jazz Day

11 years celebrating jazz music and calling for world peace and unity through jazz

Artomossi, fighting against silting

The erosion of biodiversity and ecosystems has ecological but also social and economic consequences UNESCO within the framework of its Biosphere and Heritage of Lake Chad BIOPALT project is supporting the population of Artomossi in the ecological restoration of its wadi which is suffering from silting

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the Congo Basin to become a knowledge hub in climate and biodiversity

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve lies at the heart of the secondlargest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon Situated in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo the biosphere reserve stretches over a distance of 2 350 km2 an area larger than the size of Mauritius On 21 March UNESCO organized a meeting with its partners to finetune a project which aims to turn Yangambi Biosphere Reserve into a hub for climate and biodiversity monitoring over the next 18 months

UNESCO, the World Jewish Congress and Facebook join forces against hate speech

Claims that deny distort or extol the history of the Holocaust have been proliferating on social media These contemporary forms of antisemitism spurred by neoNazis and other extremist forces are spreading quickly online To counter this alarming increase UNESCO is urging social media firms to make an immediate difference by changing their policies

UNESCO fights violence against women journalists

On 25 November 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression with support from UNESCO published the essay collection JournalistsToo Women Journalists Speak Out

UNESCO spotlights growth potential of Africa’s film industry

UNESCO published the first complete mapping of Africas film and audiovisual industries in 2021 the UN International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development These industries currently employ an estimated 5 million people and account for US$ 5 billion in GDP across the continent

The celebrated ‘Gilgamesh Tablet’ handed back to Iraq

In September 2021 UNESCO hailed a sizable victory in the fight against the illicit trade of cultural property The Gilgamesh Tablet one of the worlds oldest literary works was formally handed back to Iraq by the United States of America at a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC

Li Beirut one year on

Li Beirut For Beirut is an international flagship initiative UNESCO launched immediately after the explosions to ensure that education culture and heritage would be the main pillars of the vibrant culturally diverse capitals recovery

In Mosul, the preparation phase of reconstruction is completed

More than four years after Mosuls liberation from the shackles of violent extremism the iconic Iraqi city is regaining not just its destroyed monuments but also its soul

UNESCO adopts first global standard on the ethics of artificial intelligence

In November 2021 the 193 Member States at UNESCOs General Conference adopted the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence the very first global standardsetting instrument on the subject