UNESCO is the arm of the United Nations charged with defending freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) monitors both the number and type of
In 2004, "Bright Side of the Road", was featured in the UNESCO advertisements for World Press Freedom Day.
The 17th century wooden church of Saint Nicholas, Budești Josani is one of eight Wooden Churches of Maramureș that UNESCO has listed as a World Heritage Site.
On July 9, 2013 President Obama announced his intent to nominate Ms. Nix-Hines as United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador.
He was also a Rhodes Scholar and he subsequently worked for Burmah-Shell Oil and UNESCO as well as being an active sports administrator in India.
It became a national 4A tourist site in 2002 then in June 2006 part of the South China Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site ; the only cave in China on the UNESCO list.
During his varied career, Davis was a journalism instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters during World War II, a member of the UNESCO Relations Staff of the Sate Department, and a professor of history at both Kansas State and the University of Kansas.
UNESCO proclaimed Kihnu's cultural space and traditions as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 7, 2003.
The instrument was declared to be part of the world's protected cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2010.
Renovation of the renaissance murals started in 1987 with the help of UNESCO.
The conservation of this private building was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2004 annual UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards.The head of the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu, Ms. Koto Kanno, presented the award to Mr. Rabindra Puri, owner of the Namuna Ghar.
The Seville Statement on Violence was adopted, in Seville, Spain, on 16 May 1986, by an international meeting of scientists convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO.
Its mission is to "conserve the UNESCO-designated Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve as a continuous natural environment and scenic, working countryside".
Orbicom-UNESCO, a UNESCO committee fostering education and growth of communications technology internationally.
In 2005, "Taquile and Its Textile Art" were honored by being proclaimed "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO.
On 25 November 2005 the UNESCO included the Tarasque on the list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
UNESCO World Youth Festival "Dialogue Among Civilizations" 2001
In 1952 Kirk was a Canadian delegate to the Seventh General Conference of UNESCO in Paris.
:Honourable mentions: Jaime Castillo Velasco, Chile; Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden.
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It was renamed on 5 May 2008 under the terms of a memorandum of understanding with Mayor of Bilbao Iñaki Azkuna whereby the municipality of Bilbao agreed to fund the prize for a period of three years.
He was awarded an honorary award by UNESCO and Honorary Diploma of the Union of Writers of Missouri (USA).
They are included in the newly established UNESCO world nature heritage site in the archipelago of Kvarken.
Schramm was especially influential for his 1964 book Mass Media and National Development which was published in conjunction with UNESCO, which effectively began research into the link between the spread of communication technology and socio-economic development.
The airport will be located in the town of Xiannüshan (仙女山), 43 kilometers from the urban center of Wulong, and will mainly serve tourists visiting the Wulong Karst landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
He continued his career from 1956 onwards, serving as Indian delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1956–1957 and to UNESCO in 1958.
In 1995, this collection of wierden was submitted to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
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Ak Astana-Baba is a mausoleum that is located in the Surxondaryo Province of Uzbekistan The mausoleum is being considered for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The paper has been awarded by different bodies, including the UNESCO Prize for Social Reporting and Columbia University’s James Wechsler Award for best international reporting.
In March 2011 Elizabeth Salguero, Minister of Cultures, nominated Alasitas along with two other Bolivian festivals to UNESCO for World Heritage recognition as part of the cultural and intangible heritage of humanity.
In 1951, he obtained a UNESCO grant, allowing him to travel to Paris and meet with intellectuals from Africanist circles, notably Marcel Griaule.
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German Commission for UNESCO and the Ministers for the Environment of two German States: Baden Wuerttemberg and Lower Saxony.
He worked as Reporter in Eenadu Telugu news daily from 1989 to 1993, later he worked as Script Writer in State Institute of Education Technology (SIET), Doordarshan (a UNESCO aided Educational Project).
The Schorfheide is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and houses several rare animals like White-tailed Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Osprey, Black Stork, European Beaver and otter.
In addition, he is the co-founder, with René Berger, of the Study Group on Transdisciplinarity at UNESCO (1992) and the founder and Director of the "Transdisciplinarity" Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco and of the "Romanians of Paris", Piktos/Oxus Editions, Paris.
He has been chairman of the History Department of the University College, Nairobi, edited Volume V of UNESCO's History of Africa, and presided over the committee that oversaw the production of the entire History.
He served as president of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters and was a member of US delegations to UNESCO.
It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Lalibela is a pilgrimage site for members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; the church itself is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela".
Some conservative citizen groups such as the Korean Council for Restoration National Identity and American and Korean Friendship National Council protested at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in May 2011 to prevent inscribing the records of the Gwangju Democratization Movement in the Memory of the World Register, and to petition for reconsidering identifying North Korean Special Forces as the perpetrators of the GDM.
1800 (based in part on his doctoral thesis, 1936), sections written for The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (1961), the coauthoring of Volume 4 of the UNESCO History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development.
Vanuatu former Foreign Affairs Minister and former chairman of the Vanuatu National Commission for UNESCO Joe Natuman expressed surprise at his country's position, saying it appeared to contradict Vanuatu's long-standing support for Palestine.
He has also written reports and extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank, the European Environment Agency, and the UK Environment Agency.
The site has also benefited in recent years from the UNESCO funded Malta Mosaics Project, which mapped mosaics and pavements at Għajn Tuffieha and the Domvs Romana.
He has conducted major excavations in Gujarat (Rojdi, Babar Kot and Oriyo Timbo), Rajasthan (Gilund), and in January 2007, began an excavation at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman.
There are Chapters of the Group of 77 in Rome (FAO), Vienna (UNIDO), Paris (UNESCO), Nairobi (UNEP) and the Group of 24 in Washington, D.C. (International Monetary Fund and World Bank).
After UNESCO declared 2007 as Year of Rumi, he was achieved the clemency and example behaviour prize by Turkish Football Coaches Association.
The International Year of Planet Earth project was initiated jointly by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The trail start at Lukla and Jorsale is the last settlement before Namche, the main stopping point for trekkers on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest), one of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.
From 1974 until his death he was an advisor to UN agencies UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, and about 35 African governments from his base in Nairobi.
KVPT was founded in 1991 by architectural historian Eduard Sekler, then team leader of the UNESCO Campaign to Safeguard the Cultural Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, and is run by a team of Nepali architects and craftspeople in Patan, working closely with the Government of Nepal, Department of Archaeology.
Koutammouko, the Land of the Batammariba is a cultural landscape designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Togo.
Starting in 1968 he worked for UNESCO as an international functionary of the United Nations and held various positions in Paris, Havana, and Caracas: Service Chief of Radio and Television in the Spanish Language, Regional Adviser of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Regional Director for the same region, Ombudsman in the Parisian headquarters and Coordinator, from Caracas, of the activities of the same organization in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Manovo-Gounda St.Floris National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Central African Republic prefecture Bamingui-Bangoran, near the Chad border.
The municipality includes parts of the city's old downtown, classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
It is part of the defence line of Muiden, that is part of the Stelling van Amsterdam, the UNESCO World Heritage site that consists of a set of forts around the city of Amsterdam.
The Munich Waldfriedhof was also a very important predecessor of Skogskyrkogården outside Stockholm, a UNESCO world heritage site.
These shrines form part of the "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range" UNESCO World Heritage Site.
He then commenced his more academic career as UNESCO-IBM Professor of Information Technology ate Southampton University on secondment from IBM, a progression which has continued to the present.
Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol of the Sierra Gorda in the Mexican state of Querétaro were declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2003.
Sulyandziga's home region is the Bikin River valley, located in close proximity to the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, which was designated UNESCO World Heritage in 2001.
The Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)has already appealed to the authorities to ensure better protection of Buddhist sites by taking up the declaration of Bavikonda, Thotlakonda, Pavurallakonda and Bojjannakonda as heritage sites by UNESCO.
It includes the east side of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills (site of the infamous Shafia family murders), hosts a handful of motels serving Ontario Highway 15 and former Ontario Highway 2, a federal prison (Pittsburgh and Joyceville Institutions in Joyceville, Ontario) and three museums (Military Communications and Electronics Museum, RMC Museum and McLaughlin Woodworking Museum).
They were confirmed as this in 2001 in the UNESCO meeting in Helsinki.
Named after the nearby town of Sivand located northwest of Shiraz, it has become the center of worldwide concern due to the flooding it will cause in historical and archaeologically rich areas of Ancient Persia and possible harm it may cause to the nearby UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Persepolis and Pasargadae.
In 2000, he became a winner of the international art contest among countries of the Caspian Sea organized by UNDP, TACIS, with the support of UNESCO.
Tadrart Acacus, a mountain chain in Libya designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 for its ancient petroglyphs
Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark.
The movie is filmed entirely on location in Penang at the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, a UNESCO Architectural Heritage Award recipient, over 6 weeks in 2008.
The two laureates in 1998 were the educator and peace activist Narayan Desai of India and the Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights of Pakistan.