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Cultural Reorientation in Africa: Nigeria's "Project Runway"

Linda Constant | Posted 05.21.2010 | World

Read More: Promoting Nigerian Dress Culture, Clothing, Cultural Diplomacy, Africa, Workshop, Fashion Designers, Cultural Balance, Goodluck Jonathan, Unesco, 2020, Globalization, Diplomacy, Western, Traditional Dress, Cultural Reorientation, Nigerian Fashion Week, Style, Nollywood, Umaru Yar’Adua, National Institute for Cultural Orientation, Fashion, Barclays Ayakoroma, Nigeria, World Decade for Cultural Development, Nico, World News

Nigeria's image in Western media is a complex combination of exoticism, intrigue and danger. While most people are well acquainted with Nollywood (now...

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The Fight For Lebanon's Milk and Honey

Patrick Galey | Posted 05.21.2010 | World

Read More: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Environment, Unesco, Environmentalism, Lebanon, Beirut, World News, Baalbek, Qadisha, World News

The news that UNESCO is considering removing Lebanon's Qadisha Valley from its World Heritage list ought to jolt many governments into immediate and decisive action. In Beirut, the threat has been met with little more than political platitudes.

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UNESCO's Decision to Accept Money From One of Africa's Worst Dictators Is Outrageous

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.13.2010 | World

Read More: United States Senate, Unesco, United Nations, World News

UNESCO should do the right thing and return the money to Obiang as soon as possible or invest it in primary education in Equatorial Guinea.

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UNESCO Slammed For 'Dictator' Science Prize

Posted 05.10.2010 | World

Read More: Obiang UNESCO, Unesco, Un, Teodor Obiang Nguema, Obiang, World News

Over a dozen human rights groups have censured UNESCO for planning to award a science prize sponsored by Teodor Obiang Nguema, the president of Equato...

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The Most Beautiful Wilderness (PHOTOS)

Posted 04.26.2010 | Green

Read More: Nature Beauty, Preserved Wilderness, Nature, Unesco, Wilderness, Unspoiled Wilderness, Earth Day, World Heritage Site, Slidepollajax, Green News

We're feeling the love for Mama Earth after last week's Earth Day, so we're inspired to look for the beauty of preserved wilderness from around the w...

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Drinking Water Filthy But Big Money Goes To Build New Stadium

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.22.2010 | Green

Read More: Water Projects, School Attendance, Corruption, Games, Fifa, Poverty, Dirty, Dying, Africa, World Cup, Children, United Nations, Knight Center for International Media, University of Miami, Drinking, Stadium, South Africa, 2 Billion, 2010, Water, Soccer, Clean, Unesco, Monetary Fund, Global Report, World Health Organization, Un, Michel Camdessus, Nelspruit, Green News

Out of South Africa came the news that an expensive new soccer stadium had been built in a city where drinking water is often dirty and many people have neither electric lights nor toilets.

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Naked Animal Rights Activists Rally Against Bullfighting In Madrid (VIDEO)

Posted 05.15.2010 | Green

Read More: Madrid, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Bullfighting, Unesco, Bullfighting Culture, Spain, Poll, Bullfighting Madrid, Animals, Green News

Animal rights activists gathered in Madrid's central square to protest bullfighting, wearing nothing but fake blood and forming S.O.S. with their bodi...

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Finding Meaning In Inescapable Suffering: From Aceh To Haiti

Alex Pattakos | Posted 03.28.2010 | Living

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Tsunami, Indonesia, Aceh, Suffering, Alex Pattakos, Viktor Frankl, Unesco, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Port-Au-Prince, Unicef, Asian Tsunami, Meaning, Living News

Although it may be difficult to comprehend, such suffering also provides us with an opportunity to find meaning in the situation, even if it sometimes must come long after the event we are forced to endure.

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Kashgar: China, UNESCO Clash Over The Uighur "Jerusalem"

GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 03.18.2010 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China Uighur Riots, Unesco, China Uighur Protests, China-Uighurs, Kashgar, China Uighur Crackdown, China-Uighur-Protests, Unesco World Heritage, China, World News

KASHGAR, China -- What's going on in Kashgar? The bulldozers have gone silent and demolition dust settled in Kashgar's Old City district in recent mo...

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Arab Countries Aim to Improve Journalism Education With UNESCO's "Model Curricula"

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 03.18.2010 | World

Read More: The Middle East, Europe, Russian, French, Converged Media, Unesco, North and South America, American, Asia, University of Bahrain, Chinese, Arabic, Journalism, Paris, English, Singapore, Mauritania, Un, North Africa, Spanish, Africa, Media Academic Programs, Morocco, Tunisia, World Journalism Education Congress, Media Ethics, Anglo-Saxon, Bahrain, Model Curricula for Journalism Education, Media Laws, Education, Arab, Algeria, Gulf Cooperation Council, Manama, Francophone, Rabat, World News

Arab countries are making strides in trying to improve journalism curricula, but still face strictures, obstacles and challenges to press freedom as w...

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Obama Gets Good Grades at the United Nations

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 03.18.2010 | World

Read More: Darfur, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Unesco, Goldstone Report, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Obama One Year Later, Unicef, UN Security Council, World News

Obama has compiled an extraordinary list of accomplishments already at the UN. Let's begin with his decision to appoint a new ambassador, Susan Rice, who actually believes in the UN.

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Tango on UNESCO world heritage list

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Argentina, Tango Unesco, Uruguay, Tango, Unesco, Unesco Tango, United Nations, World News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Tango was declared part of the world's cultural heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the intern...

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Farouk Hosny: UNESCO Loss Due To Jewish Conspiracy "Cooked Up In New York"

AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Farouk Hosny Anti-Semitism, Farouk Hosny, Irina Bokova, Farouk Hosny Jews, Unesco, Farouk Hosny Unesco, United Nations, Farouk Hosni Unesco, Farouk Hosni Unesco Election, Irina Bokova Jew, Hosni Jews, World News

CAIRO — Egypt's culture minister on Wednesday blamed a conspiracy "cooked up in New York" by the world's Jews for keeping him from becoming the ...

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Media Literacy 101: Of Toilets, UNESCO and Demand-Side News

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Unesco, Youtube, Obama, Twitter, Media News, Media Literacy, Facebook, Media News

UNESCO wants to teach teachers the world over to incorporate media literacy training in their classrooms, and the Paris workshop is an early step in its launch.

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22 Girls from Slum in Delhi, India Enroll in School with Help from Fathers

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Deepalaya, Illiteracy, Paraya Dhan, Slums, Fada, Chief Minister Delhi, Unesco, Father and Daughter Alliance, Fathers' Association for Daughters' Advancement, Girls Education, Fathers, World News

There are close to 3,000 girls who are not attending school in three slums alone, and Father and Daughter Alliance intends to bring them all to school as its work in Delhi expands.

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Irina Bokova Wins UNESCO Race, Defeats Controversial Egyptian Farouk Hosny

AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Irina Bokova, Foreign Affairs, Egypt, Bulgaria, Unesco, Farouk Hosny Unesco, Farouk Hosny, Irina Bokova Unesco, Irina Bokova Bulgaria, Bokova, Bokova Unesco, Irina Bokova Israel, Irena Bokova, Irina Bukova, World News

PARIS — A Bulgarian diplomat on Tuesday became the first woman to lead the U.N.'s agency for culture and education, beating out a controversial ...

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Will UNESCO Be Faithful to Its Values?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Farouk Hosni Unesco, Farouk Hosni, Unesco, World News

This week, the UNESCO voters will have a choice between two women with nothing to disqualify them and a man whose entire past speaks against the institution's ideals.

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Band-e-Amir Pictures: Photos Of Afghanistan's First National Park

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Slideshow, Hindu Kush, Unesco, Afghanistan, Us, Band-E-Amir, National Park, Afghanistan War, World News

Afghanistan designated it's first national park this year, Band-e-Amir. The 228-square-mile park is a group of six lakes situated high in the Hindu Ku...

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Egyptian Minister Forced to Apologize for Threatening to Burn Books About Israel

Joseph Freeman | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Farouk Hosny, New York Times, Unesco, Bernard Henri Levy, Serena Williams, Joe Wilson, Kanye West, Egypt, Roger Cohen, World News

Hosny publicly said that he would burn all the books in Alexandria's library that had anything to do with Israel. He also called Israeli culture "racist."

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An Appeal to World Leaders: Protest the Election of Farouk Hosni

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Farouk Hosni Unesco, Unesco, Farouk Hosni, Unesco World Heritage, Egpyt, Farouk Hosny, Farouk Hosni Protest, World News

Farouk Hosni, Egypt's minister of culture and candidate for director-general of UNESCO, threatens the organization's legitimacy, competence and means of action.

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Let's Not Put UNESCO in the Hands of a Culture Cop

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Farouk Hosni Unesco, Farouk Hosni, Unesco, World News

Will UNESCO designate as its head a man who is now famous for having promised to burn with his own hands books written in Hebrew?

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U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex Ed Guidelines

Yahoo! News | BRUCE CRUMLEY / PARIS | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Unesco, Sex, American Conservatives, Conservatives Sex Education, Sex Education Conservatives, Comprehensive Sex Education, Us Conservatives, Unesco Sex Education, Sex Education, World News

Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a ...

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Saudis Struggle With How to Treat Pre-Islamic Artifacts Unearthed in Saudi Arabia

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Madain Saleh, Judaism, Sultan Bin Salman, Unesco, Saudi Arabia, Christianity, Muslims, Churches, Archeology, Unesco World Heritage, Sheikh Mohammed Al Nujaimi, World News

The discoveries at Madain Saleh pose something of a dilemma for Saudis.

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UNESCO: Bablyon Historic Site Damaged By US In Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: World Heritage, Iraq Archaeology, Babylon, US Damage, World Heritage Sites, US in Iraq, US Troops, Iraq History, Unesco, Bablyon Historic Site, Historic City, Historic Iraq Site, Historic Preservation, Historic Iraq Site of Bablyon, Iraq Architecture, Iraq, Bablyon, War Wire, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraq's U.S.-led invaders inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and diggi...

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G8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education

Desmond Bermingham | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Education for All Fast Track Initiative, Education, Unesco, Global Fund for Education, Climate Change, United Nations, World Bank, Financial Crisis, G8 Summit, FTI Catalytic Fund, Food Security, World News

Despite repeated pledges to help, donors and international funding agencies are not doing enough to help. National economies recover but kids will have lost the opportunity of a lifetime.

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