Obama Gets Good Grades at the United Nations
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.
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.
AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Tango was declared part of the world's cultural heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the intern...
AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
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 ...
Susan Moeller | Posted 10.04.2009 | Media
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.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
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.
AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
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 ...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
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.
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
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...
Joseph Freeman | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
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."
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
Farouk Hosni, Egypt's minister of culture and candidate for director-general of UNESCO, threatens the organization's legitimacy, competence and means of action.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
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?
Yahoo! News | BRUCE CRUMLEY / PARIS | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
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 ...
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
The discoveries at Madain Saleh pose something of a dilemma for Saudis.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's U.S.-led invaders inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and diggi...
Desmond Bermingham | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
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.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
When girls abroad are treated as objects or animals, our own daughters' dignity is diminished. Ultimately, all of them are our daughters.
Ivonne A-Baki | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
If the world's poor are to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and onto the path of development, culture is both a means and ends for doing so.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
An open call to Barack Obama, to Nicolas Sarkozy, and to others: Before October, the date of his already claimed victory, we must block Mr. Farouk Hosni from becoming the Director General of UNESCO.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
We must, without delay, appeal to everyone's conscience to keep UNESCO from falling into the hands of a man, who when he hears the word "culture," responds with a book burning.
CBC News | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
The World Digital Library went live on Tuesday, aiming to provide a one-stop shop for researchers, teachers and schoolchildren seeking to find items o...
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
We absolutely need to work together, women and men, fathers and mothers, in the education and protection of all children -- especially girls.
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.26.2009 | World
** See photos from the museum below ** BAGHDAD — Iraq's restored National Museum was formally dedicated on Monday, nearly six years after loot...
Ari Herzog | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
At a time when the World Bank describes the Obama Administration as embracing e-government themes, why does the President-elect's own tech roadmap fail to mention it by name?
Paige Donner | Posted 11.03.2008 | Green
Water Innovation Now Contest 2008 is a win-win program for Southern California students. Not only will they participate and have a voice in coming up ...
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 11.03.2009 | World