Tag: UNESCO
Call for Papers: The Water, Megacities and Global Change Conference 2020...
UNESCO, ARCEAU-IdF, SIAAP and the Greater Paris Metropolis invite you to submit abstracts (10-15 lines) which highlight the current challenges related to water, megacities,...
UNESCO Youth Eyes on the silk Roads Photo Contest 2019
The visual arts, and in particular photography, are increasingly being used by today’s youth as a powerful tool for communication and self-expression. As such,...
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2020
UNESCO invites the governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, as well as international and regional professional non-governmental organizations, active in...
World AIDS Day 2019
"At the beginning of the fourth decade of the HIV endemic, profound stigma and discrimination is a fact of life for those with the...
Applications open for the UNESCO Young Professionals Programme (YPP) 2018
UNESCO has now opened applications for The Young Professionals’ Programme (YPP). The program aims at bringing in young professionals improving the geographical representation of...
Nepal-UNESCO collaboration continues
Kathmandu, March 29, 2018: The United Nation Educational, Science, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) partnership with Nepal have completed 20 years. UNESCO has been...
Kapilvastu identified as a district with highest number of archaeological sites
Kapilvastu, February 25, 2018: A latest archaeological excavation carried out under the aegis of the Department of Archaeology has discovered that Kapilvastu has the...
Prajesh Khanal: A young environmentalist who made his school the first...
Glocal 20 Under 20
17-years-old Prajesh Khanal is currently studying in Himalaya Higher Secondary School in class 12.
He has been committed and contributed to preserving...
Call for Entries: UNESCO’s Open Photography Competition to celebrate ‘International Literacy...
Kathmandu, August 12, 2017: On the occasion of 51st International Literacy Day, 8 September 2017, UNESCO Office in Kathmandu, in collaboration with the Non-Formal...
Workshops on Comprehensive Sexuality Education empower girls and young women
Various studies show that the majority of Nepalese adolescents lack the knowledge required to make decisions responsibly, leaving them vulnerable to coercion, sexually transmitted...
Call for Applications: United Nations Traineeship Programme – Cohort VI
United Nations in Nepal has called for applications from potential Nepali candidates belonging from Socially Excluded Groups for a traineeship programme with UN Agencies....
Call for Applications: World Heritage Young Professionals Forum 2017
“Memory: Lost and Recovered Heritage”
The Polish National Commission for UNESCO and the International Cultural Centre in Krakow are going to hold the World Heritage...
Call for Applications: The Female Champions 2017
Do you believe in gender equality and social change? Do you think you have what it takes to be a Female Champion?
The Female Champions...
Heritage Inventory at Hanumandhoka completes
Kathmandu, December 18, 2016: A project to create an inventory documenting objects recovered from Hanumandhoka Durbar Square, a site located at the heart of...
Post-disaster excavations carried out at quake-damaged Hanumandhoka Durbar Square
Kathmandu, December 12, 2016: A post-disaster rescue excavation has been conducted at earthquake-damaged monuments in the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site aiming towards...
Yoga Joins UNESCO World Heritage List
Mind-body discipline is added to intangible cultural heritage list along with Cuba’s rumba and Peruvian scissors dance
December 2, 2016: Yoga, the mind-body discipline based...
UNESCO Supports Incorporation of ICT Competency into Teachers Development
Kathmandu, November 11, 2016: UNESCO, in collaboration with National Centre for Education Development (NCED) recently conducted a three-day workshop on incorporating ICT (Information and...
Call for Applications: Travel to Learn Arts and Crafts in France
UNESCO and the Fondation Culture & Diversité established in France in 2006, call for applications for grants under the ‘Travelling to Learn Arts and...
World Teachers Day being observed today
Kathmandu, October 5, 2016:Â With the theme ' Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status', the World Teachers' Day is being observed across the country organizing various...
Photography Competition being organized to celebrate 50th International Literacy Day
Powerful images can affect social change. Today, photographers continue to use the camera to win support for social causes: poverty and women’s rights, climate...
Promoting Community Learning Centers as Lifelong Learning Resource Centers
Kathmandu, August 29, 2016: In order to promote Community Learning Center(CLC)s as lifelong learning resource centers at community level, UNESCO in collaboration with the...
International Youth Week Celebrated with Flash Mob
Kathmandu, August 25, 2016: Female Champions from the UNESCO recently organized a flash mob to celebrate the International Youth Week, in two different locations...
International Youth Day celebrated awarding Essay Competition Winners
The well-being of a nation depends on the levels of awareness and agency of its youth. Yet, many young men and women face barriers...
50 Female Champions in Nepal make Gender Equality their priority
Kathmandu, July 12, 2016: A group of 50 Female Champions has been working on several projects promoting girls' and women's empowerment across different places...
