The laureate was announced ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3 on the recommendation of an international independent ...

Well, UNESCO’s Global Geoparks designation, which was founded back in 2015, is a great place to start, and 12 new regions ...

With two months left until the annual World Heritage Committee meeting in July, an inspection team from Unesco has completed ...

UNESCO officials visited South Korea last week to review preparations for an upcoming meeting of the World Heritage Committee ...

Global and local contributions" reveals 2,260 living sites where people and nature coexist, from Dja to Greenland, shaped by ...

The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program is a remarkable initiative carried out by resourceful, dedicated communities around the world who develop multi-pronged, sustainable ecosystems with ...

Fifteen years ago, UNESCO launched International Jazz Day with one simple idea: that jazz is more than music—it is a force for peace, understanding and harmonious coexistence. T ...

In Icelandic, "Vatnajökull" means "the water glacier." At over 3,000 square miles, this massive ice cap covers more than eight percent of Iceland. "I remember the first time I seen a glacier, it moved ...

The stewards of the Northeast’s tallest mountain are pushing for it to join the ranks of World Heritage Sites like ...

The Moroccan city’s claim to this year’s UNESCO World Book Capital follows the likes of Rio de Janeiro in 2025, Strasbourg in ...