Eighteen young leaders from UNESCO Associated (ASPnet) schools in nine countries gathered in the desert of Oman in February 2013, to celebrate 60 years of ASPnet in the context of the Omani Connecting Cultures programme which was set up in 2004 to promote intercultural dialogue and understanding...

Sustainable development is high on the international agenda. Integrating issues such as biodiversity, disaster risk reduction and climate change into education is a central element of promoting sustainable development. Education for Sustainable Development aims to reorient the entire education...

Filmmaker and educator David Puttnam photographed a lush Irish landscape with his tablet computer before filming his presentation for a forum on mobile learning and policy at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 20 February.

From December 10 to 12, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, in collaboration with the UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) in Canada, welcomed more than 300 students, teachers and other guests to a student conference entitled “Learning to Change our World Together”.

Less than three years from the deadline to meet the six 2015 Education for All goals, and with the need to generate a post 2015 educational agenda, Education ministers and senior representatives from the education sector in Latin America and the Caribbean are to meet in Mexico City on 29 and 30...

For some children, school is just a stroll around the corner. For others, getting to school involves braving deserts, rivers, icy wastes or dangerous urban neighbourhoods.

“My whole life, I have been bullied, abused, tormented and excluded. You are fantastic. I hope you won’t be mad at me.” With these words, scribbled on a note, twenty-year-old Tim Ribberink from Tilligte, Netherlands, said goodbye to his parents before taking his own life earlier this week.

Five puppies born in the Bolivian division of the UN Stabilization mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) are being raised to become rescue dogs in Haiti.

Undernourishment has decreased dramatically worldwide in the last twenty years according to the report: ‘The state of Food Security in the world’, a joint publication of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development...

A sprawling metropolis of some 10 million, Lagos, Nigeria, is one of Africa’s largest cities. Located on the Gulf of Guinea near the country’s western border with Benin, Lagos is the passage site for the some 2.2 million barrels of oil that Nigeria, making it a vital trading point not only for...

The inability of people to read and write because of the lack of education in developing world is, slowly but surely, coming to an end. “Yo sí puedo,” a Cuban program designed to improve literacy rates among students in poor nations, has helped numerous countries reduce illiteracy and hopes to one...