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Dr Khaled El-Enany. Illustration: TBS

A visionary leader for UNESCO: Dr Khaled El-Enany and Egypt's global promise

Egyptologist and Egypt’s former minister of tourism and antiquities Dr Khaled El-Enany has been nominated as Egypt's candidate for the position of head of UNESCO and his candidacy is being...

Mourners, including colleagues, carry the bodies of Palestinian journalists Mohammed Soboh and Saeed al-Taweel, who were killed when an Israeli missile hit a building while they were outside reporting, at a hospital in Gaza City, October 10, 2023. File Photo: REUTERS/Arafat Barbakh

UNESCO tracks surge in journalist killings in 2022-23

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, on August 10, 2024. File Photo: AFP

UNESCO warns of global spike in attacks on students, educational facilities

A general view of the Grand al-Nuri mosque as rebuilding work continues in Mosul, Iraq June 5, 2024, 10 years after Islamic State militants seized control of the city and ruled for three years before being ousted by Iraqi forces and their allies. Photo: REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily

Five IS bombs found hidden in iconic Iraq mosque: UN agency

This picture taken on 18 January 2022 shows renovations at the al-Nuri mosque in the old town of Iraq’s northern city Mosul. Photo: AFP

Five IS bombs found hidden in iconic Iraq mosque: UN agency

Mourners react as they attend the funeral of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa, who according to the Arabic broadcaster was killed by an Israeli drone strike on Friday while reporting on the earlier bombing of a school sheltering displaced people but Israel's military did not respond to a request for comment, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 16, 2023. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud/File Photo

Unesco awards World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists in Gaza

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Yunus Centre issues statement on 'Tree of Peace' award

Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel. Sketch: TBS

Yunus' 'Tree of Peace' award conferred by Israeli sculptor not Unesco: Edu minister

Photo: Mohammed Minhaj Uddin

Water crisis threaten world peace; 2.2 billion still live without access to safe drinking water: UN Report

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Vinicius Jr appointed UNESCO goodwill ambassador

Susan Vize, newly appointed head of the UNESCO Office and UNESCO representative to Bangladesh, met with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today (14 December). Photo: Courtesy

Momen thanks UNESCO for inscribing Rickshaw painting as intangible Cultural Heritage

Representational image. Photo: Pixabay

UNESCO recognises Ramadan meal tradition of iftar

Some governments are making rules that could hurt the open internet and UNESCO's guidelines might make it worse. Photo: Collected

UNESCO's blueprint for the ‘new internet’: Data protection or censorship?