Winners of World Heritage Photo Contest

Third Prize Winner: Saint Catherine Area, Egypt
Photo by John Deaton
World Heritage inscribed 2002

Friends of World Heritage has announced the winners of its contest for the best images of World Heritage sites. A panel of judges—including experts on photography, responsible tourism, and World Heritage preservation from National Geographic, SacredSites.com, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Mexico Tourism Board, Solimar International, Expedia and the UN Foundation—reviewed nearly 600 photographs of World Heritage sites located in more than 70 countries, submitted by avid travelers to select the winners.

Click here to see the Grand Prize and second place winners!

Friends of World Heritage is an initiative of UNESCO's World Heritage Center, Expedia.com, and the United Nations Foundation.

Winners of World Heritage Photo Contest

Third Prize Winner: Saint Catherine Area, Egypt
Photo by John Deaton
World Heritage inscribed 2002

Friends of World Heritage has announced the winners of its contest for the best images of World Heritage sites. A panel of judges—including experts on photography, responsible tourism, and World Heritage preservation from National Geographic, SacredSites.com, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Mexico Tourism Board, Solimar International, Expedia and the UN Foundation—reviewed nearly 600 photographs of World Heritage sites located in more than 70 countries, submitted by avid travelers to select the winners.

Click here to see the Grand Prize and second place winners!

Friends of World Heritage is an initiative of UNESCO's World Heritage Center, Expedia.com, and the United Nations Foundation.

Launch of UNESCO's World Centre for Language Documentation

Debbie Garside, CEO, WLDC
© UNESCO

The World Language Documentation Center (WLDC), to include world-renowned experts in language technologies, linguistics, terminology standardization, and localization, was officially launched on 9 May 2007 at the offices of UNESCO in Paris.

The WLDC promotes multilingualism in cyberspace and the maintenance and sustainability of information about the languages of the world.

Launch of UNESCO's World Centre for Language Documentation

Debbie Garside, CEO, WLDC
© UNESCO

The World Language Documentation Center (WLDC), to include world-renowned experts in language technologies, linguistics, terminology standardization, and localization, was officially launched on 9 May 2007 at the offices of UNESCO in Paris.

The WLDC promotes multilingualism in cyberspace and the maintenance and sustainability of information about the languages of the world.

Meeting of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO will hold its annual meeting on:

Monday, May 21
and
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

at the

Marriott Georgetown University Conference Center and Hotel,
3800 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC.

The theme of this year's annual meeting is "UNESCO as Capacity Builder: Pursuing its mandate through Education, the Sciences, Culture and Communications."

The keynote address will discuss the Department of State's Strategic Plan and Transformational Diplomacy Plan as it relates to IO and UNESCO.

The meetings will be open to the public, and those who wish to attend should contact the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO (202-663-0026; DCUNESCO@state.gov).

Click here for the Agenda for the meeting.

Click here for more information on the meeting.

Click here for Directions to the Conference Center.

Meeting of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO will hold its annual meeting on:

Monday, May 21
and
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

at the

Marriott Georgetown University Conference Center and Hotel,
3800 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC.

The theme of this year's annual meeting is "UNESCO as Capacity Builder: Pursuing its mandate through Education, the Sciences, Culture and Communications."

The keynote address will discuss the Department of State's Strategic Plan and Transformational Diplomacy Plan as it relates to IO and UNESCO.

The meetings will be open to the public, and those who wish to attend should contact the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO (202-663-0026; DCUNESCO@state.gov).

Click here for the Agenda for the meeting.

Click here for more information on the meeting.

Click here for Directions to the Conference Center.

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

May 21st is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development!

In celebration of the day, UNESCO will will bring together about forty experts from the academic community, notably with philosophical, history, anthropological, political science, history of religions and cultural studies backgrounds as well as representatives from intergovernmental and non governmental organizations. The meeting, organized by UNESCO in cooperation with ALECSO, aims at translating into concrete policy proposals the principles of cultural diversity and inter-cultural dialog, based on a critical analysis of the terminology used among the intellectual community and policy-makers.

Click here to read more.