He took a particular interest in promoting education in Africa, leading the UK Delegation to UNESCO and increasing resources for teacher training.
Construction was funded by a tax on eastern spices, and over time came to represent Portuguese historical discoveries, becoming over time a national monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site, housing (in addition to the religious art and furniture from its past) artefacts and exhibitions like the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (National Archaeological Museum) and the Museu da Marinha (Maritime Museum) within its walls.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) monitors both the number and type of
On July 9, 2013 President Obama announced his intent to nominate Ms. Nix-Hines as United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador.
The first president of the Committee was Jerzy Kłoczowski, long-time member of the UNESCO Executive Council and president of the Institute of East-Central Europe in Lublin.
After UNESCO declared 2007 as Year of Rumi, he was achieved the clemency and example behaviour prize by Turkish Football Coaches Association.
During his varied career, Davis was a journalism instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters during World War II, a member of the UNESCO Relations Staff of the Sate Department, and a professor of history at both Kansas State and the University of Kansas.
UNESCO proclaimed Kihnu's cultural space and traditions as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 7, 2003.
Renovation of the renaissance murals started in 1987 with the help of UNESCO.
Edith S. Sampson (LL.M.), alternate U.S. delegate to the United Nations, member of the UN's Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee, member of the U.S. Commission for UNESCO, U.S. representative to NATO, first black woman to be elected as a judge in the United States
Maloya was inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO for France.
He served on the first U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, on the National Research Council Committee on Growth, and on the U.S. Committee for the International Geophysical Year.
The conservation of this private building was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2004 annual UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards.The head of the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu, Ms. Koto Kanno, presented the award to Mr. Rabindra Puri, owner of the Namuna Ghar.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO has recognized the outstanding restoration of Namuna Ghar, Bhaktapur at a ceremony held on October 24, 2005.
Orbicom-UNESCO, a UNESCO committee fostering education and growth of communications technology internationally.
He also holds the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Rivers at the University of Washington.
Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark.
In 2005, "Taquile and Its Textile Art" were honored by being proclaimed "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO.
On 25 November 2005 the UNESCO included the Tarasque on the list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
UNESCO World Youth Festival "Dialogue Among Civilizations" 2001
It was inaugurated in 1996, following the 1995 United Nations Year for Tolerance and in connection with the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi, funded by a donation from Madanjeet Singh.
:Honourable mentions: Jaime Castillo Velasco, Chile; Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden.
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It was renamed on 5 May 2008 under the terms of a memorandum of understanding with Mayor of Bilbao Iñaki Azkuna whereby the municipality of Bilbao agreed to fund the prize for a period of three years.
He was awarded an honorary award by UNESCO and Honorary Diploma of the Union of Writers of Missouri (USA).
They are included in the newly established UNESCO world nature heritage site in the archipelago of Kvarken.
The most comprehensive was the Defence Line of Amsterdam (Stelling van Amsterdam), a circular inundation zone around Amsterdam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The airport will be located in the town of Xiannüshan (仙女山), 43 kilometers from the urban center of Wulong, and will mainly serve tourists visiting the Wulong Karst landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
He continued his career from 1956 onwards, serving as Indian delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1956–1957 and to UNESCO in 1958.
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An African reference alphabet was first proposed in 1978 by a UNESCO-organized conference held in Niamey, Niger, and the proposed alphabet was revised in 1982.
It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ak Astana-Baba is a mausoleum that is located in the Surxondaryo Province of Uzbekistan The mausoleum is being considered for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
In 1951, he obtained a UNESCO grant, allowing him to travel to Paris and meet with intellectuals from Africanist circles, notably Marcel Griaule.
Patronage:
German Commission for UNESCO and the Ministers for the Environment of two German States: Baden Wuerttemberg and Lower Saxony.
He worked as Reporter in Eenadu Telugu news daily from 1989 to 1993, later he worked as Script Writer in State Institute of Education Technology (SIET), Doordarshan (a UNESCO aided Educational Project).
In addition, he is the co-founder, with René Berger, of the Study Group on Transdisciplinarity at UNESCO (1992) and the founder and Director of the "Transdisciplinarity" Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco and of the "Romanians of Paris", Piktos/Oxus Editions, Paris.
The Bath Preservation Trust is an independent charity based in Bath, Somerset, England which exists to safeguard the historic character of the city of Bath, the only complete city in the UK that (along with its environs) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and to champion its sustainable future.
He has been chairman of the History Department of the University College, Nairobi, edited Volume V of UNESCO's History of Africa, and presided over the committee that oversaw the production of the entire History.
UNESCO is the arm of the United Nations charged with defending freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
In 2004, "Bright Side of the Road", was featured in the UNESCO advertisements for World Press Freedom Day.
He served as president of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters and was a member of US delegations to UNESCO.
1800 (based in part on his doctoral thesis, 1936), sections written for The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (1961), the coauthoring of Volume 4 of the UNESCO History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development.
He was also a Rhodes Scholar and he subsequently worked for Burmah-Shell Oil and UNESCO as well as being an active sports administrator in India.
Eusebio Leal Spengler, (born 11 September 1942, in Havana, Cuba), is the Havana City Historian, director of the restoration program of Old Havana and its historical center, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Deputy to the National Assembly of the Popular Power in the IV, V and VI Legislature, Ambassador of Good Will of the United Nations, the University of Havana and has his masters in Latin American, Caribbean, and Cuban Studies.
Vanuatu former Foreign Affairs Minister and former chairman of the Vanuatu National Commission for UNESCO Joe Natuman expressed surprise at his country's position, saying it appeared to contradict Vanuatu's long-standing support for Palestine.
The site has also benefited in recent years from the UNESCO funded Malta Mosaics Project, which mapped mosaics and pavements at Għajn Tuffieha and the Domvs Romana.
He has conducted major excavations in Gujarat (Rojdi, Babar Kot and Oriyo Timbo), Rajasthan (Gilund), and in January 2007, began an excavation at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman.
There are currently ten parks, with four them registered as World Heritage Sites by the UNESCO.
On March 12, Sikhs for Justice met with UNESCO director general Irina Bokova in New York to discuss preserving the ruins as a heritage site.
In 1950, he was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and would also be commissioned to do a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris.
The trail start at Lukla and Jorsale is the last settlement before Namche, the main stopping point for trekkers on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest), one of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.
From 1974 until his death he was an advisor to UN agencies UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, and about 35 African governments from his base in Nairobi.
On 5 November 2013 the General Conference elected Hao Ping, the Vice-Minister of Education of China as President of UNESCO's 37th General Conference.
Koutammouko, the Land of the Batammariba is a cultural landscape designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Togo.
During World War II the abbey gave shelter to Robert Schuman, the future distinguished French politician and champion of the European Union, in August 1942 while he was waiting for passage to the free zone, as well as to Amadou Bow of Senegal, future director of UNESCO.
Starting in 1968 he worked for UNESCO as an international functionary of the United Nations and held various positions in Paris, Havana, and Caracas: Service Chief of Radio and Television in the Spanish Language, Regional Adviser of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Regional Director for the same region, Ombudsman in the Parisian headquarters and Coordinator, from Caracas, of the activities of the same organization in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Manovo-Gounda St.Floris National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Central African Republic prefecture Bamingui-Bangoran, near the Chad border.
Market Street is a street within the core zone of the Penang capital, Georgetown, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In 1977, the Director-General visited the Universal Congress of Esperanto in Reykjavík, Iceland and in 1985, UNESCO passed a further resolution recommending that member countries encourage the teaching of Esperanto.
It is part of the defence line of Muiden, that is part of the Stelling van Amsterdam, the UNESCO World Heritage site that consists of a set of forts around the city of Amsterdam.
He then commenced his more academic career as UNESCO-IBM Professor of Information Technology ate Southampton University on secondment from IBM, a progression which has continued to the present.
Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol of the Sierra Gorda in the Mexican state of Querétaro were declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2003.
Sulyandziga's home region is the Bikin River valley, located in close proximity to the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, which was designated UNESCO World Heritage in 2001.
They were confirmed as this in 2001 in the UNESCO meeting in Helsinki.
As professor and researcher Cardoso taught at the Latin American College of Social Sciences (Flacso/Unesco), University of Chile (Santiago), Maison des Sciences de L'Homme (Paris), University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University (New York).
Named after the nearby town of Sivand located northwest of Shiraz, it has become the center of worldwide concern due to the flooding it will cause in historical and archaeologically rich areas of Ancient Persia and possible harm it may cause to the nearby UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Persepolis and Pasargadae.
In 2000, he became a winner of the international art contest among countries of the Caspian Sea organized by UNDP, TACIS, with the support of UNESCO.
The movie is filmed entirely on location in Penang at the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, a UNESCO Architectural Heritage Award recipient, over 6 weeks in 2008.
A flat, dry place, this hotel is the main gateway for tourists to Khiva 35 kilometres to the southeast, whose old city, known as Itchan Kala, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This year, RTP devoted the festival to fado that marked the accession of traditional Portuguese music to UNESCO’s Oral and Intangible World Heritage list.
Wikipedia for World Heritage refers to the efforts put forth to get Wikipedia listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
That same year she was chosen as one of the most important Latin American writers under 39 years of age as part of Bogotá39 convened by UNESCO, the Hay Festival and the Ministry of Culture in Bogotá.