Egypt
- World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/ Thanks to David Petersen for pointing me at this website. I could have sworn that I had featured it before but I cannot find it in any searches made on the blog, but apologies if this is a duplicated post. Mission The World Digital...
- New Initiative From Unesco - University And Heritage Programme
The Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme Full details can be found in the 6-page FUUH brochure (in PDF format). International network of co-operation in the field of higher education aimed at professors, scholars, professionals and postgraduate...
- Egypt Confirms Its Keenness On Boosting Unesco Rol
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Hani Helal during his speech to the UNESCO Executive Council in Paris, delivered on his behalf by Dr. Shadia Qenawi the Head of Egypt's delegation to the UNESCO,...
- Satellites In Support Of World Heritage
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...
- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...
Egypt
UNESCO 60th Birthday
http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2005/11/20/nation/nation1
"UNESCO, the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organisation, marked its 60th anniversary last week (on Wednesday 16 November) with a call for world peace and the respect of human diversity. The constitution of the UNESCO was prepared by a conference convened in London in 1945 and UNESCO came into being on 4 November 1946. UNESCO’s primary aim is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication to make war unthinkable. Today there are 191 members and six observer status nations . . . . Meanwhile, a two-day symposium of some 60 historians, anthropologists and philosophers, gathered in the French capital to reflect on the UN body’s mission and its goals for the next five years. Born from an agreement signed by 37 countries in London, exactly 60 years ago, the UN’s cultural organisation is probably best known around the globe for its list of over 800 protected World Heritage Sites. They notably include the Abu Simbel temple complex near Aswan on the upper Nile, for which UNESCO mounted a spectacular rescue operation in the 1960s and 70s, after Egypt decided to build a dam that would have put the 3,300 year-old masterpieces under water".
See The Rising Nepal website for the full story.
- World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/ Thanks to David Petersen for pointing me at this website. I could have sworn that I had featured it before but I cannot find it in any searches made on the blog, but apologies if this is a duplicated post. Mission The World Digital...
- New Initiative From Unesco - University And Heritage Programme
The Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage Programme Full details can be found in the 6-page FUUH brochure (in PDF format). International network of co-operation in the field of higher education aimed at professors, scholars, professionals and postgraduate...
- Egypt Confirms Its Keenness On Boosting Unesco Rol
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Hani Helal during his speech to the UNESCO Executive Council in Paris, delivered on his behalf by Dr. Shadia Qenawi the Head of Egypt's delegation to the UNESCO,...
- Satellites In Support Of World Heritage
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...
- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...