UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Brasilia from 25 July to 3 August

The Committee is holding its 34th session. It is considering requests submitted by 33 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention for the inscription of new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

• World Heritage Committee session
• See latest press releases on the Committee's decisions
  

Winners of UNESCO Literacy Prizes for 2010 are announced

This year’s UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize and UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, as well as two Honourable Mentions, will go to innovative projects in Cape Verde, Germany, Nepal, Egypt, Malawi and Colombia. The award ceremony will take place at UNESCO in Paris on International Literacy Day, 8 September.

• Press release
• More about the laureates

World Social Science Report 2010

The social sciences, which were dominated by western universities for a long time, are gaining ground in Asia and in Latin America, according to a report by the International Social Sciences Council (ISSC), published jointly with UNESCO. Entitled “Knowledge Divides”, it is a worldwide status report about these disciplines.

Open the Report

UNESCO Director-General to the Republic of Azerbaijan until 1 August

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova is making her first official visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan. She is meeting President Ilham Aliyev and opening the Gabala International Music Festival.

• The Director-General's website

Biodiversity is life: International Year of Biodiversity 2010

During the Year, UNESCO will lead activities to raise awareness of the importance of conserving biodiversity. The latest issue of UNESCO's newsletter "A World of Science" discusses the Global Diversity Outlook report released by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

• Global Diversity Outlook
• IYB Activities
• Official IYB website
• Interview with Edward Wilson
• IYB traveling exhibition