Winners of the 2018 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize to A Canadian filmmaker & the Kenyan NGO

News UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - 16th November 2018

Canadian Filmaker & Kenyan NGO to receive 11th UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance & Non-Violence

THE UNESCO-MADANJEET SINGH PRIZE FOR THE PROMOTION OF TOLERANCE AND NON-VIOLENCE was created in 1995 to mark the United Nations Year for Tolerance, proclaimed at the initiative of UNESCO, and the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Mahatma Gandhi...

News UNESCO Headquaters, Paris - 12th November 2018

Mme France Marquet, Representative of SAF to UNESCO, attended Internet Governance Forum 2018

The thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be hosted by the Government of France at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris from 12 to 14 November 2018. The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring different stakeholder groups

News UNESCO Headquaters, Paris - 1st November 2018

Mme France Marquet, Representative of SAF to UNESCO, attended Human Face of Urbanization on World Cities Day

A day-long event was organized on 31 October by UNESCO at its Headquarters to celebrate and promote human-centred, inclusive and sustainable city management. Attended by mayors, town councilors, artists and urban stakeholders from all over the world, the day-long event under the theme

News UNESCO Headquaters, Paris - 30th October 2018

UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non- Violence renewed for another Six Years

Decision taken by the 205th Session of the UNESCO Executive Board Meeting on the renewal of UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence for a period of six years.

News UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - 8th October 2018
News Tunisia, Tunis - 28th September 2018

Mme. France Marquet, Representative of SAF to UNESCO, participated in International Day of Peace

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. The United Nations invites....

News Tunisia, Tunis - 26th September 2018
News UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - 24th September 2018

Mme. France Marquet, Representative of SAF to UNESCO, attended round table on 'Building Just & Peaceful Societies'

On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Peace on 21 September UNESCO will organize a roundtable discussion on the complex but intrinsic relationship between human rights and sustainable peace.

News UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - 11th September 2018

Applications open for the UNESCO Prize for the use of ICT in education

UNESCO is launching the call for nominations for the 2018 edition of the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education......

News UNESCO Headquaters, Paris - 1st August 2018

Ms Nandita Das in Jury for UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence 2018

Acclaimed actress-filmmaker Nandita Das was among the jury members of the 2018 edition of the Unesco-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence....