02/10/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/10/2021 10:36
UNESCO research shows women career scientists still face gender bias
Despite a shortage of skills in most of the technological fields driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, women still account for only 28% of engineering graduates and 40% of graduates in computer science and informatics, according to the forthcoming UNESCO Science Report, whose chapter on gender in science, entitled
To be Smart the Digital Revolution will Need to be Inclusive, is published on 11 February to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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01/26/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/27/2021 00:37
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, UNESCO mobilizes governments and the private sector, including Facebook to fight denial and antisemitism
Paris, 27 January - On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust today, UNESCO will announce a number of initiatives to combat denial and antisemitism, during a high-level ceremony organized with the United Nations, in partnership with the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IRHA). UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Director-General Azoulay, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will participate.
UNESCO, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and Facebook have collaborated to ensure that denial, distortion and disinformation about the Holocaust are not spread on the social media platform. From today, Facebook will redirect its users searching for terms associated with the Holocaust, denial or distortion to the www.a
01/18/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/18/2021 13:56
Kenya prepares for regional training workshops on the protection of underwater cultural heritage
A Japan Funds-in-Trust to UNESCO project has provided diving equipment to the National Museums of Kenya s Department of Coastal Archaeology in preparation for two regional capacity-building workshops on the protection of underwater cultural heritage to be held in the second half of 2021 for 18 participants from across the Africa region.
The UNESCO project Building Capacity and Raising Awareness for Underwater Cultural Heritage Research in Africa aims to increase capacities of African underwater archaeologists from Angola, Benin, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Mauritius and Sudan, and raise awareness among community and government stakeholders about the urgency and importance of protecting and promoting underwater cultural heritag