TEHRAN, Jul 7 - UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee added Iran’s Hyrcanian forests to its World Heritage List, praising the area’s "remarkable" biodiversity.
TEHRAN, Jul 6 - Iraq on Friday celebrated the UNESCO World Heritage Committee's decision to name the historic city of Babylon a World Heritage Site in a vote held in Azerbaijan's capital, years after Baghdad began campaigning for the site to be added to the list.
TEHRAN, November 20 - The U.N. culture and education agency says in a new report that more needs to be done to integrate refugee children into national educational systems.
TEHRAN, June 24 - France and Belgium are urging UNESCO to designate scores of their World War I memorials and cemeteries as World Heritage sites as the centennial remembrance of the 1914-1918 war nears its end.
TEHRAN, June 24 -Inuit hunting grounds, World War I cemeteries, Art Deco heritage in Mumbai are among 30 hopefuls in the running to join UNESCO's famous list as the World Heritage Committee meets from Sunday in Bahrain.
TEHRAN, December 7 - The sporting team game of chovgan, which is played on horseback and recognized as a version of the modern polo game, has been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
TEHRAN, November 10 - UNESCO member states on Friday overwhelmingly approved the nomination of France's former culture minister Audrey Azoulay to head the embattled cultural agency.
TEHRAN, November 9 - The team sport of polo, which is played on horseback, together with the Iranian bowed string instrument of Kamancheh are set to be added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists by the end of the current year.
TEHRAN, November 4 - Iranian Deputy Minister of Science for Education Mojtaba Shariati stressed boosting bilateral scientific and cultural cooperation between Iran and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
TEHRAN, October 15 -The US decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the UN’s educational, scientific, and cultural agency, is a further example of the contempt the world’s superpower has for the idea of the equality of nations.
TEHRAN, October 12 - The United States has announced that it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the UN's cultural organization of "anti-Israel bias."
TEHRAN, September 18 - On 20 September 2017, UNESCO will celebrate the International Peace Day with a public event at Azadi Tower, in cooperation with the Roudhaki Foundation, the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, and Day Sun Cultural Institute.
TEHRAN, August 27 - The Iranian city of Shiraz will host the coordination meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centers from September 10 to 12.
TEHRAN, July 24, YJC -Iran’s Deputy Director of Handicrafts Industry department announced the global registration of Kalpourgan village, southeastern Sisitan and Baluchestan province, as the first global village of handicrafts.
TEHRAN, July 10, YJC - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added the historical texture of Yazd in central Iran to its list of world heritage sites.
TEHRAN, July 9, YJC - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added the historical texture of Yazd in central Iran to its list of world heritage sites.
TEHRAN, July 7, YJC -UNESCO has declared the Old City of al-Khalil (al-Khalil) a protected heritage site in a secret ballot despite Israeli attempts to thwart the vote.
TEHRAN, May 30, YJC - A decision by Iran’s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution to sign a UN-devised global education agenda continues to spark reactions from officials and people. While some people slam the move as contradictory to Islamic values, some others say the document helps Iran improve its educational system.
TEHRAN, May 9, YJC - Iranian Parliament Speaker Larijani said enemies are nowadays attacking pillars of the Islamic world with terrorists paving the path for arrogance and Zionists to conspire against Muslims.
TEHRAN, May 8, YJC - The International rights groups Human Rights Watch (HRW) said a UN-sponsored forum recently held in the Saudi capital Riyadh amounted to a "slap in the face" for persecuted Saudi activists jailed across the kingdom.