A total of 26 new sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list this year, 21 of which are of cultural importance to ...

UNESCO has granted World Heritage status to the Murujuga Cultural Landscape — an area of ancient aboriginal rock art in ...

UNESCO member states meet later this week on the Biden administration’s bid to rejoin the Paris-based U.N. scientific and cultural body, a move that will inject hundreds of millions of welcome ...

PARIS — UNESCO’s 193 members states are gathering Thursday for a two-day meeting in Paris aimed at voting on the United States’ plans to rejoin the UN cultural and scientific agency after a ...

Unesco members vote overwhelmingly—but not unanimously—to readmit the United States. The US will have to repay $619m in dues that accrued after it ceased paying in 2011 but before its formal ...

UNESCO's 193 members states are gathering Thursday for a two-day meeting in Paris aimed at voting on the United States' plans to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency after a decade-long ...

UNESCO's member states backed the United States' return to the United Nations' cultural organization almost five years after then-President Donald Trump ordered an American withdrawal, U.S ...

U.S. wants UNESCO membership back after exiting during the Trump years The U.S. could ... The U.S. cut funding off under former President Obama in 2011 following a vote by UNESCO member states to ...

PARIS — UNESCO’s 193 members states are gathering Thursday for a two-day meeting in Paris aimed at voting on the United States’ plans to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency after ...

The 193 member states of the United Nations’ cultural agency are expected to back the United States' return to the organisation almost five years after then-President Donald Trump withdrew over ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization gathered its 193 members Friday to approve the United States returning as a full-fledged member to the U.N. committee. “With ...

UNESCO's Guillermo Cano Prize. UNESCO member states created the World Press Freedom Prize in 1997. The only U.N. prize awarded to journalists, it is named after Colombian newspaper journalist ...