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  • United Nations
    US, Israel Withdraw from UNESCO

    Following the U.S. decision Thursday to quit the United Nations organization for education, science and culture, Israel announced it too will withdraw. The United States stopped funding UNESCO after the Palestinian Authority was accepted into the agency as a full member. As a member subject to membership dues, the United States accumulated a $600 million debt over the years.

  • UNESCO
    U.S. to Pull Out of UNESCO, Again

    The United States plans to formally withdraw from UNESCO, the U.N.’s Paris-based cultural, scientific and educational organization, to save money and protest what it views as the organization’s anti-Israel bias.

  • Aleppo
    UNESCO: Aleppo’s Old City can be rebuilt

    Aleppo’s Old City, shelled, burned and shot up during years of fighting in Syria’s civil war, can be rebuilt, the local representative of the United Nations cultural body UNESCO said.

  • UNESCO
    UNESCO and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reinforce cooperation to drive education reform

    The letter of agreement foresees strengthening the participation of Saudi universities in the UNITWIN programme that aims to foster international inter-university cooperation in building education and research networks, with a commitment to establish 13 UNESCO Chairs in six different institutions.

  • Middle Eastern Archaeology
    UAE and UNESCO to preserve Middle Eastern archaeology with 3D printing technology

    "Extremists want to impose a different vision on the world. They want to tell us that there is no memory, that there is no culture, that there is no heritage,” added Irinia Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO. “We join hands with Dubai Museum of the Future Foundation to participate in the effort to oppose the extremists' vision of the future and to help convey the history to future generations."

  • Archeology
    Sites in Italy, Jordan and Saudi Arabia inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    The World Heritage Committee inscribed three new cultural sites on the World Heritage List this afternoon: Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale in Italy; Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) in Jordan and Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia.

  • ISIS and Antiquities
    ISIS destroying Iraq’s cultural heritage: UNESCO chief

    ISIS has destroyed shrines, churches and precious manuscripts in Mosul, Tikrit and other areas of Iraq it controls and excavated sites to sell objects abroad, in what Bokova has previously described as "cultural cleansing". In September, officials said that ISIS militants are using intermediaries to sell priceless treasures, such as ancient Iraqi artefacts, on the black market to finance their activities. The militants gained some experience of dealing in antiquities after taking control of large parts of Syria, but when they captured the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and the Nineveh province in June, they gained access to almost 2,000 of Iraq's 12,000 registered archaeological sites.