Our Impact

Discover UNESCO's impact around the world and the organisation's endeavour to build durable peace. Follow the implemention of educational tools, the protection of cultural heritage, the achievement of sustainable development methods and many more !

Our impact over time

Education

Transforming lives through Education

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Natural Sciences

Scientific research cooperation: Why collaborate in science? Benefits and examples

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Ocean Sciences

Tsunami Warning System: Preparing for the unpredictable

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Culture

Cultural heritage: 7 successes of UNESCO’s preservation work

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Communication & Information

Threats to freedom of press: Violence, disinformation & censorship

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Africa

Working towards an African renaissance through Culture and History

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Social and Human Sciences

Promoting tolerance, human dignity and fundamental human rights

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Gender Equality

Gender equality: Women empowerment in sports and science

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Stories from the field

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Natalia Castro Nicolás: Women create key networks that sustain mountain communities and ecosystems

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Peru: Towards a school that protects and transforms

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From Normandy to Iraq : a new set of bells for the Christian Church of Mosul

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UNESCO welcomes the acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma

Field Offices

Developing strategies, programmes and activities in consultation with national authorities and other partners.

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Institutes

Discover UNESCO Institutes addressing various areas of education. Let's transform education for our humanity!

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Networks

Creating dialogue across cultures and exchanging initiatives to improve our world.

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An intergovernmental scientific programme that aims to establish a scientific basis for enhancing the relationship between people and their environments. It combines the natural and social sciences with a view to improving human livelihoods and safeguarding natural and managed ecosystems, thus promoting innovative approaches to economic development that are socially and culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable.

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Artificial Intelligence

Today, artificial intelligence plays a role in billions of people’s lives with profound social consequences.

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UNESCO observatory of killed journalists

Journalists play an instrumental role in guarenteeing democratic access to information.

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Our Impact

Our impact over time

Stories from the field

World Heritage

Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme

Our Impact

Our impact over time

Stories from the field

World Heritage

Futures of Education A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT

Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme