Their office is prepared to introduce measures to secure and maintain the schools of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in cooperation with the organization for the modernization, development and equipping of schools in the country.
Letter addressed to Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, by Ms. Irina Bokova, former Director General of UNESCO
UNESCO and the Iranian university of environment will co-host an ethics teachers’ training course in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, from July 9-13.
The UNESCO crowned Sharjah with the prestigious 'World Book Capital' for 2019 for the quality of its literary and cultural activities and for its efforts to make books accessible to the entire population of the nation.
After Syria, Iraq has the third largest number of IDPs in the world – 4.4 million (figures from “UNHCR Global Trends 2015”) with the majority of school-aged IDPs lacking access to education. With military operations currently underway in Mosul, it is expected that up to an additional 1 million people could be forcibly displaced due to violence and conflict.
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (October 27) was commemorated on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by the Head of Iran National Library and Archives Reza Salehi-Amiri and Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Farhadi.
Director and Representative of UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office Esther Kuisch Laroche lauded Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) for its extensive cooperation with her organization on registration of historical and ancient sites.
A University of Tehran student of political science has been nominated for receiving UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.
The Tazkirah-i Arafat al-Ashiqin wa Arasat al-Arifin, a biographical dictionary of Persian poets compiled by Safavid-era scholar Taqi ad-Din Mohammad Awhadi Balyani (1565-ca. 1640), has been added to the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Register of the Memory of the World.
Head of Iran’s National Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culural Organization Saadollah Nasiri Qidari said many Iranian historical and natural sites have to wait for the next four or even five decades to get registered in the organization.
