Tag: UNESCO

  • Nation & World

    Examining COVID’s impact on Asians and Pacific Islanders

    Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.

    4 minutes
    Asian family wzaalking across street.
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    Bhabha awarded Humboldt prize

    Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, wins a Humboldt Research Prize.

    2 minutes
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    ‘The Choice’ premiere

    Written approximately 20 years after Elie Wiesel was freed from imprisonment in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps, “The Choice” is having a staged reading at Sanders Theatre on Sunday. It marks a premiere for the recently rediscovered work.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A Paris errand

    At a UNESCO ceremony in Paris, Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha underscored the global need for a “new humanism” that peacefully connects a culturally diverse world.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Unraveling Maya mysteries

    For decades, Harvard’s Bill Fash and his wife, Barbara, have worked in Copán, Honduras, to restore, preserve, and protect Maya culture and history for future generations.

    14 minutes
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    The rights of women

    UNESCO director-general cites progress on international rights, but says gender equality lags in regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where as many as 12 million girls never attend school.

    4 minutes
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    Reimers appointed to U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

    Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and director of the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.

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