In 2012, the Earth Charter Initiative and UPEACE were jointly awarded the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter.

Iran has been awarded the UNESCO special certificate for providing telecom services to rural areas.

Iran has been awarded the UNESCO special certificate for providing telecommunication services to rural areas.

In 1956, he was awarded the Kalinga Prize by UNESCO for his work in popularizing science with his Mr. Tompkins ... series of books ( 1939 – 1967 ), his book One, Two, Three ... Infinity, and other works.

These historic buildings gained for the city the title of World Heritage Site, awarded by the UNESCO in 1998.

In June 2011, UNESCO awarded the status of a World Heritage Site.

In 2005, he was awarded the Sorano Friendship and Peace Award, the Russian International St .- Andrew-the-First-Called Prize, the insignia of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Luxembourg, and the IMC UNESCO International Music Prize, while already in 2002 he was honoured in Bonn with the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Prize for film music at the International Film Music Biennial in Bonn ( cf also: Homepage of the Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn ).

On 1 June 2010 she was awarded the UNESCO Artist for Peace title.

For this effort, which united physicians across the Cold War divide, IPPNW was awarded the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1984 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

The city has been awarded World Heritage Site status by UNESCO because of its urban structure and architecture.

As part of UNESCO membership, Albanian sites are being awarded funds for the reconstruction of important landmarks.

The university has been awarded a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO ) Chair for Information and Computer Ethics ; the fourteenth to be established in the UK.

Junoon has also been awarded several awards for their contribution towards peace and South East culture by BBC, UNESCO and South Asian Journalists Association.

It received restoration throughout the 1990s and in 2004 became the first building in Australia to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status, being one of the last remaining major 19th century exhibition buildings in the world.

In 1951 Elias was awarded a UNESCO Fellowship to undertake research into the legal, economic, and social problems of Africa.

It was awarded the Nombre D ' Or Prize for Best Documentary in 1995 by the International Broadcasting Conference's Widescreen Film Festival in Montreux, and also received the United Nations ' UNESCO Prize for Best Direction, Human Rights Programming, at the 1995 International Electronic Cinema Festival in Amsterdam.

Works of note include a Poem for 22 Strings ( 1950 ), premiered at Darmstadt, a Gogol opera, The Diary of a Madman ( 1958, awarded the first prize at UNESCO ’ s International Rostrum of Composers in 1960 ), and five symphonies ( the first of which was commercially recorded by Sir Adrian Boult ).

In 1996 he was awarded the Jan Amos Comenius Medal by UNESCO for the “ Agam Method ” for visual education of young children.

The UNESCO Pacha Prize has been awarded in 2001 to the Rustavi State Academic Ensemble of Singing and Dancing for the safeguarding and promotion of Georgian polyphonic singing in the Republic of Georgia.

In 2001, Win Tin was awarded the UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for his efforts to defend and promote and right to freedom of expression.

She is awarded by many prizes for contribution to popularization of Roerich's heritage and protection of cultural heritage, including an Order of Friendship, medal « To deserving » of Russian Arts Academy, award of Moscow Bureau of UNESCO for significant contribution to the program « Culture of the world », and also certificate acknowledging that a minor planet was named « Lyudvasilia » in her honor and registered in international catalogue at number 9717.

In 2009, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, its sister city, have jointly been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status for their exceptional universal value.

In 2002 it was awarded the UNESCO Cities for Peace Prize for addressing the challenges of rapid urbanization.

He was awarded the UNESCO International Fair Play Award in 1985

He raised the issue in Parliament, whereupon Prime Minister Sato Kilman assured him he had not been aware that the country was voting against Palestine's membership of UNESCO, and that he would " review this decision ".

In October of 1975, Gaye gave a performance at a UNESCO benefit concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall to support UNESCO's African literacy drive, resulting in him to be commended at the United Nations by then-Ambassador of Ghana Shirley Temple Black and Kurt Waldheim.

* Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski ( 1950 – 54, which won him the UNESCO 1st prize in 1963.

During the following years, Sanguinetti worked as a journalist, working from a viewpoint that was critical of the de facto Government, in El Día Newspaper ( 1973 – 1981 ), Visión Newspaper ( since 1974, as an opinion columnist, a collaboration which he has continued up until today ), and in the weekly publication Correo de los Viernes ( established by him in 1981 and edited until 1984 ), as well as in the promotion of cultural and sports activities as the President of the Regional UNESCO Centre for the promotion of books in South America ( 1975 – 1984 ) and Vice-President of the popular Peñarol Football Club.

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

Biggers received a fellowship in 1957 from UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, allowing him to become one of the first African American artists to visit Africa.

In 1995 a statue of him was erected by the sea in the centre of Bergen near the UNESCO site of Bryggen.

The great ruler took 60, 000 porters with him, each carrying 3 kilograms of pure gold-180 tons in total, according to the UNESCO General History of Africa, Volume IV, pp. 197 – 200.

In 1985, UNESCO presented him with an Honorary Fair Play Award in recognition to his footballing career.

In 1951, he obtained a UNESCO grant, allowing him to travel to Paris and meet with intellectuals from Africanist circles, notably Marcel Griaule.

He resigned from Congress in October 1965, 10 months into his sixth term, when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him a delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

In the centennial of " Annus Mirabilis " of 1905 ( the miracle year during which Einstein published his five major papers on the special theory of relativity, Brownian motion and the quantum theory ; which earned him the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics ), the UNESCO designated year 2005 to be the World Year of Physics ( WYP ).

President Harry S. Truman appointed him U. S. representative to UNESCO in 1946, although he retired to Concord shortly after to write his memoirs.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Edinburgh has a long literary tradition, going back to the Scottish Enlightenment and in more recent years being declared the first UNESCO City of Literature in 2004.

Considered as green and highly liveable, the city and its region are the world's first tourism destination, housing 3, 800 historical monuments and four UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

This declaration by UNESCO will, occur, further promoting international had Santa Cruz de Tenerife, being the first Carnival of Spain to obtain this recognition, for its permanent in time and it would reach the five continents through UNESCO.

Moreover, UNESCO and ICOMOS recently collaborated to publish their first book on human and natural threats to these sensitive World Heritage sites.

The site of the Church of the Nativity is a World Heritage Site, and was the first to be listed under Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

Once proclaimed first green city of France, it has been labeled a ' Town of Art and History ' since 1986, and has been on the UNESCO world heritage list since 2008.

The first Director General of UNESCO ( Sir Julian Huxley ), wishing to give UNESCO a more scientific base, sponsored a congress to establish a new environmental institution to help serve this purpose.

The first created the International Charter on the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites, better known as Venice Charter ; the second, put forward by UNESCO, created ICOMOS to carry out this charter.

Saarbrücken is connected by the city's public transport network to the town of Sarreguemines in France, and to the neighboring town of Völklingen, where the old steel works were the first industrial monument to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994 — the Völklinger Hütte.

In 2007 The Story of the Kelly Gang was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for being the world's first full-length feature film.

He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London ( 1935 – 1942 ), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund.

Huxley, a lifelong internationalist with a concern for education, got involved in the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), and became the organization's first Director-General in 1946.

In its first few years UNESCO was dynamic and broke new ground ; since Huxley it has become larger, more bureaucratic and stable.

On 1 August 2010, a meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Brazil placed Fremantle Prison and 10 other " Australian Convict Sites " on the World Heritage List-making it the first built environment in Western Australia to be bestowed this honour.

In 1948 she became a member of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO, the first Hollywood celebrity to do so.

John McConnell first introduced the idea of a global holiday called " Earth Day " at the 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment.

The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted by 185 Member States in 2001, represents the first international standard-setting instrument aimed at preserving and promoting cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.

Himeji Castle is the largest and most visited castle in Japan, and it was registered in 1993 as one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the country.

Himeji Castle was registered on December 11, 1993 as one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan.