Each year, UNESCO recognizes culturally significant practices, traditions and customs. 2025's list includes weaving, handmade paper craftsmanship, yurt making, a genre of Cuban music and yodeling.

Today, UNESCO represents Fridah Manenji’s life long work, a place of learning, growth, and belonging. Her legacy is woven into the institution’s history not through loud accolades, but through trust ...

UNESCO is committed to ensuring that the revised culture methodology reflects this evolving landscape. The updated approach now brings a sharper, sector-by-sector analysis that fully incorporates ...

The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program is a remarkable initiative carried out by resourceful, dedicated communities around the world who develop multi-pronged, sustainable ecosystems with ...

To earn this first-of-its-kind accolade, the Italian government campaigned UNESCO for five years—spearheaded by Italian food expert (and CNT Italia editor-in-chief) Maddalena Fossati.

The State Department said Tuesday that the U.S. will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the end of next year over its advancement of ...

UNESCO has announced musician and fashion designer Pharrell Williams will be its goodwill ambassador for artistic education and entrepreneurship in a ceremony at its Paris headquarters on December 17.

The goal of the museum is not to expand its collection but to gradually empty itself as the missing objects are eventually recovered. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

The Khao Klang Nok monument in Si Thep, an ancient town 150 miles north of Bangkok, has survived more than a thousand years as kingdoms and empires rose and fell around it. But in just the week since ...

PARIS (AP) — With the support of international partners and the mobilization of $115 million, the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO recently helped rebuild the Iraqi city of Mosul after it was devastated by ...

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a list of the ...

United Nations (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from ...