UNESCO’s General History of Africa project is reshaping global understanding by telling the continent’s story from an African perspective and bringing it into classrooms and digital learning tools worldwide.
Literature
Join UNESCO in celebrating linguistic diversity with the launch of the Hawaiian edition of What Makes Us Human, supporting the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.
Following the evaluation of the World Book Capital Advisory Committee, the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has designated Strasbourg (France) as World Book Capital for 2024.
Following the evaluation of the World Book Capital Advisory Committee, the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has designated Strasbourg (France) as World Book Capital for 2024.
Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud, world champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador calls for urgent global action in new poem highlighting impact of climate change on humankind.
Guadalajara (Mexico) was selected for its comprehensive plan for policies around the book to trigger social change, combat violence and build a culture of peace.
The Accessible Books Consortium, a WIPO partnership, aims to increase the number of books worldwide in accessible formats and to make them available to people who need them.
Yuriko was just a 12 year-old growing up in Hiroshima, when the devastating mushroom cloud enveloped the city in the morning of 6 August 1945. Kathleen Burkinshaw’s novel The Last Cherry Blossom, tells Yuriko’s extraordinary survival story, a journey inspired by the life of the author’s
Books on feminism and women’s experience reflect how diverse women’s experiences around the world truly are.