The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is currently drafting a Universal Bioethics Declaration ("the declaration"). The content and even the name of the declaration has yet to be finalized, but it is expected to range widely over human and non-human bioethics. It appears likely to include many articles directl...

If creators and investors cannot earn a fair return, the inevitable result will be a dearth of quality material and a corresponding deluge of rubbish, because quality material is intrinsically costly to produce. Although the new technology is reducing some of the costs associated with producing good material, it is also bringing in new costs. It is much cheaper to produce quality text now than ...

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was set up in the aftermath of World War II with mandate safeguarding global peace by promoting international intellectual cooperation across national boundaries. UNESCO’s first flagship educational initiative, launched 1946, Fundamental Education programme, which ran until 1958. This article traces role China history ...

New lessons on the Sudd hydrology learned from remote sensing and climate modeling Y. A. Mohamed, H. H. G. Savenije, W. G. M. Bastiaanssen, and B. J. J. M. van den Hurk UNESCO-IHE, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, The Netherlands Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands ITC (currently with WaterWatch), Generaal Foulkesweg 28, 6703 BS Wageningen, The Netherlands K...

The Yale University Prehistoric Expedition to Nubia was part of UNESCO'S international program to salvage the monuments of Nubia, with the direct aid of the Department of Antiquities of the United Arab Republic. The Yale Prehistoric Expedition worked in Upper Egypt and Egyptian Nubia for three field seasons during 1962-1965 inclusive (Reed, 1966). My own participation was limited to the last se...

This paper explores the history and philosophical ideas that have driven efforts to achieve universal primary and basic education since 1990. The paper focuses particularly on the role of UNESCO and the World Bank as primary multilateral agencies involved in international educational development debates and policy making. Using comparative policy analysis, the article examines the language of k...