Launch of the 2024 Survey of Research and Development (R&D) Statistics for SDG 9.5.
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (News )The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) launch the 2024 Survey of Research and Development (R&D) Statistics. This survey collects data to support the global monitoring of SDG Target 9.5.
Q&A: What you need to know about ‘the price of inaction’ in education
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (News )First global report to illustrate the monetary costs to economies around the world of leaving children and youth behind in education.
Remembering the genocide against the Tutsi
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (Article )In 2023, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee added four genocide memorial sites in Rwanda to the list of World Heritage Sites: Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero and Gisozi, where the Kigali Genocide Memorial is located.
Malawi curbs cholera through enhanced outbreak control.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Malawi continues to record only sporadic cholera cases, with just an average of 10 cases a week as of January 2024 compared with close to 700 cases per week at the peak of the outbreak in January 2023
In world first, Nigeria introduces new 5-in-1 vaccine against meningitis
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Health workers roll out immunization campaign aiming to reach one million people.
East African media called to strengthen regional integration through judicial reporting
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (Article )At a regional training held by UNESCO and the East African Court of Justice, 32 editors and journalists from East Africa were urged to promote awareness among East African citizens on the Court's mandate.
Generative AI: UNESCO study reveals alarming evidence of regressive gender stereotypes
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (Press Release )A UNESCO study revealed worrying tendencies in Large Language models (LLM) to produce gender bias, as well as homophobia and racial stereotyping
Launch of the 2024 Survey of Formal Education
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (News )The survey is sent to 163 UNESCO Member States and territories and comprises four questionnaires from which twenty-one SDG 4 global and thematic indicators are produced
