Culture and Education
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India’s Durga Puja, where worship meets social change
India’s eastern state of Bengal transformed this week into the world’s largest public art festival – an immersive blend of…
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‘Tidal wave of emotion’ secures win for young Turkish writer in UN competition
Fifteen-year-old Reyyan Demiriz from Türkiye has been awarded first prize in a UN young writers’ competition which garnered a staggering…
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Sudan: As children continue to suffer, school remains a distant hope
Aid agencies working in war-torn Sudan issued an alert on Friday over the particular harm faced by children there, the…
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Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year
Attacks on schools in conflict zones around the world have increased by a “staggering 44 per cent” over the past…
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Gaza: With a suitcase for a school bag, classrooms have become shelters
“Instead of studying in school, we’re living in it,” said Diana, summing up the conditions faced by thousands of children…
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Funding cuts could push 6 million more children out of school, warns UNICEF
Global education funding is facing sharp reductions that could leave an extra six million children out of school by 2026,…
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Teachers are the ‘guardians of our future’, says UN deputy chief
In every corner of the world, educators are making choices that echo across generations – influencing everything from the preservation…
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Desks become beds as Haitian school shelters people displaced by violence
Gang violence in Haiti has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and many are finding shelter in former schools where…
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From crisis to classroom: How the UN supports education in conflict zones
From makeshift furniture in Gaza to metro classrooms in Ukraine and solar-powered tablets in Sudan, the UN is working to…
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights among new entries to UNESCO Memory of the World Register
The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized understanding of nature and humanity’s…
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