| Directory: | World / Arabic / مجتمع / حكومة / الأمم_المتحدة |
| Title: | اليونسكو |
| Description: | منظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والتعليم والثقافة |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/general/ara/ |
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| Directory: | Arts / Architecture / Building_Types / Lighthouses / Pharos_of_Alexandria |
| Title: | Underwater Archaeological Investigation of the Pharos |
| Description: | A Franco-Egyptian team inspected the submerged ruins of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria in 1994-1998. An illustrated, scholarly report hosted by UNESCO. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/alex6.htm |
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| Directory: | Arts / Architecture / History |
| Title: | World Heritage |
| Description: | Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/ |
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| Directory: | Arts / Architecture / History / Architects / V / Villanueva,_Carlos_Raúl |
| Title: | Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas |
| Description: | UNESCO explains why this masterpiece of modern city planning, architecture and art created by the Venezuelan architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva was declared a World Heritage Site. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/sites/986.htm |
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| Directory: | Arts / Architecture / History / Organizations |
| Title: | UNESCO: World Heritage |
| Description: | Calendar of events, the guiding principles of the World Heritage Committee, list of World Heritage Sites, special reports and online exhibitions, ways to participate. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/ |
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| Directory: | Arts / Architecture / Preservation / Organizations |
| Title: | World Heritage |
| Description: | Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/ |
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| Directory: | Arts / Literature / Genres / Science_Fiction / Authors / R / Reynolds,_Alastair |
| Title: | Fresco |
| Description: | A very short story by Reynolds. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_05/uk/doss25.htm |
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| Directory: | Arts / Literature / World_Literature / Caribbean / Conde,_Maryse |
| Title: | Maryse Condé: Grand dame of Caribbean literature. |
| Description: | A discussion between Elizabeth Nunez and Maryse Condé. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_11/uk/dires.htm |
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| Directory: | Arts / Movies / Organizations |
| Title: | Cultural Industries: Cinema and audiovisual media |
| Description: | UNESCO encourages the design of national or regional policies in the field of cinema and audio-visual, in order to create environments conducive to development. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31479&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-477.html |
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| Directory: | Arts / Music / Musicology / Organizations |
| Title: | International Musical Council |
| Description: | UNESCO council comprised of music committees in 70 countries. Includes IMC news, projects, and general info. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/imc/ |
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| Directory: | Arts / Performing_Arts / Acting / Actors_and_Actresses / C / Cardinale,_Claudia |
| Title: | UNESCO On-Line |
| Description: | Article covering the actress's appointment as a goodwill ambassador for the UN organisation. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/bpi/eng/unescopress/00-18e.htm |
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| Directory: | Arts / Performing_Arts / Dance / Organizations |
| Title: | International Dance Council - CID |
| Description: | The only official world-wide umbrella organization for all kinds of dance. Founded 1973. Based in the UNESCO, Paris. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/ngo/cid |
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| Directory: | Business / Management / Management_Science / Management_Information_Systems / Regional / Africa |
| Title: | The Regional Information Society Network for Africa (RINAF) |
| Description: | UNESCO's telematics support activity for development in Africa, including the promotion of national and regional strategies and telematics applications for development. |
| Location: | http://webworld.unesco.org/rinaf/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Software / Information_Retrieval / Fulltext |
| Title: | MicroISIS by UNESCO |
| Description: | Non-numerical information storage and retrieval software developed to allow institutions, especially in developing countries, to streamline their information processing activities. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=2071&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1035195531 |
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| Directory: | Recreation / Collecting / Stamps / Topical_Collecting / Nature |
| Title: | Stamps on International Year of the Ocean |
| Description: | A UNESCO site |
| Location: | http://ioc.unesco.org/iyo/activities/special_stamps.htm |
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| Directory: | Recreation / Outdoors / Parks |
| Title: | UNESCO: Statutory Records |
| Description: | Provides details of the World Heritage Convention status of various parks, and reserves, around Africa (and the rest of the world). |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/statutorydoc/ |
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| Directory: | Reference / Archives |
| Title: | UNESCO Archives Portal |
| Description: | Directory of archives worldwide and resources related to records and archives management and to international co-operation in this area. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5761&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |
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| Directory: | Reference / Education / Colleges_and_Universities / Organizations |
| Title: | International Association of Universities (IAU) |
| Description: | IAU members are individual universities and major regional and national university organisations (approximately 150 different countries). |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/iau/ |
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| Directory: | Reference / Education / Colleges_and_Universities / Transdisciplinary |
| Title: | Learning Without Frontiers |
| Description: | As a transdisciplinary initiative, LWF represents UNESCO's pro-active response to addressing the deep social and political problems that confront humanity as they relate to the role of learning in society. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/education/lwf/ |
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| Directory: | Reference / Education / International / Projects |
| Title: | Education for All Forum |
| Description: | An international watchdog body, set up in 1990 to promote and monitor progress towards education for all. The aim is to universalize primary education and massively reduce illiteracy. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/ |
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| Directory: | Reference / Libraries |
| Title: | UNESCO Libraries Portal |
| Description: | Directory of online resources on librarianship and library science, as well as the websites of individual institutions. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_bib2/cgi/page.cgi?d=1 |
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| Directory: | Reference / Libraries / Library_and_Information_Science / Software |
| Title: | CDS/ISIS Database Software |
| Description: | Micro CDS/ISIS is an advanced non-numerical information storage and retrieval software developed by UNESCO since 1985. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2071&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Benin / Society_and_Culture |
| Title: | UNESCO World Heritage - Benin |
| Description: | News and information about the country's ratified and nominated World Heritage sites. Includes descriptions, documents, maps, threats and assistance. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/bj |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Cameroon / Science_and_Environment |
| Title: | Dja Faunal Reserve |
| Description: | Description and data for this UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is one of the largest and best protected humid forests in Africa, noted for its biodiversity and a wide variety of primates. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=407 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Central_African_Republic / Education |
| Title: | Technical co-operation projects - Central African Republic |
| Description: | Presents a directory of projects related to education which have been implemented with help of UNESCO and financed from extra-budgetary funds. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/education/information/50y/proj_50/africa/af_centr.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Congo,_Democratic_Republic_of_the / Science_and_Environment / National_Parks |
| Title: | Kahuzi-Biega National Park |
| Description: | UNESCO World Heritage Site. A vast area of primary tropical forest dominated by two extinct volcanoes, Kahuzi and Biega, the park is populated with a diverse and abundant fauna. One of the last groups of mountain gorillas lives between 2,100 and 2,400 metres above sea-level. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/137 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Government |
| Title: | UNESCO - National Copyright Laws: Africa |
| Description: | Collection of laws regulating the rights of authors and intellectual property. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14778&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-471.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Mozambique / Ilha_de_Moçambique |
| Title: | Island of Mozambique |
| Description: | UNESCO World Heritage Site page. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/sites/599.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Niger / Education |
| Title: | UNESCO - Traditional Leaders Tackle Female Education in Niger |
| Description: | Recommendations from a symposium on school attendance for girls. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/know_sharing/grassroots_stories/niger.shtml |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Rwanda / Society_and_Culture / History / Genocide |
| Title: | UNESCO Coutier - Rwanda's Collective Amnesia |
| Description: | Article about the history of the ethnic groups of Hutus, Tutsis and Twas which led to the 1994 genocide. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_12/uk/dossier/intro08.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Society_and_Culture |
| Title: | Ethno-Net Africa |
| Description: | A network for comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social transformation in Africa. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/most/p95intro.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Society_and_Culture |
| Title: | UNESCO - Iron Roads in Africa |
| Description: | Project to develop interdisciplinary scientific research and intersectoral activities about ironworking. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5074&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Society_and_Culture / Aid_and_Development |
| Title: | UNESCO - Priority Africa |
| Description: | News and information on their strategy, programme, who's who and resources. Additional information and documents by country and theme. [English, French, Spanish] |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19521&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Society_and_Culture / Aid_and_Development / Information_and_Communications_Technology |
| Title: | UNESCO - Regional Information Society Network for Africa (RINAF) |
| Description: | Supporting African co-operation to promote academic and public sector computer networking. Includes documents, focal points, meetings and steering committee. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1771&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Zimbabwe / Localities / Mashonaland_East / Harare |
| Title: | UNESCO Harare Cluster Office |
| Description: | Subregional office for Southern Africa. Includes news, details about recent activities and projects, partner organisations and contact details. |
| Location: | http://www.harare.unesco.org/ |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Zimbabwe / Localities / Masvingo / Great_Zimbabwe |
| Title: | Great Zimbabwe National Monument |
| Description: | UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ruins of Great Zimbabwe are a unique testimony to the Bantu civilization of the Shona between the 11th and 15th centuries. This city, covering an area of nearly 80 hectares, was an important trading centre, renowned since the Middle Ages. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Zimbabwe / Localities / Matabeland_North / Matobo |
| Title: | Matobo Hills |
| Description: | A UNESCO World Heritage Site, a hill area with distinctive granite boulders and cliffs and much rock art. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/306 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Zimbabwe / Localities / Matabeland_North / Victoria_Falls |
| Title: | Mosi-oa-Tunya: Victoria Falls |
| Description: | Brief description of this UNESCO World Heritage Site on the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=509 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Zimbabwe / Localities / Matabeland_South |
| Title: | Khami Ruins National Monument |
| Description: | UNESCO World Heritage Site. Khami was developed after the capital of Great Zimbabwe had been abandoned in the mid-16th century, and is of great archaeological interest. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/365 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Africa / Zimbabwe / Society_and_Culture / Aid_and_Development |
| Title: | UNESCO Harare Cluster Office |
| Description: | Subregional office for promotion of peace and human development in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Includes news, details about recent activities and projects, partner organisations and contact details. |
| Location: | http://www.harare.unesco.org/ |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / Afghanistan / Society_and_Culture |
| Title: | Afghanistan: A Nation at the Crossroads |
| Description: | UNESCO Courier articles describe the situation in the country in the aftermath of war in late 2002, including the politics, economics, education, the conditions of art treasures and cultural resources, the status of women, and press freedom. |
| Location: | http://portal.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=6592&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / Azerbaijan / Society_and_Culture / Aid_and_Development |
| Title: | UNESCO - Azerbaijan National Commission |
| Description: | Information about the activities and projects of the UN organization promoting education, science, culture and communication. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/comnat/azerbaidjan/ |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / India / Uttar_Pradesh / Localities / Agra / Arts_and_Entertainment / Taj_Mahal |
| Title: | Taj Mahal - Heritage Status |
| Description: | Article by UNESCO World Heritage Centre on the suspended 'Taj Corridor Project' and preseration of Taj's heritage status. Includes official documents and reports in PDF format. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=252 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / Nepal / Localities / Chitwan |
| Title: | Unesco.org : Chitwan |
| Description: | Data and briefs on the Royal Chitwan Park from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=284 |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / Sri_Lanka / Sabaragamuwa / Sinharaja_Forest_Reserve |
| Title: | Sinharaja Forest Reserve |
| Description: | One of the few remaining areas of tropical rain forest on this island. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/sites/405.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / Sri_Lanka / Southern / Galle |
| Title: | Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications |
| Description: | Unesco report on the town of Galle. |
| Location: | http://whc.unesco.org/sites/451.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Asia / Turkmenistan / Guides_and_Directories |
| Title: | UNESCO WebWorld |
| Description: | Facts, policies and programmes for Turkmenistan. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/webworld/focus_central_asia/turkmenistan.html |
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| Directory: | Regional / Caribbean / Cuba / Education |
| Title: | Cuba: Education System |
| Description: | UNESCO overview of institution types, structure, and national bodies. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/systems_data/cu.rtf |
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| Directory: | Regional / Caribbean / Cuba / Society_and_Culture |
| Title: | Forever Twenty in Cuba |
| Description: | Photographs and reflections on the attitudes of young adults. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_09/uk/dici/txt1.htm |
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| Directory: | Regional / Caribbean / Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines / Bequia / Education |
| Title: | The Sandwatch Programme |
| Description: | A environmental program under UNESCO, managed by local high school students to monitor beach erosion and other environmental factors influencing Caribbean beaches. |
| Location: | http://www.unesco.org/csi/act/cosalc/sw_bequia.htm |
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