The US cut off funds to the Unesco as a punitive action after the Palestinian Authority was accepted into the United Nations agency as a full member.
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/ 2 November 2011
The US has expressed disappointment with Israel’s decision to speed up settlement building following Unesco’s grant to the Palestinians.
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/ 31 October 2011
The US announced it has stopped funding Unesco, following its vote to grant the Palestinians full membership on Monday.
Palestine has become a full member of Unesco in a highly divisive move that the US and other opponents say could harm renewed Mid East peace efforts.
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/ 19 October 2011
The 200th edition of Converse is also its last: a swansong timed to coincide with South Africa’s National Press Freedom Day.
The ongoing row over a coal-mining licence granted on the border of the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site has highlighted its cultural significance.
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/ 24 September 2011
Our national pride, our heritage, is something we could not do without. Everybody has a thirst for knowledge about one’s own country.
Colombia prostitutes have united in a popular tourist destination to protect children from an international network of pimps and sexual predators.
Violent conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa have choked the growth of literacy in the region, a major Unesco report released this week says.
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/ 17 December 2010
Trying to build a nation on second languages will destroy developmental goals and SA should strive for mother tongue education.
The pumping out of underground water for human
consumption could threaten the ancient temple site.
The minister of basic education has proposed that October be celebrated as "Teachers’ Month" to recognise the significant role of teachers in society.
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/ 23 September 2010
Governments are on the brink of breaking a Millennium Development Goal promise of a decent quality basic education for all by 2015.
President Jacob Zuma says the World Cup must focus attention on "education for all". But will his summit in the last week of the tournament do that?
Faruq Hosni’s bid to become the Arab world’s first head of Unesco is being damaged by a row over comments he made on burning Israeli books.
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/ 24 September 2008
Maureen Brady reviews a fascinating volume about the history of the Cradle of Humankind.