On the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (13 October), UNESCO's Many Voices, One World welcomed Laura Kong, Director of the International Tsunami Information Center, to better understand w...

Many Voices, One World

Understanding the Impacts of Tsunamis on People and the Environment

En el siguiente podcast, Irma Pineda nos acerca a las comunidades indígenas de Oaxaca (México) para conocer cómo se percibe la pandemia de COVID19 y cómo está afectando a sus vidas. En ella se so...

La Mujer Indígena, Pilar Fundamental de las Comunidades Autóctonas en la Lucha Contra la COVID-19

Tolerance and inclusion are key for ensuring everyone's equal right to succeed based on quality education. Dr. Eliza Byard, Executive Director of GLSEN, an organization committed to LGBTQ inclusion ...

Ending Gender Bias in Schools

It is said that we know more about the surface of the moon than the depths of our ocean. Michael Lodge, Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, joins host George Papagiannis in our st...

The Deep Ocean, Uncovering Earth's Last Frontier

UNESCO's Many Voices, One World looks at the role the ocean plays in putting the brakes on climate change. The upcoming UN climate meeting in Madrid, COP25 (December 2020), is being called the "Bl...

It Doesn’t Work without the Ocean

40 percent of the estimated 6,700 languages spoken around the world are in danger of disappearing. Most of these languages are indigenous languages, which embody complex systems of knowledge developed...

Is Culture the Key to Safeguarding Indigenous Rights?

In this episode, UNESCO sits down with Thomas Vonier, President of the International Union of Architects, to discuss the designation of Rio de Janeiro as the first World Capital of Architecture, and w...

Why Architects are Looking to the Past to Build the Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow

From the coaxing ritual for camels of Mongolia to the Bigwala music and dance of Uganda, the latest episode of Culture Speaks focuses on Living Heritage and UNESCO's efforts to safeguard it for the ...

This is the Stuff of Life

This episode provides an in-depth look at UNESCO's new initiative to "Revive the Spirit of Mosul", the largest reconstruction effort undertaken by UNESCO in recent years....

Reviving the Spirit of Mosul

In this episode, Sameh Wahba, Director of the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice of the World Bank, reveals why the world's largest development bank now sees culture as integral par...

Integrating Culture into Reconstruction and Recovery

This special youth edition of Culture Speaks features a young change-maker and UNESCO Youth Forum participant, Tamara Richardson, who describes the key role ICTs can play in safeguarding humanity's ...

ICTs: The key to safeguarding intangible heritage?

Last year, more than 1.2 billion people travelled across international borders, a trend that is only set to continue. As the number of people travelling for tourism continues to grow, UNESCO World Her...

Tourists behaving badly? Making sustainable tourism a reality at World Heritage sites

In this episode of Talking about Culture, we feature an interview with Danielle Cliche, secretary of the 2005 Convention, and Octavio Kulesz, a UNESCO expert and one of the authors behind Re|Shaping C...

The Digital Revolution

Did you know that the ability to access, participate in and contribute to cultural life is considered a human right? In the latest episode of the Culture Sector podcast, "Talking about Culture", K...

What Are Cultural Rights?

In this first instalment of "Talking About Culture", Francesco Bandarin, assistant director-general for culture of UNESCO, offers an eye-opening account of his two most recent missions to two very...

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