The Unesco Courier

Since its creation in 1948, The UNESCO Courier is a key element of UNESCO’s identity as well as one of the most powerful tools for its humanistic mandate. In 1988, Sandy Koffler, the founder and first managing editor of the journal, said that: “Of all the journals published by the United Nations and its specialized institutions, The UNESCO Courier has always occupied first place for the number of its readers and the range of its audience.”

The magazine has changed a great deal over the years, both in content and in form. But it pursues its original mission: promote UNESCO’s ideals, maintain a platform for the dialogue between cultures and provide a forum for international debate.

Periodical, illustrated in colour
Format: 29.7 x 21 cm - One year subscription = 4 issues



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The Unesco Courier (2018_2): Welcome to the Anthropocene!
The Unesco Courier (2018_2): Welcome to the Anthropocene!
Anthropocene, Technosphere, Great Acceleration, Sixth Extinction – a lot is being written about these ideas, both in the press and in scientific literature. But what exactly do these terms mean? To...

The Unesco Courier (2018_3): Artificial Intelligence: The promises and the threats
The Unesco Courier (2018_3): Artificial Intelligence: The promises and the threats
Computers and robots are now learning to make decisions! Of course, “deciding” is a big word for machines that have no consciousness and whose level of “reasoning” is not even as evolved as that of a...

The Unesco Courier (2019_2): Reinventing Cities
The Unesco Courier (2019_2): Reinventing Cities
Cities have always been centres of power, attractiveness and prosperity. But the frenetic urbanization of recent decades is jeopardizing their historical function as melting pots that integrate and...

The Unesco Courier (2019_3): The ethical challenges of climate change
The Unesco Courier (2019_3): The ethical challenges of climate change
With this special report, the Courier aims to open up new avenues for reflection on these lesser-known aspects of the greatest global challenge of our times. Because, in parallel to the scientific...

The Unesco Courier (2018_4): Human rights: Back to the Future
The Unesco Courier (2018_4): Human rights: Back to the Future
To mark the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights(link is external), adopted on 10 December 1948, we decided to take a detour into the past to enable us to better orient...

The Unesco Courier (2019_4): Teachers: Changing lives
The Unesco Courier (2019_4): Teachers: Changing lives
To demonstrate a commitment that goes far beyond what is generally required by the profession, whether by choice or because the context demands it. This is why the teachers featured in this new issue...

The Unesco Courier (2020_1): Radio: Stronger and more vibrant than ever
The Unesco Courier (2020_1): Radio: Stronger and more vibrant than ever
First the arrival of television, then the emergence of the internet, followed by the eruption of social networks – all these should have gotten the better of it. Yet, radio continues to broadcast and...

The Unesco Courier (2020_3): A Whole New World, Reimagined by Women
The Unesco Courier (2020_3): A Whole New World, Reimagined by Women
Will the COVID-19 pandemic completely change our world? The UNESCO Courier asked women across the globe to imagine what life will be like after the crisis.   Journalists, authors, intellectuals,...

The Unesco Courier (2020_4): 50 Years of the Fight Against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods
The Unesco Courier (2020_4): 50 Years of the Fight Against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods
In spring 2020, the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic brought the whole world to a standstill. But the illicit trafficking of cultural property has not stopped. On the contrary....

The Unesco Courier (2021_1): Oceans: Time to turn the tide
The Unesco Courier (2021_1): Oceans: Time to turn the tide
Less than twenty per cent of the world’s oceans have been explored so far. That is not a lot. But it is enough for us to know that the oceans are threatened by global warming, acidification, and...

The Unesco Courier (2021_2): The 20s: Really the best age to be?
The Unesco Courier (2021_2): The 20s: Really the best age to be?
Youth climate activists took to the streets of New York City, calling for global action to fight climate change, on 20 September 2019. Millions of demonstrators turned out for similar marches on that...

The Unesco Courier (2021_3): Restoring Biodiversity, Reviving Life
The Unesco Courier (2021_3): Restoring Biodiversity, Reviving Life
COMING SOON Year after year, scientific studies are condemned to chronicle the sixth mass extinction – the decline of living organisms, the loss of species, the over-exploitation of resources, and the...

The Unesco Courier (2021_4): Stories of Migration
The Unesco Courier (2021_4): Stories of Migration
Families forced out of their homes by war, makeshift camps on the outskirts of cities, survivors of perilous sea crossings – news channels have become used to trivializing images of migrants, who are...

The Unesco Courier (2022_1): Should we be afraid of neuroscience?
The Unesco Courier (2022_1): Should we be afraid of neuroscience?
In the field of neuroscience, reality has already surpassed fiction. Who could have imagined that it would one day be possible to implant false memories in an animal’s brain, or to dictate a text to a...

The Unesco Courier (2022_2): Translation: from one world to another
The Unesco Courier (2022_2): Translation: from one world to another
To translate is to confront the other, the different, the unknown. It is often the essential prerequisite for those who want to access a universal, multiple, diverse culture. To translate is to...

The Unesco Courier (2022_3): Culture: global public good
The Unesco Courier (2022_3): Culture: global public good
As the world gradually recovers from a pandemic not seen for over a century, something has irrevocably changed. The crisis has revealed the strong interdependence between our societies and has exposed...

The Unesco Courier (2023_1): Maths counts
The Unesco Courier (2023_1): Maths counts
Perceived as abstract, intimidating and even traumatic, mathematics does not always get good reviews from students and the general public, who reduce it to a purely theoretical discipline,...

The Unesco Courier (2023_2): Cafés: a rich blend of cultures (April-June 2023)
The Unesco Courier (2023_2): Cafés: a rich blend of cultures (April-June 2023)
What is a café if not four walls and a roof impregnated with the aroma of roasting, along with a few cups, saucers, and small spoons lying around on a zinc counter or tabletop?   These “third places”,...

The Unesco Courier (2023_3): The call of the forest
The Unesco Courier (2023_3): The call of the forest
Forests are hotbeds of biodiversity, harbouring over 70 per cent of all terrestrial animal species. We now know just how essential they are to water cycles and climate regulation.   But this precious...

The Unesco Courier (2023_4): Education in the age of artificial intelligence
The Unesco Courier (2023_4): Education in the age of artificial intelligence
Whether lauded or decried, technologies are increasingly part of the school landscape, at least in industrialized countries. Yet no matter how sophisticated they may be, they have not challenged the...

The Unesco Courier (2023_2): Tales of Silken Times (Special Edition – April 2023)
The Unesco Courier (2023_2): Tales of Silken Times (Special Edition – April 2023)
Silk, a luxury good highly valued in imperial Rome, has given its name to legendary routes where historical and cultural dialogues have been woven for two millennia between East and West.   The UNESCO...

The Unesco Courier (2024_1): Future building. Towards a sustainable habitat
The Unesco Courier (2024_1): Future building. Towards a sustainable habitat
Architecture is an expression of the way we want to live. It engages our future, and is thus at the heart of contemporary issues – in particular sustainable development.   Today, the building sector...

The Unesco Courier (2024_2): Youth literature: a story of growth and wonder
The Unesco Courier (2024_2): Youth literature: a story of growth and wonder
Children don’t read any more. Teenagers even less so. Screens have made the comic books and albums ofour childhood a thing of the past. Such is the current discourse....

The Unesco Courier (2024_3): The deep legacy of slavery
The Unesco Courier (2024_3): The deep legacy of slavery
From the 16th to the mid-19th centuries, the slave trade led to the deportation of an estimated 12.5 million people from Africa to the Americas. The tragedy of enslavement has shaped our modern world...

The Unesco Courier (2024_4): Reimagining museums
The Unesco Courier (2024_4): Reimagining museums
Are museums outdated? Have screens made them old-fashioned? Quite the opposite. You might be surprised but the number of museum-goers has been steadily rising over the years. The number of museums has...