🇵🇫Today on #WorldOceanDay , explore how the return of a traditional practice has helped the coastline to regenerate and thrive again in southern Tahiti. "In Tahiti, a lagoon rescued by tradition": bit.ly/3VuGY7X #oceanconservation

Yesterday we met the world-renowned pianist Lang Lang🇨🇳who was performing in Paris. As UNICEF #GoodwillAmbassador and UN #MessengerofPeace, he uses his art to help improve the lives of children. Check our #youthliterature issue in Lang Lang Piano 's hands bit.ly/43KrKhz

El lenguaje: ¡la esencia que nos hace humanos! Sumérgete en 'Lo que nos hace humanos' 📚, una obra de Victor D.O. Santos y la ilustradora Anna Forlati, en colaboración con la UNESCO en español 🏛️#Educación #Ciencia #Cultura. Descubre el poder de la diversidad lingüística con el #CorreoUNESCO 📰 UNESCOCourier #News #Magazine #Interviews 🇺🇳

🇦🇷 Could #influencers motivate kids to read books? Argentine youth fiction is thriving, partly thanks to young “bookfluencers” who share their favourite readings on social media. Read more about Argentina’s well-read influencers bit.ly/3z3w8Nx Leo Teti ToRy

With the Olympics just around the corner, let's talk about play. In @unescocourier's May 1991 issue, philosophers, educators, writers and artists explored the many meanings of play, from #sports and games to creative performance and children playing. 👉bit.ly/3Xyjdxb

Ever heard of silent books? The removal of words can make it easier to convey difficult, unspeakable things, writes children’s literature expert Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang in his article “A playground between words and images”👉 bit.ly/3XG5QuX #kidlit #mentalhealth

Meet the Invisible Woman... from 1980! Despite progress made in gender equality, women still struggle today to get their voices heard. They still make up a disproportionate percentage of workers in the informal sector. 👉A dive into our archive: bit.ly/4cj5ChP

"We need to abandon the monolingual imaginary of the colonialists, and move towards a multi-trans-linguistic imaginary" - Fascinating interview with Patrick CHAMOISEAU 📰 UNESCOCourier #News #Magazine #Interviews 🇺🇳 about Creole, French, orality, poetics, #multilingualism, relation & narratives bit.ly/4d5gOhQ

The transatlantic slave trade led to the deportation of circa 12.5 million persons from Africa to the Americas. How can we heal the past and overcome the trauma of slavery? A growing number of voices call for tangible action: bit.ly/4cMcUL5

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. But what makes a city? The people who live there! So shape your city💫Get inspired by this powerful illustration by Demire Selçuk, published in our April 2019 issue Reinventing cities: bit.ly/3WaVqRP

On International Day for the Conservation of the #Mangrove Ecosystem, discover this local initiative to restore these fragile ecosystems in Mexico - by a group of couragous women. bit.ly/46d9bUn

In the in the 1960s, Cuban writer Miguel Barnet collected the testimony of 104-year-old Esteban Montejo, Cuba’s last Cimarron slave. This led to the hugely influential book "Autobiography Of A Runaway Slave". Read his first-hand account in our latest issue bit.ly/3YcZFPr

For more than 70 years, the 📰 UNESCOCourier #News #Magazine #Interviews 🇺🇳 has been exploring how sport can transform lives by breaking down barriers and uniting people. Explore our selection, from the 1960s to date: courier.unesco.org/en/articles/al…

🌱 Youth are the future of the world! They have always been. 🎉But they are also the present. ☀️Today, on International Youth Day, dive into our archive and discover fascinating stories about youth, published in the UNESCO Courier since the 1950s! bit.ly/3SG0bS8

⛱️How to travel without leaving a trace? From Barcelona to Venice, Kyoto to Bali, authorities are testing ways to tackle overtourism without drying up this major source of revenue. Read more: bit.ly/4ddljYv #sustainabletourism

In 1964, UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 launched a major project to present the Africa’s history from an African perspective. The elaboration of the General History of Africa took 35 years of cooperation between more than 230 specialists. Read more about decolonizing history: bit.ly/4cMcUL5

In The 📰 UNESCOCourier #News #Magazine #Interviews 🇺🇳's exclusive interview, Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the Caribbean's leading writers, reminds us that no hierarchy exists between languages. He invites us to free ourselves from an inevitably sclerotic monolingual imaginary. More: courier.unesco.org/en/articles/pa…

Enslaved women were the majority of labourers on most colonial plantations; yet their place in historical research has long been marginal. 👉Discover in our latest issue the article "Slave trade and women: a forgotten history" by Sir Hilary Beckles: bit.ly/4dLVCyv

📖✍️Over 86 % of the world's population can read and write today, whereas in 1858 nearly half were illiterate. But more needs to be done. Today on International #LiteracyDay, discover the Courier issues dedicated to the fight against illiteracy: bit.ly/4gd0oqb