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In the Spotlight

Don’t miss The UNESCO Courier’s interview with giant-wave surfer Maya Gabeira, who has just been named UNESCO Champion of the Ocean And Youth.

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Maya Gabeira

Translation: From one world to another

What does it really mean to translate? Translation is often the essential prerequisite for accessing a universal, multiple, diverse culture. In our latest issue, we explore what this really entails.

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Nadia Diz Grana

Culture, a global public good

From Mexico to Nigeria, Lebanon to China, our latest issue explores the key role of culture as a vehicle for resilience, inclusion and sustainability.

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Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico.

Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico.

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Ideas

Experts provide perspective on contemporary issues

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Art market goes crypto with NFTs

Gregg Segal

Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are

An activist disguised as a Trash Queen promotes “Buy Nothing Day” on Black Friday in Hamburg, Germany, 2016, as part of a Greenpeace campaign to reduce overconsumption.

Ethical fashion: A rising trend or empty rhetoric?

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Who profits from ethnic labels?

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What our favourite TV programmes say about us

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Conspiracy theories: Linked to literature

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The microbes and viruses that made history

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Racism: Confronting the unthinkable

Our Guest

Interviews with the world's leading voices

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“It would be great to live around people who read literature from across the world”

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“The web still offers a lot of potential, besides what corporations have made of it.”

Sergey Zimov

“Thawing permafrost is a direct threat to the climate”

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“The history of Europe’s blacks has been struck by a partial amnesia”

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Yuval Noah Harari

"Every crisis is also an opportunity"

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Miriam Pérez de los Ríos,

Latin America: The golden age of dinosaurs

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Aude Bernheim and Flora Vincent

“We must educate algorithms”

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

“Empowerment has become central to my vision of the future”

Marie Monigue

Juliette Binoche and Marie-Monique Robin

“It's too late to be pessimistic”

Xueli Abbing

“Together, we can fight the horrible myths about albinism”

“As individuals, we can do a lot to help the oceans recover”

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The world in images

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Vineet Vohra’s New Delhi – with a smile

A plastic bag stuck to the pectoral fin of this long-snouted dolphin (Stenella longirostris). Nondegradable waste makes up a real threat to marine fauna.

Alexis Rosenfeld

Coral reefs: A chronicle of a fragile world

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Sebastião Salgado

The Amazon laid bare

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Dominique Roger: “UNESCO offered me the world”

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Titicaca: The sacred lake reveals its secrets

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The last picture show

In Depth

Global trends in figures

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Diversity of cultural expressions: State of play

Hands holding water

Groundwater: A remedy for water crises?

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African film: A booming industry

INDEPTH

Journalism: A dangerous profession

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The state of science across the globe

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The languages in cyberspace

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Stories of MIGRATION

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Restoring biodiversity, reviving life

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