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News UNESCO Paris Headquarters - 9th September 2015

Mme France Marquet representative, SAF attended the Global meeting on literacy and sustainable Society and Award Ceremony

Mme France Marquet representative of South Asia Foundation Attended the Global meeting on literacy and sustainable society and the award ceremony of the literacy Prize 2015....

News UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - 5th September 2015

Mme France Marquet, representative of SAF to UNESCO, attended the Seminar: 'Artists and the memory of slavery'

Mme France Marquet, representative of South Asia Foundation to UNESCO, attended the Seminar: "Artists and the Memory of Slavery: Resistance, Creative Freedom and Legacies"

News Bangkok - 30th August 2015

Prof. NTS Wijesekera, Director, UMCSAWM participated and gave a presentation at the conference on “Disaster Management

Prof. NTS Wijesekera, Director of the UNESCO Madanjeet Centre for South Asia Water Management at Moratuwa, Sri Lanka participated and gave a presentation at the conference on “Disaster Management: Experience Sharing from South and Southeast Asia” organized by Consortium of South Asian Think-Tanks (COSATT) in Bangkok on Aug. 20-21. 2015. He spoke in detail about the scholarships being provided by SAF to South Asian students at the Centre.

In the media UMIKS, Kashmir University, J&K - 15th August 2015

'Lotus: Yet to Bloom' An article by Ms Indu Dhungana, SAF Scholar at UMIKS

I landed at the Srinagar airport in my first visit to the fabled ‘paradise on earth’ called Kashmir. The weather seemed hostile. On my first step on Kashmir soil, I was like: “Wow! Seriously, it is indeed paradise.” As I marveled over the beauty of this place, my thoughts flowed in the same way as water in Jhelum did....

News UNESCO headquarters Paris - 3rd August 2015

Mme France Marquet representative of SAF to UNESCO, contributed to the International forum 'Role of women in fighting poverty

Fourth International Forum of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO on "The Role Of Women In Fighting Poverty"

News Beijing, People’s Republic of China, - 1st August 2015

Mme France Representative of SAF attended 'Fifth International Forum of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO'

Mme France Marquet, representative of South Asia Foundation to UNESCO attended the 'Fifth International Forum of NGOs in Official Partnership with UNESCO'.....

News Kabul, Afghanistan - 16th July 2015

Appreciation letter to Mme Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO by Prof Omara Khan Masoudi,Chairman, SAF-Afghanistan

wanted to take a moment to say how much I appreciated your recent statement expressing concern over the destruction of cultural heritages in Iraq and Syria, Mali and Afghanistan. Your outstanding and tireless efforts to preserve world’s shared cultural wealth is invaluable. I heard through the news that you referred to the destruction of historic monuments and cultural heritages of religious, education, art .....

News Kathmandu, Nepal - 10th July 2015

South Asia Foundation Colleagues at Kathmandu Conference

Prof. P. Thilakan- Head of the UMSGET (Pondicherry University), Mr. Sangay Wangchuk, Program Director, UMCSAFS (Bhutan), and Abu Salah Md. Yousuf, former SAF Scholar at UMISARC (Pondicherry University) at a regional conference in Kathmandu on “Integrating Global Responses to Climate Change....

News Sainte Marie aux Mines, France - 4th July 2015

Ms Zil E Batool, UMISAA Scholar Sharing Experience on 52nd Sainte Marie aux Mines Minerals and Gems show

As a scholar of the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Art, Lahore, Pakistan,It was a great experience to participate in the 52nd Sainte Marie aux Mines Minerals and Gems show started on the 25th - 28th Jun 2015. My collection for this show was based on each part of Pakistan to represent....

News Marie aux Mines, France - 3rd July 2015

Ms Zil E Batool, UMISAA Scholar recently participated in the 52nd Jewelry Show held in Sainte Marie aux Mines in June 2015

Ms Zil E Batool, South Asia Foundation scholar studying Jewelry Studies at UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Art, Lahore, Pakistan (UMISAA) recently participated in the 52nd Show held in Sainte Marie aux Mines in June 2015. She then attended the forum on the “The Role of Women in Fighting Poverty”.....