World Book and Copyright Day

Over a year after devastating earthquakes, Muhammed is bringing life back to his hometown through the power of books.

Healing page by page in earthquake-affected Türkiye

23 April 2024

Book by book and page by page, Türkiye’s booklovers are bringing life back to cities ravaged by the deadly 2023 earthquakes through the power of reading, with help from cash grants from the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM).

A fourteen year-old Rohingya refugee holds her favorite book of poetry at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh.

World Book and Copyright Day celebrates ‘fundamental importance’ of literature

23 April 2021

Culture and Education

At a period of global uncertainty and confinement, books open the door to freedom, transporting readers beyond time and borders, the head of the UN’s educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, said on Friday.