Concept
UNESCO
Overview
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It has 194 member states and 12 associate members, as well as partners in the non-governmental, intergovernmental and private sector. Headquartered in Paris, France, UNESCO has 53 regional field offices and 199 national commissions.
UNESCO was founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. UNESCO's founding mission, which was shaped by the events of World War II, is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by facilitating collaboration and dialogue among nations. It pursues this objective through five major programme areas: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information. UNESCO sponsors projects that improve literacy, provide technical training and education, advance science, protect independent media and press freedom, preserve regional and cultural history, and promote cultural diversity. The organization prominently helps establish and secure World Heritage Sites of cultural and natural importance.
UNESCO is governed by the General Conference composed of member states and associate members, which meets biannually to set the agency's programmes and budget. It also elects members of the executive board, which manages UNESCO's work, and appoints every four years a Director-General, who serves as UNESCO's chief administrator.
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_The enjoyment of these rights has no limitation other than the equal rights of others and the public safety_.” (Chap. II. of the French Constitution, Section 8.) “Education is free. The freedom of education shall be _enjoyed_ under the conditions provided by law, and under the supervision of the State.” (Section 9.) “The domicile of the citizen is inviolable, except under the forms prescribed by law.” (Chap. I…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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To the extent to which all commodities are exchanged for them, they become the transformed impersonation of all commodities and, therefore, universally alienable commodities. Their function of serving as the embodiment of universal labor-time is realized more and more as the interchange of matter produced by concrete labor embraces increasing parts of the world. They become universal equivalents to the extent to…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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This power is called memory, the preserving or keeping faculty.
Avicenna, A Compendium on the Soul
States what UNESCO is; the author is tied to UNESCO in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed UNESCO
- Fresco
- Avicenna
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Henri Bergson
- Julian Huxley
- Karl Marx
- John Amos Comenius
- Karl Mannheim
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Wesley C. Salmon
- Netherlands
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Titus Burckhardt
- Thales of Miletus
- Buddhism
- Richard McKeon
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Albert Camus
- Jonathan Dancy
- Edgar Morin
- Tu Weiming
- Sandra Harding
- Luciano Floridi
Related ideas
- Freedom of the press
- Fiji
- Turkey
- Florence
- Free market
- Geneva
- Gender equality
- Haiti
- Henri Bergson
- Indonesia
- Julian Huxley
- Iran
- Jamaica
- Kraków
- Peru
- Kathmandu
- Eritrea
- South Africa
- Libya
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Literacy
- Kenya
- Bahrain
Place in the tradition
Part of Contemporary Islamic philosophy.