United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Org type	Specialized Agency
Acronyms	UNESCO
Head	Director General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura  Japan
Status	Active
Established	1945
Website	www.unesco.org
Wikimedia Commons	UNESCO
Portal	United Nations Portal

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16, 1945. Its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the UN Charter.[1] It is the heir of the League of Nations' International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. Image File history File links Unesco. ... [[Image:Koïchiro_ ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... UN redirects here. ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Gari Melchers, Mural of Peace, 1896. ... For other uses, see Security (disambiguation). ... For wartime collaboration, see Collaborationism. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... Respect It also could be applied to taking care of oneself, others or the environment. ... This article is about the concept of justice. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      The rule of law, in its most basic form, is the principle that no one is above the law. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... For other uses, see Freedom. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... 1939–1941 semi-official emblem Anachronous world map in 1920–1945, showing the League of Nations and the world Capital Not applicable¹ Language(s) English, French and Spanish Political structure International organization Secretary-general  - 1920–1933 Sir James Eric Drummond  - 1933–1940 Joseph Avenol  - 1940–1946 Seán Lester Historical... The International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation (in French, Commission internationale de coopération intellectuelle, CICI) was a body of the League of Nations created in September 1921 on a French proposal. ...

UNESCO has 193 Member States and 6 Associate Members. The organization is based in Paris, with over 50 field offices and many specialized institutes and centres throughout the world. Most of the field offices are "cluster" offices covering three or more countries; there are also national and regional offices. UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programmes: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information. Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy, technical, and teacher-training programmes; international science programmes; the promotion of independent media and freedom of the press; regional and cultural history projects, the promotion of cultural diversity; international cooperation agreements to secure the world cultural and natural heritage (World Heritage Sites) and to preserve human rights; and attempts to bridge the world-wide digital divide. This article is about the capital of France. ... Children reading. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... Freedom of the Press (or Press Freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... For other uses, see History (disambiguation). ... There is a general consensus among mainstream anthropologists that humans first emerged in Africa about two million years ago. ... Cultural heritage (national heritage or just heritage) is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. ... Cultural heritage (often just termed heritage) consists of a nations historic buildings, collections, monuments, etc. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Digital divide cartogram in which country size is proportional to Internet use. ...

Structure

The UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France

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• The General Conference
• The Executive Board
• The Secretariat

The General Conference is a gathering of the organization's member states and associate members, in which each state has one vote. Meeting every two years, it sets general policies and defines programme lines for the organization.

The Executive Board's 58 members are elected by the General Conference for staggered four-year terms. The Executive Board prepares the sessions of the General Conference and ensures that its instructions are carried out. It also discharges other specific mandates assigned to it by the General Conference.

The Secretariat consists of the Director-General and his staff and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the organization. The Director-General, who serves as the public face of UNESCO, is elected for a (renewable) four-year term by the General Conference. The staff currently numbers some 2100, of whom some two-thirds are based in Paris, with the remaining third spread around the world in UNESCO's 58 field offices. The Secretariat is divided into various administrative offices and five programme sectors that reflect the organization's major areas of focus.

Controversy and reform

UNESCO has been the centre of controversy in the past, particularly in its relationships with the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and the former USSR. During the 1970s and 1980s, UNESCO's support for a "New World Information and Communication Order" and its MacBride report calling for democratization of the media and a more egalitarian access to information was condemned in these countries as attempts to curb freedom of the press. UNESCO was perceived by some as a platform for communist and Third World countries to attack the West, a stark contrast to accusations made by the USSR in the late 40s and early 50s.^[1] In 1984, the United States withheld its contributions and withdrew from the organization in protest, followed by the United Kingdom in 1985 and Singapore in 1986. Following a change of government in 1997, the UK rejoined. The United States rejoined in 2003, followed by Singapore on 8th October 2007. State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... The New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO or NWIO) is a term that was coined in a debate over media representations of the developing world in UNESCO in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Many Voices One World, known as the MacBride report was a 1980 UNESCO publication written by a commission presided by Irish nobel laureate Seán MacBride. ... Freedom of the Press (or Press Freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... Occident redirects here. ...

Part of the reason for their change of stance was due to considerable reforms implemented by UNESCO over the past 10 years. These included the following measures: the number of divisions in UNESCO was cut in half, allowing a corresponding halving of the number of Directors — from 200 to under 100, out of a total staff of approximately 2,000 worldwide.^{[citation needed]} At the same time, the number of field units was cut from a peak of 1287 in 1998 to 93 today. Parallel management structures, including 35 Cabinet-level special adviser positions, were abolished.^{[citation needed]} Between 1998 and 2009, 245 negotiated staff departures and buy-outs took place, causing the inherited $12 million staff cost deficit to disappear.^{[citation needed]} The staff pyramid, which was the most top-heavy in the UN system, was cut back as the number of high-level posts was halved and the “inflation” of posts was reversed through the down-grading of many positions. Open competitive recruitment, results-based appraisal of staff, training of all managers and field rotation were instituted, as well as SISTER and SAP systems for transparency in results-based programming and budgeting.^{[citation needed]} In addition, the Internal Oversight Service (IOS) was established in 2001 to improve organizational performance by including the lessons learned from programme evaluations into the overall reform process. In reality though, IOS's main tasks involve auditing rather than programme oversight; it regularly carries out audits of UNESCO offices that essentially look into administrative and procedural compliance, but do not assess the relevance and usefulness of the activities and projects that are carried out.^{[citation needed]}

Programming coherence and relevance remains a challenge at UNESCO. One of the main reasons for this is that activities and projects can be identified and supervised by various services within the organization.^{[citation needed]}

Activities

UNESCO implements its activities through the 5 programme areas of Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, and Communication and Information.

• Education: UNESCO is providing international leadership^{[citation needed]} in creating learning societies with educational opportunities for all; it supports research in Comparative education; and provides expertise and fosters partnerships to strengthen national educational leadership and the capacity of countries to offer quality education for all. This includes the
  • International Institute for Educational Planning, IIEP: A centre for training and research to strengthen the capacity of countries to plan and manage their education systems.
  • Environmental Conservation Organisation
• UNESCO also issues public 'statements' to educate the public:
  • Seville Statement on Violence: A statement adopted by UNESCO in 1989 to refute the notion that humans are biologically predisposed to organised violence.
• Designating projects and places of cultural and scientific significance, such as:
  • International Network of Geoparks
  • Biosphere reserves, through the Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB), since 1971
  • City of Literature; in 2007, the first city to be given this title was Edinburgh, the site of Scotland's first circulating library.^[2]
  • Endangered languages and linguistic diversity projects
  • Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
  • Memory of the World International Register, since 1997
  • Water Resource Management, through the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), since 1965
  • World Heritage Sites

• Encouraging the "free flow of ideas by images and words" by:
  • Promoting freedom of expression, press freedom and access to information, through the International Programme for the Development of Communication and the Communication and Information Programme
  • Promoting universal access to ICTs, through the Information for All Programme (IFAP)
  • Promoting Pluralism and cultural diversity in the media

• Promoting events, such as:
  • International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World: 2001–2010, proclaimed by the UN in 1998
  • World Press Freedom Day, 3 May each year, to promote freedom of expression and freedom of the press as a basic human right and as crucial components of any healthy, democratic and free society.
  • Criança Esperança in Brazil, in partnership with TV Globo, to raise funds for community-based projects that foster social integration and violence prevention.
  • International Literacy Day

• Founding and funding projects, such as:
  • Migration Museums Initiative: Promoting a the establishment of museums for cultural dialogue with migrant populations.[2]
  • UNESCO-CEPES, the European Centre for Higher Education: established in 1972 in Bucharest, Romania, as a de-centralized office to promote international co-operation in higher education in Europe as well as Canada, USA and Israel. Higher Education in Europe is its official journal.
  • Free Software Directory: since 1998 UNESCO and the Free Software Foundation have jointly funded this project cataloguing free software.
  • FRESH Focussing Resources on Effective School Health [3].
  • OANA, the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies
  • International Council of Science
  • UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors
  • ASOMPS, Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants and Spices, a series of scientific conferences held in Asia
  • Botany 2000, a programme supporting taxonomy, and biological and cultural diversity of medicinal and ornamental plants, and their protection against environmental pollution

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Map showing the distribution of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage by State Parties as of 2005. ... The Memory of the World International Register is a list of documentary heritage identified by an International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO since 1997. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ... Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public speech often through a state constitution for its citizens, and associations of individuals extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... Thomas Jefferson said that Information is the currency of democracy. ... The International Programme for the Development of Communication is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) programme aimed at strengthening the development of media in developing countries. ... Information technology (IT) or information and communication technology (ICT) is the technology required for information processing. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Pluralism (political philosophy) This article is about pluralism in politics. ... There is a general consensus among mainstream anthropologists that humans first emerged in Africa about two million years ago. ... 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International Literacy Day 2006 UNESCO poster September 8 was proclaimed the International Literacy Day by UNESCO in November 17, 1965. ... Migration museums cover human migration in the past, present and future. ... UNESCO-CEPES was established 1972 at Bucharest, Romania as a de-centralized office for the European Centre for Higher Education. ... Nickname: Motto: Patria si Dreptul Meu (My Country and My Right) Location of Bucharest within Romania (in red) Coordinates: , Country County Founded 1459 (first official record) Government  - Mayor Adriean Videanu Area  - City 228 km² (88 sq mi)  - Metro 238 km² (91. ... The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). ... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... FRESH is an acronym for Focusing Resources on Effective School Health, a world-wide UNESCO program for improving the health of school children and youths. ... School Health Services are services from medical, teaching and other professionals applied in or out of school to improve the health and well-being of children and in some cases whole families. ... OANA (Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies) is an association of news agencies from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) member states in the Asia-Pacific region. ... The International Council for Science (ICSU), formerly called the International Council of Scientific Unions, was founded in 1931 as an international non-governmental organization devoted to international co-operation in the advancement of science. ... UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO and utilize their talent or fame to spread the UNESCO ideals. ...

Prizes, awards and medals

UNESCO awards several prizes in science, culture and peace, such as:

• Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
• Great Man-Made River International Prize for Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas
• International José Martí Prize
• International Simón Bolívar Prize
• Javed Husain Prize for Young Scientist
• Jikji Memory of the World Prize for individuals or institutions that have made significant contributions to the preservation and accessibility of documentary heritage.
• Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science
• L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
• Sergei Eisenstein Medals for merit in cinematographic art.
• Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation
• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
• UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education
• UNESCO Mozart Medal for contribution to world peace through music and the arts.
• UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
• UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education
• UNESCO Science Prize
• UNESCO/Institut Pasteur Medal
• UNESCO Artist for Peace
• Creative Cities Network
• Seal of Excellence for Handicrafts

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Postage Stamps

Various countries have issued postage stamps commemorating UNESCO. The organization's seal and its headquarters building have been common themes. In 1955 the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) issued its first ones honouring the organization. This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. ... A United Nations stamp issued to commemorate the UN headquarters in Vienna The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) is the postal agency of the United Nations. ...

While UNESCO has never separately issued stamps valid for postage, from 1951 to 1966 it issued a series of 41 "gift stamps" to raise money for its activities. Designed by artists in various countries, they were sold at a desk by the UNPA counter located in the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City. No longer available at the UN, most of these Cinderella stamps can be purchased at low cost from speciality stamp dealers. This article is about the physical offices of the United Nations in New York. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A cinderella stamp is a label similar to a postage stamp which may or may not be issued by a post office. ...

Directors General

1. Julian Huxley,  United Kingdom (1946–1948)
2. Jaime Torres Bodet,  Mexico (1948–1952)
3. John Wilkinson Taylor,  United States (acting 1952–1953)
4. Luther Evans,  United States (1953–1958)
5. Vittorino Veronese,  Italy (1958–1961)
6. René Maheu,  France (1961–1974; acting 1961)
7. Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow,  Senegal (1974–1987)
8. Federico Mayor Zaragoza,  Spain (1987–1999)
9. Koïchiro Matsuura,  Japan (1999–present)

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Locations

UNESCO has offices in many locations across the globe; its headquarters are located in Paris, France. This article is about the capital of France. ...

• UNESCO is at coordinates 48°51′00″N 2°18′22″E / 48.85, 2.306 (UNESCO)Coordinates: 48°51′00″N 2°18′22″E / 48.85, 2.306 (UNESCO)

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References

1. ^ Grahm, S. E. (April 2006). "The (Real)politiks of Culture: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in UNESCO, 1946–1954". Diplomatic History 30 (2): 231–251. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2006.00548.x. 
2. ^ Varga, Susan (2006). Edinburgh Old Town (Images of Scotland) (Images of Scotland). The History Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-4083-7. 

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• unesco.org/webworld - Communication & Information Programme
  • UNESCO - Information for All Programme
  • World Press Freedom Day
• TooYoo UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages
• unescobkk.org Asia Pacific Heritage
• UNESCO Science Prizes
• UNESCO - Institute for Statistics
• Download UNESCO Education Data
• UNESCO - International Bureau of Education
• UNESCO - International Institute for Educational Planning
• UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
• UNESCO Nairobi Education Programme
• UNESCO.org Water sustainable development and conservation of freshwater resources in the world
  • UNESCO - UNESCO Rating of Jordanian Education Development
• Unofficial links
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