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Friday, 2 March 2018 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt
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🔊 Listen to this Post The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. It is the successor of the League of Nations‘ International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. UNESCO has 195 member states and ten associate members, including Cook Islands and Niue. Most of its field offices are “cluster” offices covering three or more countries; national and regional offices also exist. In October 2017, the United States and Israel have declared that they will leave UNESCO on 31 December 2018. Efforts to keep the United States in the UNESCO promptly started on the diplomatic floor.

UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information. Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy, technical, and teacher-training programs, international science programs, the promotion of independent media and freedom of the press, regional and cultural history projects, the promotion of cultural diversity, translations of world literature, international cooperation agreements to secure the world’s cultural and natural heritage (World Heritage Sites) and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the worldwide digital divide. It is also a member of the United Nations Development Group. UNESCO’s aim is “to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information”. Other priorities of the organization include attaining quality Education For All and lifelong learning, addressing emerging social and ethical challenges, fostering cultural diversity, a culture of peace and building inclusive knowledge societies through information and communication. The broad goals and objectives of the international community – as set out in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – underpin all UNESCO strategies and activities. The UNESCO transparency portal has been designed to enable public access to information regarding Organization’s activities, such as its aggregate budget for a biennium, as well as links to relevant programmatic and financial documents. These two distinct sets of information are published on the IATI registry, respectively based on the IATI Activity Standard and the IATI Organization Standard.

Media
UNESCO and its specialized institutions issue a number of magazines. The UNESCO Courier magazine states its mission to “promote UNESCO’s ideals, maintain a platform for the dialogue between cultures and provide a forum for international debate.” Since March 2006 it is available online, with limited printed issues. Its articles express the opinions of the authors which are not necessarily the opinions of UNESCO. As of 2016, the latest issue posted was October–December 2011. In 1950, UNESCO initiated the quarterly review Impact of Science on Society (also known as Impact) to discuss the influence of science on society. UNESCO also publish museum international quarterly from the year 1948.

Official UNESCO NGOs
UNESCO has official relations with 322 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Most of these are what UNESCO calls “operational”; a select few are “formal”. The highest form of affiliation to UNESCO is “formal associate”, and the 22 NGOs with formal associate (ASC) relations occupying offices at UNESCO are:

• IB – International Baccalaureate
• CCIVS – Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service
• EI – Education International
• IAU – International Association of Universities
• IFTC – International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication
• ICPHS – International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies which publishes Diogenes
• ICSU – International Council for Science
• ICOM – International Council of Museums
• ICSSPE – International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education
• ICA – International Council on Archives
• ICOMOS – International Council on Monuments and Sites
• IFJ – International Federation of Journalists
• IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• IFPA – International Federation of Poetry Associations
• IMC – International Music Council
• IPA – International Police Association
• INSULA – International Scientific Council for Island Development
• ISSC – International Social Science Council
• ITI – International Theatre Institute
• IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• IUTAO – International Union of Technical Associations and Organizations
• UIA – Union of International Associations
• WAN – World Association of Newspapers
• WFEO – World Federation of Engineering Organizations
• WFUCA – World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations

Institutes and centres
The institutes are specialized departments of the organization that support UNESCO’s programme, providing specialized support for cluster and national offices.

• IBE – International Bureau of Education
• UIL – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
• IIEP – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
• IITE – UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
• IICBA – UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa
• IESALC – UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
• UNESCO-UNEVOC – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
• CEPES – UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education
• UNESCO-IHE – UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
• ICTP – International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• UIS – UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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