SHS Commission

: Salwa Saniora Baassiri, Chairperson © UNESCO

16-19, 21 October 2009

The SHS Commission will consider issues related to Social and Human Sciences, and determine the policies and main lines of work in these areas through discussion and adoption of the programme and budget for the next two years.

The Commission will also examine a number of specific items, dealing inter alia with issues related to:

ethics and climate change;
the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
modification of the statutes of CIGEPS;
the establishment of a West African Institute for International Research on Regional Integration and Social Transformations in Praia, Cape Verde, as a category 2 centre under the auspices of UNESCO.

In addition, in a joint session, the SHS and SC Commissions will discuss UNESCO’s action to address the challenges of global climate change.