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Quick Link to this page: www.unesco.org/shs/humanrights
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UNESCO's work in the field of human rights extends the Organization’s contribution in the ethical and standard-setting dimensions. |
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It has three major aims:
- strengthen awareness;
- act as a catalyst for regional, national and international action in human rights;
- foster cooperation with all actors and networks.
With regard to the advancement of human rights, action is concentrated in areas where UNESCO has a special mandate: generating and sharing knowledge, protecting human rights, renewing and reinforcing commitment to human rights education and providing advisory services and technical assistance to Member States.
In important related areas, such as women and gender, where emphasis is on promoting equality between the sexes and on the social dimension of women's rights, actions focus on research, networking, advocacy and knowledge sharing of best practices.
In the struggle against discrimination, UNESCO tries to identify the obstacles hampering the full exercise of human rights: the impact of nationalism, religious intolerance, discrimination against minorities, and forms of discrimination arising from scientific progress or from illness such as HIV and AIDS.
After concentrating its work on the theoretical analysis of the principles of democracy, UNESCO developed a strategy in 2002-2003 for an international programme on democracy. This strategy is coordinated by the International Centre for Human Sciences (ICHS) at Byblos (also referred to as the Byblos Centre) in close cooperation with the International Panel on Democracy and Development (IPDD).
UNESCO encourages and advances research on new forms of violence and develops regional plans for human security by improving links with local initiatives to prevent conflicts at their source, through respect for human rights and policies for sustainable development and for alleviating poverty.
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16-07-2008 (UNESCOPRESS) - UNESCO and the Brazilian television network TV-Globo will sign a new agreement on 17 July at Organization Headquarters, prolonging their partnership launched in 2004 for another six years. This will enable them to continue the Criança Esperança programme, which funds projects for children and young people in Brazil.
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11-07-2008 (DPI/NGO / UNESCO) - For the first time in its history, this important meeting of civil society will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 3 to 5 September 2008. Some 1700 NGOs associated with the United Nations will be gathered for three days of debate held under the banner of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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10-07-2008 (UNESCO) - UNESCO wishes to encourage research and policy analysis focusing on the relationship between poverty and human rights, and in particular on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. The deadline for the submission of project proposals is 31st August 2008.
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07-07-2008 (SHS e-News 28 / July 2008) - One of the significant projects which is being implemented by the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO for development in Africa, is the project of the Women's Rights Research and Documentation Centre for the Great Lakes Region. It is expected to reach the next milestone in July 2008.
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27-06-2008 (UNESCOPRESS) - UNESCO launched an international coalition of cities against racism and discrimination at the 3rd World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes (France) which takes place from 30 June to 3 July. The agreement on the coalition was signed on 30 June, during the Forum’s opening ceremony, by Pierre Sané, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, and representatives of the 6 regional coalitions of cities against racism and discrimination.
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24-06-2008 (UNESCO) - After the coalitions of cities against racism created in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, several municipalities in the Arab world (Casablanca, Doha, Essaouira, Cairo, Nouakchott, Rabat, Tangiers) have also decided to build a network to combat racism, discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.
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23-06-2008 (UNESCOPRESS) - Lauren Child, British author and illustrator of children’s books, has signed a partnership with UNESCO. It has been launched officially on 25 June in London. Under the terms of the partnership, Ms Child and her publisher Hachette Children’s Books will donate the royalties from her best-selling book “That Pesky Rat” for three years to UNESCO’s Programme for the Education of Children in Need.
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16-06-2008 (UNESCO) - On the occasion of the National Human Rights Day (18 June), the Ombudspersons’ Office of Azerbaijan organizes with the support of UNESCO an international conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 18 and 19 June 2008 in Baku.
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03-06-2008 (SHS e-News 27 / June 2008) - Covering the period April-June 2008, No. 20 of the quarterly magazine SHSViews from the Social and Human Science Sector of UNESCO has just been published in English and French and will soon be available in Spanish and Russian.
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11-12-2007 (UNESCO) - UNESCO's activities to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were launched at the Organization’s Headquarters on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2007. Events commemorating the anniversary will take place throughout 2008.
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