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What are UNESCO Clubs ?
With over 5,000 UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations, the Organisation benefits from an enormous potential for action within society in order to make values, behaviours, attitudes, and even regulations and laws evolve and change to meet its objectives. The movement is composed of ordinary citizens, of various ages and professional backgrounds, whose common characteristic is to be open to the world and work as volunteers towards a common ideal. An essential and acting vector of UNESCO, the movement recently made a formal commitment, with the July 1999 Yekaterinburg Declaration made during the 5th World Congress, to "contribute significantly to the building of a world of peace, justice, dignity and solidary".
Most of these UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations are grouped under National Federations, which are united in a World Federation working in close collaboration with UNESCO's Secretariat. The movement brings UNESCO insight and knowledge of the local context and help it execute its programmes.
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