Social and Human Sciences

In today’s increasingly diverse societies, UNESCO continues to accomplish every day its fundamental humanist mission to support people in facing contemporary challenges, understanding each other, and working together to build lasting peace. UNESCO also helps to enable people to create and use knowledge for just, inclusive, resilient and democratic societies.

Social safety nets catch us in crisis, invest in those

Inclusive Policy Lab podcast -> Nadia Calviño, Vice-President & Minister for Economy & Digitalization, Spain

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#WeNeedToTalk

Launch of new UNESCO Framework for Enabling Intercultural Dialogue

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Call for nominations

International UNESCO/José Martí Prize 2023 Deadline: Friday 28 October 2022

Our priorities

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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Inclusion, Rights & Dialogue

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Ethics of Science, Technology & Bioethics

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Social Transformations

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Culture of Peace & Non-violence

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Sport & Anti-doping

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Social and Human Sciences

Enable people to create and use knowledge for just and inclusive societies

Highlights

Global Forum against Racism and Discrimination 2022

The second edition of the Forum will be held in Mexico City, on 28-29 November 2022. It will focus on the theme "The Road towards a Rights-based Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic".

Fit for Life

UNESCO launches a new sport-based initiative designed to activate smart investments in sport, increase grassroot participation and accelerate COVID-19 recovery.

Inclusive Policy Lab

The Inclusive Policy Lab works on knowledge crowdsourcing and its translation into inequality-reducing policies. It operates through an online platform and a network of in-country projects.

COVID-19

A major challenge prevails beyond all our potential actions: to protect human health and dignity, and to respect universal values.

Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers

This Recommendation both codifies the goals and value systems by which science operates, and emphasizes that these need to be supported and protected if science is to flourish.

Futures Literacy

Futures Literacy, a universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination.

General History of Africa

This series covers the history of the entire African continent, since the appearance of human beings to contemporary challenges.

Key facts

Only 22%

of all AI professionals

are WOMEN

281 million

international migrants

– 3.6 per cent of the world’s population – are living abroad worldwide

1.2 billion

is the number

of young people aged between 15 to 24 years

80.3%

of 13-15 year olds worldwide

do less than 60 minutes of exercise per day

This Youth initiative on COVID-19 connects and engages with young people to conduct research on the impacts of COVID-19 on young people and the responses young people have implemented to tackle these.

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