The UNESCO Story: A Resource and Action Booklet for Organizations and CommunitiesU.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1950 - 112 pages |
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Page 43 - Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Page 43 - Organization is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world without distinction of race, sex, language or religion by the Charter of the United Nations.
Page 7 - The governments of the states parties to this constitution on behalf of their peoples declare that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed...
Page 7 - ... the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible by the denial of the democratic principles of the dignity, equality and mutual respect of men. and by the propagation, in their place, through ignorance and prejudice, of the doctrine of the inequality of men and races...
Page 43 - Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. 2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Page 7 - DECLARE that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed; that ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war...
Page 7 - That a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.
Page 62 - States to promote a better understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Page 46 - is a missionary religion. It claims the right and the freedom to persuade any man to change his faith and accept Islam. Surely and obviously it must equally yield to other faiths the free right of conversion. There cannot be any doubt on that point. It would be most unreasonable to claim the right of conversion and to deny it to others.
Page 110 - Write to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARYSCHOOL PRINCIPALS 1201 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington 6, DC * All teachers in secondary education are eligible to membership in the National Association of Secondary-School Principals as associate members.