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UNESCO: What is it? What does it do?

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on November 1945.

The most important thing for this organism of the United Nations is not to build schools in devastated countries or to publish scientific findings. The primary goal of the Organization is a wider and ambitious one: to construct peace in the mind of men through education, culture, natural and social science and communication.

Currently, UNESCO is a lab of ideas that establishes certain standards to make agreements related to ethical principles in a world-wide basis. The Organization is also a centre of knowledge and exchange of information. UNESCO supports the Member States in the construction of its human and institutional capacities in its different scopes of performance. In sum, UNESCO promotes the international cooperation in the matter of education, science, culture and communication in its 193 Member States and its six Associate Members.

The International Charter of Physical Education and Sport, signed in 1978 by General Conference of UNESCO, is an example of the many manifestations of physical exercise as a human right. The key elements of the UNESCO Charter are physical education and sports.

UNESCO supports the UN Millennium Development Goals through different strategies and activities.

- They are a fundamental right for everyone;
- They are indispensable for permanent education;
- They have to fulfil individual and social needs;
- They have to be practised by instructed individuals;
- They require the adequate infrastructure and equipment;
- They promote ethical, moral values
- They promote a positive media communication

Unescocat was founded in 1984 as a representative institution of UNESCO in Catalunya, and its goal is to spread and promote the ideas and values of this organization that belongs to the system of the United Nations. It has an official relationship with UNESCO and it has consultative statute in ECOSOC and the United Nations Department of Public Information. Unescocat’s job is to defend and to promote the value of all cultures in terms of peace, human rights, progress, education, sustainability, interreligious dialogue, linguistic diversity and patrimony.