SOCIOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A Trend Report. Edited by Hans L. Zetterberg. Paris, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 1956. 156 pp. $2.50

Social Forces ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-281
Author(s):  
A. Schaffer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization

United States Gives Notice of Withdrawal from UNESCO, Citing Anti-Israel Bias

2018 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

On October 12, 2017, the United States announced its intent to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing “concerns with mounting arrears …, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias.” The United States will remain a full UNESCO member until December 31, 2018, when the withdrawal becomes effective. Thereafter, it will continue to engage with UNESCO as a non-member observer state.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-500
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Fundamental Education ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Children In The Middle

Executive BoardThe nineteenth session of the Executive Board of UNESCO met from February 13 to 25,1950. Discussion of the program to be presented to the fifth session of the General Conference continued. The Board attempted to design the program to fit a budget of $8,000,000 — the same figure as for 1950. Other arrangements for the Florence Conference were completed. Invitations were sent to the occupying authorities in the Eastern and Western Zones of Germany and in Japan to send observers, accompanied, if they wished, by expert nationals, to the General Conference. A credit of $40,000 was extended to allow UNESCO to continue for the rest of 1950 its assistance to refugee children in the Middle East. The Board discussed other program activities including the sending of a mission of experts to Ecuador to advise in fundamental education experiments in the areas recently devastated by earthquake. Finally it was decided to recommend that the Conference accept the applications for membership from the United States of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan.

scholarly journals The Theory and Practice of UNESCO

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhold Niebuhr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
International Agency ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
World Community ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Secretary Of State

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is in the paradoxical position of performing most useful and necessary functions in the nascent world community but of giving very implausible reasons for the performance of its functions. Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, who was until recently responsible for the United States government's UNESCO policy, reported after the Paris UNESCO conference in 1949 that the organization “had a wider public support” and yet was “more widely criticized” than any other international agency. He rightly suggested that the criticisms were prompted by UNESCO enthusiasts who claimed too much for its functions and thus aroused the opposition of realists who did not believe that its contributions to peace were as important as the organization claimed.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-592
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Director General ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up

The second extraordinary session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was held in Paris from July 1 to 6, 1953. After setting up credentials and nominations committees, the Conference set up a drafting committee on personnel questions and elected two members of the Executive Board. Acting upon the nomination presented to it by the Executive Board, the Conference, by a vote of 39 to 17, appointed Dr. Luther H. Evans, Librarian of the United States Congress, as Director-General of the organization. The appointment was for a period of six years.

Różne perspektywy dotyczące skutków art. 95 CISG

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Danuta Pohl-Michałek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
International Sale Of Goods ◽  
Conflict Of Law

The 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) was adopted in order to provide uniform rules governing the international sale of goods. It has already been ratified by an impressive number of 92 Contracting States, with the major trading countries taking the lead. The CISG applies to contracts for the sale of goods between parties whose places of business are in different States, where the States are CISG Contracting States (Article 1(1)(a)). Moreover, it applies to contracts for the sale of goods when the contracting parties have their places of business in different States and when the rules of private international law lead to the application of the law of a CISG Contracting State (Article 1(1)(b)). However, at the time of ratification, the prospective Contracting States are given the possibility of making additional reservations, including one set out in Article 95 CISG, which limits the application of Article 1(1)(b) of the Convention. Although there are some CISG Contracting States that initially applied the reservation but have since withdrawn it, there are still a few Contracting States where the reservation remains[1], including the two largest trading countries – China and the United States. The paper presents various approaches regarding the interpretation of the effects of the reservation set out in Article 95 CISG, which in fact challenge the principle of the uniform interpretation and application of the Convention’s provisions. The author argues that the Article 95 CISG reservation leads to increased confusion and problematic conflict of law issues that bring more chaos than benefits.   [1] The remaining Article 95 CISG Reservatory States are: Armenia, China, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Slovakia and the United States of America. Information is based on the official website: https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=X-10&chapter=10 (accessed: 9.12.2019).

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