The United States National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1946 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 568
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Himstead
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Commission ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

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

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.

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.

"Felicitas Liberorum Suprema Lex" (IYC in Poland and the World)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 695-696
Author(s):  
Lucas L. Kulczycki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
National Commission ◽  
The World ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The United Nations

The year 1979, the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Children, formulated by the United Nations, is declared an International Year of the Child (IYC). During this year each nation is focusing on the problems and needs of its own children, and attempting to share its resources with needy children of the world. An International Secretariat of UNICEF is coordinating world activities of the IYC. In the United States a National Commission of the IYC was established with Mrs. Jean Young as chairperson. The National Institutes of Health launched an exhibit entitled "NIH Research: Helping Children Grow into Healthy Adults."

The Creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1970 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Krill de Capello
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Organization ◽  
National Committee ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

The history of the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) encompasses essentially two international conferences: the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Allied Governments and the French National Committee (CAME) which took pJace in London from 1942 through 1945 and the Conference of the United Nations for the Establishment of an International Organization for Education and Culture, held November 1–16, 1945. The latter conference, called jointly by the governments of France and the United King dom, was partially a result of the former and was also held in London. At this two-week conference UNESCO's constitution was drafted and adopted. In this development a part was played by the founding process of the United Nations whose Charter, adopted at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in June 1945, foresaw the advancement of international cooperation in culture and education. The founding conference of UNESCO considered itself the executor of this mandate. This article will show how the idea of international cultural cooperation was developed during the Second World War at the meetings of CAME, how it was modified by the United States aid policy toward Europe, how it was influenced by French traditions of intellectual cooperation manifested within the framework of the League of Nations, and how it led finally to the creation of a new specialized agency of the United Nations.

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