UNESCO

UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. It is one of the 16 legally independent specialised organisations within the United Nations and it has its headquarters in Paris/France.
The Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO declares that “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed”.The Constitution was signed by 37 states in London on 16 November 1945. Austria joined UNESCO on 13 August 1948. Today, UNESCO is made up of 193 member states

The purpose of UNESCO is to promote international cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture and communication/information in order to preserve peace and security, because the experience of the Second World War has taught humanity 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”.

Contact
UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
F-75352 Paris 07 SP
www.unesco.org