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.

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

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-561
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Fundamental Education ◽  
Set Up

Executive Board37th Session: The 37th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Board was held in Paris from March 10 to April 9, 1954, under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald Adam. At its opening meeting, the Board heard oral reports from the chairman, Professor Oscar Secco Ellauri and the Director-General on a visit they had made to member states in Asia. The report of the Director-General on the activities of UNESCO in 1953 was considered by the Board in conjunction with the draft program of work and budget estimates for 1955–1956 prepared by the Director-General and the preparation of recommendations to the General Conference. The Board approved comments to be made in communicating the report of the Director-General to member states, and also a report on its own work during 1953. Various modifications in the Director-General's draft program and budget estimates for 1955–1956 were recommended by the Board, which decided to prepare its recommendations to the eighdi session of the General Conference at its 38th session, on the basis of the revised draft to be presented at that time by the Director-General. The Board approved reports from the Program Commission on Fundamental Education Centers and the special committee set up to study questions relating to subventions to non-governmental organizations.

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.

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

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-652
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Financial Regulations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
The United Nations

The thirtieth session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization met at UNESCO House in Paris from May 26 to June 6, 1952. The board approved a provisional agenda for the seventh session of the UNESCO General Conference, which was scheduled to open on November 12, as well as proposals concerning the organization of its work. The board decided that the fourth meeting of representatives of national commissions should be held on November 8 and 10 and December 11, and approved the Director-General's proposals regarding the agenda for this meeting. Draft amendments to the rules of procedure of the General Conference, to the financial regulations, and to the directives concerning relations with international non-governmental organizations, necessitated by adoption of the system of biennial sessions of the General Conference, were approved.

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