United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 682-683
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Director General ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Social Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Joint Report

In May 1950 the United Nations Secretary-General (Lie) and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Bodet) submitted a joint report to the Economic and Social Council entitled “Teaching about the United Nations and the Specialized Agencies”. This was in response to resolution 203 (VIII) of ECOSOC which requested the Secretary-General and the Director-General of UNESCO to submit jointly, not later than June 1, 1950, a complete, analytical report on the progress achieved in teaching about the United Nations in educational institutions of member states. The report was based largely on information received from nineteen member countries during 1949, but use also was made of statements received and included in two interim reports on teaching about the United Nations submitted to ECOSOC in 1948 and 1949. Altogether reports from 37 members were analyzed.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-453
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Director General ◽  
Present Level ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
The United Nations

The twenty-ninth session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, March 13–April 7, 1952, devoted most of its attention to the draft program and budget for 1953 and 1954. In presenting the drafts, the Secretary-General (Torres-Bodet) pointed out that they had been prepared, insofar as possible, to allow for a probable gap between UNESCO's actual resources and its theoretical budget brought about by members in arrears in contributions. In addition, the suggestions of the General Conference and the Economic and Social Council on program priorities had been followed. If UNESCO were to maintain its present level of activity, he continued, it would be necessary for the assessed budgets for each of the years 1953 and 1954 to be $9,895,029, an increase of $1,267,029 each year over the 1952 figure. Any expansion of the program, and the Director-General several times expressed opposition to stabilizing the program at its present level, would involve an even greater increase.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
General Organization

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held its 36th session in Paris, November 30 through December 9, 1953, under the chairmanship of General Sir Ronald Adam. The Board requested the Director-General to submit detailed proposals for the organization of the eighth session of the General Conferenceto the Board's 37th session. In preparing these, he was to take into account the views expressed by the Board, particularly those concerng arrangements for discussion of the Director-General's report, discussion of the draft program and budget estimates, general organization of meetings, voting procedure, and documents and records. organization of meetings, voting procedure, and documents and records. The Board recommended that the eighth session of the General Conference revise its rules of procedure to provide that, in case of doubt as to whether a proposed amendment was an amendment of substance or an amendment of form, it be deemed an amendment of substance unless a two-thirds majority favored interpreting it otherwise. The Board also requested member states to submit their reports for the eighth session of the Conference to the Director-General not later than April 15, 1954.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-326
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Director General ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its tenth General Conference in Paris from November 4 through December 5, 1958, under the presidency of Mr. Jean Berthoin (France). The General Conference recognized as valid the credentials of the delegations of 78 member states, the delegations of 4 associate members, and observers from 2 non-member states. The Conference had before it the report of the Director-General, covering the activities of the organization during 1957 and through September 1958, and the proposed program and budget for 1959–1960. The Director General summed up the activities of UNESCO in 1957–1958 by stating that these years had been marked by the launching of three Major Projects, by the coordinated expansion of the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance and of the program of participation in the activities of member states, by world-wide interest in certain particular achievements in the ordinary program, by a greater degree of concerted action within the UN system, and by the inauguration of UNESCO's definitive head-quarters in Paris on November 3, 1958.

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 632-633 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Director General ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
The United Nations

The report of the Director-General on the activities of the United Nations, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for 1960 included a discussion of: 1) relations with member states and international organizations; 2) execution of the program; and 3) administrative services. In the first section the Director-General commented that, in 1960, UNESCO's role had assumed its full importance in the collective system of international organizations and that its close cooperation with the UN had resulted in new possibilities for direct, large-scale action.

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-309 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its 57th session in Paris from October 28 to December 12, 1960. Under the heading, Execution of the Program, die Board discussed the item “Commemoration of anniversaries of great personalities and events.” In connection with diis item it was decided to request the Director-General to dispatch circular letters to member states, national commissions, and nongovernmental organizations drawing dieir attention to an attached list of great personalities and events and asking them to inform the Director-General of action taken by them to organize such commemorative celebrations as they deemed appropriate.

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-236 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Member States ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Special Fund ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its eleventh General Conference in Paris from November 14 to December 15, 1960, under the presidency of Mr. Akale-Work Abte-Wold (Ethiopia). Ninety-eight member states of UNESCO participated in the Conference compared with the 75 that were members in 1958 at the time of the tenth General Conference. The General Conference approved the program of activities for 1961–1962 and unanimously voted a budget of $32,513,228 to finance it; to this amount was added over $12 million provided by the United Nations Technical Assistance Fund to enable UNESCO to carry out many additional educational and scientific projects. UNESCO was also to act as executing agency for seventeen projects concerning higher technical education, for which the UN Special Fund was to provide more than $11 million in 1961–1962. Also allocated by the Conference was $915,000 for the construction of an additional building in Paris, the total cost of which was to be $3,535,000.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1963 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Director General ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
United Arab Republic ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Southern Rhodesia

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its 61st session in Paris from May 7 to May 29, 1962, under the chairmanship of Dr. Mohamed Awad (United Arab Republic). The Executive Board heard the Acting Director General's oral report on the activities of UNESCO since December 1961 and then reviewed the Acting Director-General's proposals on the Emergency Program of Financial Aid to Member States and Associate Members in Africa. It recommended that the Acting Director-General examine the possibility of carrying out the project for the establishment of a center for the production of school textbooks in Ethiopia and authorized allocations of $100,000 each for assisting educational planning in Southern Rhodesia and the Ivory Coast. The Board renewed its appeal to member states to continue contributing the emergency program so that at least the present deficit of $750,000 would be covered. The Acting Director-General was invited to report to the twelfth General Conference of UNESCO, to meet from November 9 to December 12, 1962, on the Organization's activities within the framework of the civilian operations of the UN in the Congo.

scholarly journals United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-539
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Clearing House ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Fundamental Education

Education: A report prepared for submission to the seventh session of the Economic and Social Council showed that seventy-five percent of funds available to UNESCO in the first three months of 1948 were allocated for the emergency purchase and distribution of books, educational material, scientific and technical equipment. In the fundamental education program for 1948, the two main elements were: 1) the establishment of a clearing-house of information through which techniques and methpds of education would be collected, analyzed and disseminated to member states; and 2) the giving of aid to member states in conducting pilot projects in Haiti, China, British East Africa and Peru, which aimed at abolishing illiteracy. From April 26 to May 1, experts on fundamental education met in Paris to discuss plans for future action.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 610-612
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Fundamental Education ◽  
The United Nations

The sixth General Conference of UNESCO was held in Paris from June 18 to July 11, 1951 to discuss an agenda which included the following subjects: 1) criteria adopted by the Economic and Social Council for the establishment of priorities in the programs of the United Nations and specialized agencies; 2) draft program for 1952; 3) education; 4) natural science; 5) social science; 6) exchange of persons; 7) mass communication; 8) relief assistance services; 9) activities in Germany and Japan; 10) establishment of a world network of regional fundamental education centers; 11) consideration of special reports; and 12) the paper shortage.

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