UNESCO

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===The **United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization** ([|French]: //Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Éducation, la Science et la Culture//; **UNESCO**; is a specialized agency of the [|United Nations] (UN).=== ===Its purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the [|rule of law], and [|human rights] along with fundamental [|freedom] proclaimed in the=== ===[|UN Charter]. It is the heir of the [|League of Nations]' [|International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation].===

UNESCO has 195 member States and eight Associate Members. Most of the field offices are "cluster" offices covering three or more countries; there are also national and regional offices.
===UNESCO pursue its objectives through five major programs: education, [|natural sciences], social and [|human sciences], culture, and communication and information.===

===Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy, technical, and teacher-training programmes; international science programmes; the promotion of independent [|media] and [|freedom of the press]; regional and cultural [|history] projects; the promotion of [|cultural diversity]; translations of world literature; international cooperation agreements to secure the world [|cultural] and [|natural heritage] ([|World Heritage Sites]) and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the [|worldwide digital divide]. It is also a member of the [|United Nations Development Group].===

===UNESCO’s aim is "to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information".===

===Other priorities of the Organization include attaining quality [|education for all] and [|lifelong learning], addressing emerging social and ethical challenges, fostering [|cultural diversity], a culture of peace and building inclusive knowledge societies through information and communication.[|[]The broad goals and concrete objectives of the international community — as set out in the internationally agreed development goals, including the [|Millennium Development Goals (MDG)] — underpin all UNESCO’s strategies and activities.===