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The purpose of the Organisation is to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedom which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations. |
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To realise this purpose the Organization will:
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Collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication. |
(b) |
Give fresh impulse to the spread of culture and to popular education
by collaborating with members at their request in the development of educational activities;
by instituting collaboration among the nations to advance the ideal of equal opportunity without regard to race, sex or any distinctions, economic or social;
by suggesting educational methods best suited to prepare the children of the world for the responsibilities of freedom. |
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Maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge:
by assuring the conservation and protection of the world's inheritance of books, works of art and monuments of history and science; by encouraging co-operation among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity, including the international exchange of persons active in the fields of education, science and culture, and the exchange of publications, objects of artistic and scientific interest and other materials of information;
by initiating methods of international co-operation calculated to give the people of all countries access to the printed and published material produced by any one of them. | |