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In 2012, the former Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, and the former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, launched this institute. Initially, a two-member team operated out of the UNESCO office in New Delhi. The team has expanded to over 35 members and works out of its independent office in central New Delhi. [1]
The UNESCO General Conference adopted their recommendations in the fall of 1962 and the French Government provided a building to house this new institution. [2] Philip Hall Coombs who had been the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Kennedy administration , was appointed as its first director in 1963.
Rising With Kindness was the theme of the fourth International Youth Summit which started in 2018 [1] and was organised as a three-day residential seminar by Heartfulness in association with UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) and AICTE to spread awareness of practices for self, society, and environment.
Duraiappah has been the director, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) since 2014. [2] [15] During his directorship the institute has developed The International Science and Evidence based Education (ISEE) Assessment, [16] [17] LIBRE, [18] theTalking across Generations on Education (TAGe) [19] dialogue platform, the Knowledge Commons [20 ...
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO / j uː ˈ n ɛ s k oʊ /) [2] [a] is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.. The WDL has stated that its mission is to promote international and intercultural understanding, expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet, provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences, and to build capacity in partner ...
In UNESCO usage, a recommendation is a formal international instrument accepted by the member states of UNESCO (UNESCO, 1981). As is generally the case with international instruments, the Recommendation is soft law , that is, the enforcement of the norms and standards within the Recommendation is through the force of moral persuasion.