Download or read book UNESCO--an Ideal in Action written by Federico Mayor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Unesco and most of the other organizations of the United Nations system are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary, and despite the progress made by humanity in the past few decades, the world situation remains critical in several respects: intolerance, injustice, and inequality. This is an opportunity to ponder the meaning and the future of the ideals and principles underpinning Unesco's action by going back to the fountainhead of the Organization: its Constitution. In the light of emerging global trends it makes it possible to see the implications of ideas and concepts such as peace, the democratic ideal, respect for the human person in dignity and equality, the intellectual and moral solidarity of humanity, the ideal of equal education opportunity for all, the free exchange of ideas and knowledge shared prosperity and the advancement and dissemination of knowledge.