MULTILATERAL-UNESCO-SEPT. 30 , 1946 2497 ARTICLE I. Purposes and Functions 1. 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 funda- mental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations. 59 stat. 1031. 2. To realise this purpose the Organisation will: (a) collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communi- cation and to that end recommend such international agree- ments as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image; (b) give fresh impulse to popular education and to the spread of culture; by collaborating with Members, at their request, in the development of educational activities; by instituting collaboration among the nations to ad- vance the ideal of equality of educational opportunity without regard to race, sex or any distinctions, economic or social; by suggesting educational methods best suited to pre- pare the children of the world for the responsibilities of freedom; (c) maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge; by assuring the conservation and protection of the world's inheritance of books, works of art and monu- ments of history and science, and recommending to the nations concerned the necessary international conventions; by encouraging cooperation among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity, including the inter- national exchange of persons active in the fields of education, science and culture and the exchange of pub- lications, objects of artistic and scientific interest and other materials of information; by initiating methods of international cooperation calculated to give the people of all countries access to the printed and published materials produced by any of them. 3. With a view to preserving the independence, integrity and fruitful Noninterention in matters within domes- diversity of the cultures and educational systems of the States Mem- tic jurisdiction. bers of this Organisation, the Organisation is prohibited from intervening in matters which are essentially within their domestic jurisdiction. 61 STAT.]
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