Most Recent Articles from UNESCO Courier

• The Greatest Enemies to Liberty - Ethics - October 1958 

  In 1947 while the U. N. Commission on Human Rights was working out an international bill of rights, UNESCO carried out a broad enquiry into the...

  12/01/01 by Aldous Huxley · More from publication

• 'Culture must be one of the foundations for world understanding' - Culture - June 1996 - Brief Article 

  (1879-1955) (1879-1955) In order to grasp the full significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is well to be fully aware of...

  12/01/01 by Albert Einstein · More from publication

• Race, history and culture - Ethics - March 1996 

  One of the world's leading anthropologists, Claude Levi-Strauss twice set forth his ideas on racism for UNESCO, first in Race and History (1952)...

  12/01/01 by Claude Levi-Strauss · More from publication

• The Pugwash movement - Science - August 1986 

  THE direct initiative for the Pugwash Movement came not from a scientist but from the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. In 1955, the world...

  12/01/01 by Joseph Rotblat · More from publication

• Document: Vaclav Havel - Ethics - June 1990 - Interview 

  President of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, is a playwright and a fighter for freedom. It was as a dissident writer that he won the reputation...

  12/01/01 by Michael Bongiovanni · More from publication

• The Divorce of Science & 'Culture': A phenomenon of our time - Science - February 1958 - Brief Article 

  THERE was a time when scientists looked askance at attempts to make their work widely intelligible. But, in the World of the present day, such an...

  12/01/01 by Bertrand Russell · More from publication

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