UNESCO : The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Founded: 16 November 1945 (London, United Kingdom)

Formation: ‎4 November 1946

Headquarters: Paris, France

Head: Audrey Azoulay

Parent Organization: United Nations Economic and Social Council

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; French: Organization des Nations Use Lédisse, La Science et la Culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN), which aims to "contribute" to the building. Interaction, science, culture, communication, and information through peace, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and education. It is the successor of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.

History:  The collaboration is based in Geneva, which will be formed on 4 January 1922 and will have as its executive agency, since 1925, the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation.

Also in that year, on 18 December 1925, the Bureau of International Education began its activity, first as a private institution, and then from 1929, as an inter-governmental organization, promoting international cooperation through education and science gives.

These initial efforts were eventually interrupted by World War II. But in 1942, the Conference of Allied Education Ministers (CAME) took place in England, bringing first European countries and later the United States.

At the initiative of CAME, a United Nations Conference on the Establishment of an Education and Culture Organization was held in London in November 1945. Representatives from forty states participated and decided to establish an organization to establish a culture of peace on intellectual grounds. And the moral solidarity of humanity.

At the end of the conference, 37 states signed the constitution marking the birth of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The UNESCO Constitution came into force in 1946, ratified by twenty states: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States.

The first session of the General Conference was held in Paris from 19 November to 10 December 1946 with the participation of representatives from thirty countries. UNESCO's history began with the aim of building peace in the minds of men and women through education, science, and culture.