Akshay AgrawalAIR 43 · CSE 2018 · 168 wordsTheir whole copy
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and cultural organisation (UNESCO) is an independent arm of the United Nations that aims at promoting educational, scientific, and cultural developments of the member nations.
Its main functions are:
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- to promote development of education in countries, which is sensitive to local culture, traditions and customs.
- to promote rational and scientific outlook amongst people by its various programmes.
- to promote cultural exchanges among member nations.
- to promote development of world heritage sites, their protection, and maintenance.
- to promote sustainable development of cities on traditional lines, by ranking cities and including them in the list of 'Heritage cities'.
- to designate sites of international importance and promote their development & protection.
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UNESCO, although has noble objectives, has been torn with clashes between member countries. USA recently decided to pull out of UNESCO and therefore funding of UNESCO would be seriously affected. Also, it has not been able to persuade members enough to protect world heritage sites due to lack of incentives.
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