UNESCO Courier articles from March 1994

UNESCO Courier archives from March 1994

Edouard J. Maunick. (Mauritian poet) (Interview)
March 1, 1994... Among authors writing in French today, the Mauritian poet Edouard J. Maunick is one of those who most strikingly embodies and champions the values of a mixed racial background. He has written more than a dozen books, one of which, Ensoleille vif,...

The U-word. (universality of human rights)
March 1, 1994... This issue of the UNESCO Courier, devoted to human rights, focuses on the proceedings and outcome of the World Conference on Human Rights convened by the United Nations and held in Vienna (Austria) from 14 to 25 June 1993. The Conference was...

NGOs: the fight to be heard. (non-governmental organizations)
March 1, 1994... The non-governmental organizations were a force to be reckoned with at Vienna INTERNATIONAL conferences are not what they used to be. The atmosphere in which they once used to meet, with diplomats coming together to settle the affairs of the...

One and indivisible. (United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
March 1, 1994... The dangers of an a la carte approach to human rights SINCE the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the principle of the indivisibility of the rights of the individual has become, along with the principle of...

Free speech - democracy's watchdog. (includes related articles)
March 1, 1994... THE ancients, especially the Greeks and the Romans of the early Republic, wrote choice phrases in defence of the right to freedom of expression. Demosthenes, for example, declared that no greater calamity could befall a people than "the privation...

Small islands: dreams and realities. (GreenWatch)
March 1, 1994... IN Chinese mythology, heaven is represented as a group of rocky islands where the immortals lead a blissful existence, and in many other traditions--in India, Cambodia, Japan, Ireland and Britain, among the Celts and the ancient Greeks--islands...

States of bondage. (torture and human rights)(includes related article)
March 1, 1994... TORTURE is one of the most barbaric acts of state repression, and it constitutes a direct and deliberate attack on the core of the human personality. Like slavery, it is an expression of the almost unlimited power of one individual over another....

Seedplot for the future. (United Nations Conference on Human Rights)
March 1, 1994... The results of the Vienna Conference will take time to bear fruit How do the results of the Vienna Conference look today, several months after the meeting ended ? The most disappointing thing about the Conference,was that it failed to make a...

The rights of all.
March 1, 1994... IN 1950 the United Nations Economic and Social Council called on UNESCO to encourage and facilitate education relating to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted two years earlier, both in schools and among the adult population and...

A new departure. (United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria)
March 1, 1994... THE second World Conference on Human Rights brought together all the parties concerned with the implementation of these rights--governments, United Nations agencies, specialized and regional international bodies, non-governmental organizations,...

The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action. (Dossier)
March 1, 1994... Adopted 25 June 1993 by the World Conference on Human Rights The "Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action", extracts from which are published below, was adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights by consensus, but only after long and...

The Tunis Declaration. (Dossier)
March 1, 1994... Regional Meeting for Africa The Ministers and representatives of the African States meeting at Tunis from 2 to 6 November 1992, in the context of preparations for the World Conference on Human Rights, and pursuant to General Assembly...

The San Jose Declaration. (Dossier)
March 1, 1994... Regional Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean The representatives of the Latin-American and Caribbean countries, meeting in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica, from 18 to 22 January 1993, as part of the preparations for the World...

The Bangkok Declaration. (Dossier)
March 1, 1994... Regional Meeting for Asia The Ministers and representatives of Asian States, meeting at Bangkok from 29 March to 2 April 1993, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 46/116 of 17 December 1991 in the context of preparations for the World...

The Cairo Declaration. (Dossier)
March 1, 1994... on Human Rights in Islam The Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which God made the best nation that has given mankind a universal and well-balanced...

Haiti: King Henry's fabulous works. (includes related article) (UNESCO in Action)
March 1, 1994... IN the Caribbean lies an island known as the "Pearl of the Antilles". Here Christopher Columbus, westward bound from Seville in 1492 to seek the riches of the Indies, made his first promising landfall in the New World. A large, beautiful island,...

Venice: a picture of harmony. (Archives)
March 1, 1994... The visionary architect and town-planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret; 1887-1965) was one of the speakers at a symposium organized by the Institute of Intellectual Co-operation in Venice in 1934. Published below are extracts from the...