UNESCO and education: everyone has the right to education

Since its creation in 1945, UNESCO’s mission has been to contribute to the building of peace, poverty eradication, lasting development and intercultural dialogue, with education as one of its principal activities to achieve this aim. The Organization’s other fields of action include the natural sciences, the social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information.

Today, UNESCO is committed to a holistic and humanistic vision of quality education worldwide, the realization of everyone’s right to education, and the belief that education plays a fundamental role in human, social and economic development.

Educational objectives

• supporting the achievement of Education for All (EFA)
• providing global and regional leadership in education
• building effective education systems worldwide from early childhood to the adult years
• responding to contemporary global challenges through education