UNESCO: Statement on Race, 1950. Social Sciences Coursework

UNESCO: Statement on Race, 1950
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UNESCO: Statement on Race, 1950
Question 1
a) 1945 (UNESCO in brief- Mission and Mandate, 1)
b) The reason UNESCO has pursued numerous interventions and actions on the matter of race and racism is fight against racism and discrimination. The various instruments serve as key standards setting documents to thwart threats on peace and social stability as mandated by the UNESCO’S Constitution of 1945 (UNESCO’s past strategies and action, 1).
c) (i) Some of the “normative instruments by UNESCO include (UNESCO Social and Human Sciences, 1)
Convention against Discrimination in Education
Declaration of Principles on Tolerance
Declaration on Fundamental Principles concerning the Contribution of the Mass Media to Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, to the Promotion of Human Rights and to Countering Racialism, apartheid and incitement to war
Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Recommendation concerning Education of International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
(ii) The purpose of the “normative instruments” is the wish for UNESCO “to take steps in order to revitalize, complete and/or ratify the normative texts that it produced and that are related to the problem of racism and discrimination.”
d) (Four Statements on the race question, 8)
Statement number

Year and City of issuance

Full Title

First statement

1950, Paris

The 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race

Second statement

1951, Paris

Statement on the nature of race and race diffrences

Third statement

1964, Moscow

Proposals on the biological aspects of race

Fourth statement

1967, Paris

Statement on race and racial prejudice

Question 3 (The 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race)
a) From the biological standpoint of race, the cause or source of physical differences among humans are somewhat different biological histories.
b) “variation… on a common theme” in paragraph 3 on race from a biological standpoint means that humans are all the same and the slight physical differences do make them more or less humans.
c) “variation… on a common theme” in paragraph 3 on race from a biological standpoint challenges the statement “what is perceived is largely preconceived, so that each group tends to misinterpret the variability”.
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