Social & Human Sciences

UNESCO is the United Nations’ lead agency for Physical Education and Sport (PES).

As one of UNESCO’s five specialized Sectors, our mission is to advance knowledge, standards and intellectual cooperation in order to facilitate social transformations conducive to the universal values of justice, freedom and human dignity. 

The social and human sciences have a vital role to play in helping to understand and interpret the social, cultural and economic environment. They provide research, identify and analyse trends, propose paths of action. UNESCO has set itself a number of tasks that should help reduce the gap between what is and what should be. This also corresponds to the work of the Sector for Social and Human Sciences (SHS): 

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• Determine what should be (ethics and human rights)
• Anticipate what could be (philosophy)
• Study what is (empirical social science research)

UNESCO addresses five major areas: 

• Democracy 
• International migration and multiculturalism 
• Physical Education and Sport 
• Urban development 
• Youth: Acting with and for Youth

   

To learn more about UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences thematic area, follow the links below:

• Ethics 
• Human Rights
• Philosophy
• Social Transformations
• Sports

One example from our work:

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