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Social & Human Sciences
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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):

  • Determine what should be (ethics and human rights)

  • Anticipate what could be (philosophy and prospective studies)

  • Study what is (empirical social science research)

    • Social and Human Sciences sub-themes:

     

    News

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    • 12-09-2011
    UNESCO Lecture on Historic Districts for All – India: A Social and Human Approach for Sustainable Revitalisation
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    • 09-08-2011
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    • 11-07-2011
    Report of the UNESCO Forum of Ministers on Social Protection Policies in South Asia
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    • 24-06-2011
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    • 08-02-2011
    Sri Lanka host Third Ministerial Meeting: February 2011
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    Contacts

    Ms. Marina Faetanini
    • Programme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS)
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    • Updated:04-01-2012 10:21
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