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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16, 1945. Its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the UN Charter.
UNESCO was present at the inception of WAYS and continues to provide logistical support.
Scientists Without Borders
Scientists Without BordersSM is a new initiative that aims to improve quality of life in the developing world by linking institutions and people who perform science-based activities. Its first project is a free online database that offers its members the power to join forces across organizations, disciplines, and distances to match needs with resources and deliver an impact that they could not have achieved independently. Members of WAYS are welcome to join this new and exciting online community...and vice versa.
Contact: Evelyn Strauss, Estrauss (at) nyas.org
International Council for Science
The International Council for Science (ICSU), formerly called the International Council of Scientific Unions, was founded in 1931 as an international non-governmental organization devoted to international co-operation in the advancement of science. Its members are national scientific bodies, and international scientific unions.
ICSU actively supports the development of WAYS-Africa.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (or AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. It is the world's largest general scientific society, with nearly 120,000 individual and institutional members in 2007, and publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science.
WAYS is currently developing links with the AAAS through its Science and Human Rights Program.
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