Social & Human Sciences

In today’s increasingly diverse societies, UNESCO continues to accomplish every day its fundamental humanist mission to support people in facing contemporary challenges, understanding each other, and working together to build lasting peace. UNESCO also helps to enable people to create and use knowledge for just, inclusive, resilient and democratic societies.

The 2nd Global Forum on the Ethics of AI: Changing the Landscape of AI Governance will be organized by Slovenia, under the patronage of UNESCO, on 5 and 6 February 2024.

Getting AI governance right is one of the most consequential challenges of our time, calling for mutual learning based on the lessons and good practices emerging from the different jurisdictions around the world.

This Forum will bring together the experiences and expertise of countries at different levels of technological and policy development, for a focused exchange to learn from each other, and for a dialogue with the private sector, academia and a wider civil society.

Our priorities

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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Fight against Racism & Discrimination

Fostering Inclusion, Rights and Dialogue

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Ethics of Science, Technology & Bioethics

Management of Social Transformations

Ethics of neurotechnology

Sport & Anti-doping

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Global Forum against Racism and Discrimination 2023

#WeNeedToTalk

Launch of new UNESCO Framework for Enabling Intercultural Dialogue

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The Policy Nerd Podcast Channel

Inclusive Policy Lab podcasts on data & policy solutions resetting us along a more equitable and smarter path

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The Silk Roads Programme

seeks to better understand the rich history and shared legacy of the historic Silk Roads

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Highlights

Fit for Life

UNESCO has launched a new sport-based initiative designed to activate smart investments in sport, increase grassroot participation and accelerate COVID-19 recovery.

Futures Literacy

Futures Literacy, a universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination.

Inclusive Policy Lab

The Inclusive Policy Lab works on knowledge crowdsourcing and its translation into inequality-reducing policies. It operates through an online platform and a network of in-country projects.

General History of Africa

This series covers the history of the entire African continent, since the appearance of human beings to contemporary challenges.

Routes of Enslaved Peoples

At the international level, the project has played a major role in "breaking" the silence surrounding the history of slavery.

Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers

This Recommendation both codifies the goals and value systems by which science operates, and emphasizes that these need to be supported and protected if science is to flourish.