UNESCO statements on race

Morris Ginsberg
Claude Levi-Strauss
Edwin G. Conklin
Gunnar Dahlberg
Julian Huxley

UNESCO has published several statements about issues of race.[1]

The statements include:[2]: Foreword 

  • Statement on race (Paris, July 1950)
  • Statement on the nature of race and race differences (Paris, June 1951)
  • Proposals on the biological aspects of race (Moscow, August 1964)
  • Statement on race and racial prejudice (Paris, September 1967)

Other statements include the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1963), the "Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice" (1978) and the "Declaration of Principles on Tolerance" (1995).

  1. ^ Banton, Michael (2008). "UNESCO Statements on Race". In Schaefer, Richard T. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society. Sage. pp. 1098–1100. ISBN 978-1-4129-2694-2.
  2. ^ "Four statements on the race question". Paris: UNESCO. 1969. Document code: COM.69/II.27/A.