UNESCO Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy

Code of Conduct

UNESCO maintains a robust Code of Conduct to ensure professional and ethical behavior associated with all UNESCO activities and platforms. Participants are expected to declare any conflicts of interest and conduct themselves in accordance with the highest professional ideals.

Conflict of Interest Policies

Members of the UNESCO Board, Officers of UNESCO, and members of UNESCO’s councils, committees, and task forces, as well as the House of Delegates, who have an interest that is or may be material to the matter being considered, which would reasonably be expected to impair their objectivity, must publicly disclose that interest.

Digital Code of Conduct

By accessing and using this website, you agree to the following Code of Conduct. If you do not agree to the Code of Conduct, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy, you must immediately terminate your use of this site.

To help UNESCO maintain dialogue that is relevant and respectful of others’ rights, you understand that when you submit comments, posts, or images on UNESCO’s digital platforms, you will not:

• Spread false and/or defamatory information.
• Include content that is discriminatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy or right to publicity, or otherwise violative of any law.
• Infringe on copyrights, trademarks, or trade secrets.
• Post content that includes private and/or personal information, such as home phone numbers and email addresses.
• Promote commercial services and products, or causes.
• Post in a manner that would constitute spamming (e.g., posting with such frequency or repetitiveness that others may be discouraged from posting, posts that are irrelevant to the topic and/or UNESCO’s mission, and “follow me” posts) or trolling (defined as comments that appear intended to send the discussion in a fruitless direction).

UNESCO does not have the obligation to monitor User-Generated Content but reserves the right to do so. Content that is posted in violation of this policy may be blocked or removed at UNESCO’s sole discretion. Violations of this Code of Conduct may result in suspension or termination of your access to this site or your ability to post content.

By submitting content online, you grant UNESCO a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, download, duplicate, display, distribute, modify, and create derivative works of that content without further approval or permission and without compensation by UNESCO.

As a courtesy, please do not send commercial messages directly to participants on this platform unless specifically invited to do so by such individual. Complaints about unsolicited commercial messages are taken very seriously.

UNESCO is not responsible for the opinions or claims of other users posted to our digital channels, and we do not typically confirm the accuracy of postings. User-generated content, such as comments or posts, represent the views of those providing the content and do not necessarily represent the views or policy of UNESCO. References or links (provided by UNESCO or by a user) to products or services do not constitute endorsements by UNESCO.

Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (c), if you believe in good faith that a copyrighted work has been reproduced on this website without authorization in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, you may send a notice to: UNSC-UN; Attention, Office of General Counsel. Your notice must contain, at a minimum:

• A statement that you believe in good faith that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner.
• The identification and location of the material claimed to be infringing.
• Reasonably sufficient information for UNESCO to identify and contact the infringer.
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
• Your contact information.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

This Code of Conduct may be amended or modified at any time.