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 Set
up in Paris in 1992 by Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, The Universal Academy
of Cultures is placed under the patronage of the President of the French Republic
and carries out its activities with the support of the Prime Minister, and the
Ministries of Culture, Education and Foreign Affairs. It is composed of worldwide
personalities from the fields of literature, science and the arts.
Nobel
Prize winners in peace, literature, medicine or economics, writers, jurists, artists
or famous academics, all of whom are committed to fighting for democracy and human
rights, the members of the Universal Academy of Cultures meet at the Louvre Museum
in Paris.
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constitute a society for reflection and proposition whose stated aim is to consider
the future of the world from an ethical point of view and to suggest ways of acting
against intolerance, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, discrimination against
women, and of fighting against poverty, ignorance and the deliberate degradation
of certain forms of life.
To
debate these questions and prepare its action, the Academy appeals first and foremost
to all instances of education, culture and communication.
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