United Nations Academic Impact

ST PAULS COLLEGE has joined a vast network of more than 1400 institutions in more than 145 countries who are members of United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), an initiative of the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Global Communications. UNAI aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in supporting and contributing, through research and education, to the realization of the Organization u2019s goals and mandates, namely through undertaking activities related to the ten UNAI Principles.

Principles

1. A commitment to addressing issues of poverty through education.
2. A commitment to building capacity in higher education systems across the world.
3. A commitment to educational opportunity for all people regardless of gender, race, religion or ethnicity.
4. A commitment to encouraging global citizenship through education.
5. A commitment to the opportunity for every interested individual to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for the pursuit of higher education.
6. A commitment to human rights, among them freedom of inquiry, opinion, and speech.
7. A commitment to promoting intercultural dialogue and understanding, and the u201cunlearningu201d of intolerance, through education.
8. A commitment to advancing peace and conflict resolution through education.
9. A commitment to promoting sustainability through education.
10. A commitment to the principles inherent in the United Nations Charter

R & D members are required to foster and promote these principles on campus and in their communities by involving faculty, staff and students in undertaking at least one activity each year which actively addresses at least one of these ten basic principles or one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).