On November 16, 1945 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was signed into existence in London by 37 countries and came into force with the 20th ratification on 4 November 1946. The 1946 founding document written by Julian Huxley aimed to justify the “re-legitimization of eugenics as an idea that would once again become thinkable”. [3]
The stated purpose of the organisation was “to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.”
Julian Huxley went on to co-found the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. [1, 2]
“Within a generation, science was once again ready to tell us why the only way to save humanity was to stop people from breeding: this time, the public was whipped into a furor not about Jews and Gypsies, but about carbon dioxide and environmental sustainability,” investigative journalist James Corbett states.