Association of Former UNESCO Staff members

The objectives of the Association are essentially: to uphold the rights of its members and to defend their moral and material interests vis-à-vis all the authorities concerned, in particular the Director-General and Administration of Unesco, and the organs of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund; to maintain former staff members’ bonds of friendship and mutual interest, both among themselves and with serving staff members; to provide its members assistance and information on matters within its competence (pensions, health insurance and other matters of a social nature) that they may encounter as individuals; to contribute, as far as it is able, to the organization of cultural and leisure activities for its members; to provide serving staff members, in its fields of competence, with information that might be of use to them at the time of separation from service. On the basis of the experience of its members, it also proposes to contribute to the attainment of the goals of Unesco and the whole of the United Nations system.