United Nations: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday launched a programme honouring Rabindranath Tagore, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and French poet Aime Cesaire for their work that 'carried high the standard of humanist values'.
Coming from varied geographic, social and political backgrounds, Tagore, Neruda and Cesaire still showed a commitment to speaking for the voiceless, the United Nation (UN) body said.
"By challenging relations based on domination and submission, whether they concern colonialism, fascism or racism, their message attains a universal dimension," it said.
Launched in the wake of the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures of 2010, the programme aims to promote translations, publications and creations connected to the three writers, facilitating the dissemination and adaptation of their message.
A tribute to Tagore was organised with India's and Bangladesh's permanent delegations to UNESCO as part of the 150th anniversary of his birth, with song, dance and poetry readings.
The programme would focus on three themes of emancipation from oppression, human being and nature and the educational challenge.
An illustrated book titled 'Rabindranath Tagore, Pablo Neruda, Aime Cesaire for a reconciled universal' brought out on the occasion examines the legacy of the three authors and their messages from a comparative perspective.
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