LAHORE – United Nations selected Lahore University of Management Sciences as one of its ten partners for Academic Impact project.
In an effort to bolster ‘intellectual social responsibility’ for such global goals as promoting human rights, protecting the environment and ending wars, the UN had partnered with institutions of higher learning around the world in a new initiative called Academic Impact in which one goal would be associated with each educational institution.
LUMS was selected from Pakistan for the “Education Opportunity for All” principle. Academic Impact gave active support to 10 universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution, all of which were based on the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals targets.