The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) also promotes the protection of human rights and human dignity. According to UNESCO, "Declarations are another means of defining norms, which are not subject to ratification. Like recommendations, they set forth universal principles to which the community of States wished to attribute the greatest possible authority and to afford the broadest possible support." UNESCO adopted the "Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Biomedicine" to advance the application of international human rights law in medical ethics. The Declaration provides special protection of human rights for incompetent persons.