CULTURENewsletter Archives 2007
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Translation at the heart of Cultural Diversity
Underwater Cultural Heritage
"Planet Earth: From Space to Place”
Dialogue: A priority for UNESCO
The Slave Trade
Networks and Partnerships
World Heritage
Once a year, the World Heritage Committee meets to decide on additions to the World Heritage List, which includes the most outstanding cultural and natural sites around the globe. Inscription on this List is just the first step towards safeguarding these sites: management and preservation are ongoing processes, involving local communities as well as national authorities.
Cultural diversity for dialogue and development
In today's world marked by the daily encounter and confrontation of a variety of codes and symbols, cultural diversity presents a double challenge: ensuring harmonious co-existence between individuals and groups from different cultural horizons while defending creativity through the numerous expressions of the world's cultures,
Intangible Heritage - the mirror of cultural diversity
Intangible cultural heritage comprises the living expressions and traditions that communities, groups and individuals in every part of the world receive from their ancestors and pass on to their descendants. Constantly recreated and providing its bearers with a sense of identity and continuity, this heritage is particularly vulnerable. For these reasons, the international community adopted the Convention
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions enters into force
To date, more than 50 States have ratified the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which entered into force on 18 March 2007. Henceforth, international co-operation will serve as an innovative platform for promoting creative industries in all of their diversity.
The Arab World: Diversity, dialogue and development
Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Arab World is not only a meeting point of cultures, but also, and above all, a cultural mediator whose contribution to the history of human thought has been tremendous. Intercultural dialogue, heritage, literature, contemporary issues are some of the fields in which UNESCO has launched activities in the region.
Languages: diversity, participation, dialogue
Languages contribute significantly to integration processes in schools, the media, the workplace, political life and public services. However, thousands of languages are absent in these areas, and fifty per cent of the world's 6,000 languages are in danger of disappearing. In this context, UNESCO has a duty to take action through its complex normative framework in favour of multilingualism.
Memory and Universality: New Challenges Facing Museums
Public debate, Monday 5 February, 7 - 9 p.m., UNESCO Headquarters, Room XI, and webcast beginning 6 February.The public debate Memory and Universality will focus on the issue of the universal mission of museums vs. the massive transfers of cultural property over the course of history.
Museums: New Challenges
Museums serve as unique forums for our collective memory – including some of the most painful chapters of human history. They also constitute extraordinary repositories for cultural diversity's numerous manifestations, whether from the domain of heritage, contemporary creation or from the social arena. To ensure that the widest possible public gains access to cultural heritage and knowledge, which foster social cohesion and mutual understanding among cultures, UNESCO devotes its energies to implementing in
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