<
 
 
 
 
×
>
You are viewing an archived web page, collected at the request of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) using Archive-It. This page was captured on 21:51:21 Aug 02, 2016, and is part of the UNESCO collection. The information on this web page may be out of date. See All versions of this archived page.
Loading media information hide
  1. Home
  2. The Convention

The Convention

The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a binding international legal instrument adopted by the UNESCO General Conference on 20 October 2005, during the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference held in Paris, France on 3–21 October 2005. The Convention compliments the previously established provisions of UNESCO including the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of 2001.

"The Convention recognises the rights of Parties to take measures to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions, and impose obligations at both domestic and international levels on Parties."

The Convention is available in six authoritative texts including:

English  French  Spanish  Arabic  Chinese  Russian

Historical background


Visit this page to learn more about the historical background of the 2005 Convention.
 

Access to basic texts


Click here to access all of the Basic Texts of the 2005 Convention as a single file in PDF format. 

contact

National Points of Contact