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The importance of deepening dialogue to ensure participative, transparent and informed culture policy making and implementation was singled out as the main driver for boosting the diversity of cultural expressions in Burkina Faso. Meeting in Bobo-Dioulasso, twenty-two experts spent three days in a capacity building workshop designed to monitor and bolster national cultural policy.
The highly...
Type: News
Language: English
The research organisation BOP Consulting is working with UNESCO to gather information and data for the 2017 edition of the UNESCO Global Report on the role of civil society in the promotion and implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
The Global Report is designed to identify the principal advances made in...
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Language: English
Radio facilitates public participation, the circulation of new ideas and the sharing of cultural expressions such as music. UNESCO promotes media diversity and the diversity of cultural expressions in Rwanda. Photo courtesy of Ishyo Arts Centre, one of the civil society participants in a UNESCO-run initiative in Rwanda.
Journalists, government representatives, civil society actors,...
Type: News
Language: English
UNESCO Havana joined in on World Radio Day in Cuba on 13 February to discuss community participation in radio production and explore how radio can be more responsive to citizens’ needs and cultural diversity.
“Radio is very important in Cuba, particularly provincial and community radio for encouraging local dialogue. Of the 96 radio stations in the national network, some 40 have a municipal...
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Language: English
Media Promotes Gender Equality was the major topic of this year’s World Radio Day in Viet Nam where more than 250 members of the press, academics, students and representatives from international organisations celebrated the transformative power of radio.
Public participation in radio was the overall theme of this year’s World Radio Day under the slogan “Radio is You!” As Susan Vize,...
Type: News
Language: English
Mauritius, with the support of UNESCO, has launched an initiative to design a new law to professionalize the status of artists in Mauritius. Defining their professional status, improving their economic and social working conditions - including through preferential treatment measures - and recognizing their role in the sustainable development of the island were at the heart of discussions held...
Type: News
Language: English
Djibouti and Mauritius have both recently taken initiatives to strengthen the socio-economic conditions of their artists, in accordance with the 1980 Recommendation on the Status of the Artist.
In recent years, several African countries have enhanced legislation related to this essential issue which ensures that artists can continue their work and enjoy the same rights as other working citizens...
Type: News
Language: English
On 3 March 2017 the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) launched its eighth call for funding requests. Since 2010, the IFCD is providing more than 6 million USD in funding for 90 projects in 51 developing countries, covering a wide range of areas. Public authorities/institutions and NGOs from developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention, as well as international...
Type: Call
Language: English
What are the emerging trends and development in the cultural field? How can countries and other stakeholders translate the provisions in the 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions into action? What are the policy areas of change and progress? These are some of the central questions experts will be exploring during their second Editorial Board...
Type: Event
Language: English