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On 26 February 2018 UNESCO launches its 9th IFCD call for funding and a new initiative with Sabrina Ho “U40 Empowered: Women entrepreneurs powering the digital creative industries”.9th IFCD callThe International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) is a multi-donor fund, established by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) to...
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Limited access to markets and restricted mobility represent some of the main challenges facing artists and cultural professionals from the global South. In 2016, UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) provided financial support to the musical quartet Namibian Tales and the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) to promote the access of Namibian musical products to new markets. As...
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The project "Music as a driver for sustainable development in Morocco", implemented by the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb and funded by the German Government (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), will be launched at a first day of consultation on March 13, 2018 in Rabat, Morocco.
Launch of the project in Morocco. Day 13
This pilot project, to...
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As part of a wider exercise to support innovative systems of governance for culture and to improve transparency and accountability, the Secretariat of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the protection and promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions has opened a call for applications for Drupal Development Services.The Knowledge Management System (KMS) Creativity is a Drupal-based platform...
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On March 8, 2018, Prime Ministers of Québec and France, Philippe Couillard and Edouard Philippe, issued in Paris on the occasion of the 20th Alternating Meetings, a joint statement on the Internet and the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions in the digital environment.This statement, coming a few months after the adoption in June 2017 of the operational guidelines on...
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Category 2 institutes and centres under the auspices of UNESCO are intended to contribute to the achievement of UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives and sectoral or intersectoral programme priorities and themes and to the attainment of programme results at the Main Line of Action (MLA) level of the UNESCO programme and budget (C/5).The Regional Centre for Book Development in Latin America and...
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UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies” will be launched at the Musée Théodore Monod d’Arts Africain in Dakar, Senegal, on March 21 2018, from 4:00pm to 6:30pm.The Report assesses the impact of the most recent policies and measures taken around the world to implement the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.Specifically...
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Morocco has taken an important step in support of artists and creativity. A new law on the status of the artist, artist mobility fund "Africa Art Lines" and the creation of the Bureau of Moroccan Music Export (MoMEx), strengthens the music industry in particular, in line with the objectives of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions...
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On 21 March 2018, UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report "Re|Shaping Cultural Policies" was launched at the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art, bringing together nearly 200 people, including representatives from various cultural and public institutions. Organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (IFAN), the event was part of a series of seminars on...
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“What difference did we make?” was the central question of a debriefing meeting organized from 19 to 21 March 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. Since 2014, UNESCO has been implementing the project “Enhancing fundamental freedoms through the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions” in 12 partner countries (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal...
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We are pleased to present the latest instalment of UNESCO’s Culture Sector podcast, Talking about Culture. In this episode, Danielle Cliche, Secretary of the 2005 Convention, and Octavio Kulesz, member of the 2005 Convention Expert Facility and one of the authors behind the 2018 Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies”, reveal how the digital revolution has fundamentally transformed how...
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Within the framework of the re-designed Aschberg programme for artists and cultural professionals, international experts will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 18 to 20 April 2018 to analyze how the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and its related clauses on preferential treatment are implemented through trade agreements. This...
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The Secretariat of the 2005 Convention is looking for a Webdesign/UI/UX intern. The Knowledge Management System (KMS) Creativity is a Drupal-based platform that promotes the work of the 2005 Convention by sharing good practices and knowledge and by collecting and systematically organizing complex data. The KMS platform also serves the distribution of key resources and publications. The internship...
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On Wednesday April 25, at 18:30 pm at the A.G. Leventis Gallery in Nicosia, the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO are co-organizing, in the context of the release of UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies”, an event on the topic of “Cultural Expressions and Pluralism: Aspects of Contemporary Creativity in...
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As part of the project “Strengthening the Sustainability of the Film Industry in Uzbekistan" funded by the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, a first workshop on documentary filmmaking was held between 10 and 12 April in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The event organized by the UNESCO Tashkent Office in partnership with the National Association of Electronic Mass Media (NAEMM)...
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Under the topic “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and the Rule of Law”, World Press Freedom Day 2018 (Accra, Ghana, 2-3 may 2018) will encourage global discussions about current challenges to freedom of expression, but also media diversity and artistic freedom. On this occasion, UNESCO will organize two sessions: one for the joint launch of the UNESCO Report on “World Trends in...
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Within the framework of the re-designed Aschberg programme for artists and cultural professionals, UNESCO will organize on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2018 (Accra, Ghana, 2-3 may 2018) for the first time a two-day training workshop on 3 and 4 May for civil society and government officials from Ghana on policies and measure to promote and monitor artistic freedom.The training will be...
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The Indonesian language edition of UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies” summary will be launched at Fairmont Hotel on 8 May in conjunction with UNESCO’s World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development Global Report 2017/2018 and the 2017 Indonesian Press Freedom Index from 8:30am to 15:00pm.The Report assesses the impact of the most recent policies and...
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The restitution workshop of the first periodical report of Niger was held on Thursday 19 April at the Cultural Center Oumarou Ganda of Niamey in the presence of the Assoumana Mallam Issa, Minister of Cultural Renaissance. The event provided an opportunity for all stakeholders involved to reflect on the ambitious work done in recent months.Niger’s first quadrennial periodic report (QPR) on the...
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Participants of the UNESCO project “Strengthening the sustainability of creative industries in Uganda” came together on 26 April to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD) during an event organized in Kampala, Uganda. The event highlighted the importance of intellectual property rights in sustaining women in creative fields. It also marked the conclusion of the capacity-building project...
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UNESCO and the Embassy of Poland in Uzbekistan in close cooperation with the Film School "Focus" will organize a master class on script writing and film production on 4 May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The purpose of the master class will be to train young scriptwriters and producers in the preparation of film scripts and to familiarize the participants with the necessary knowledge and skills aimed...
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For the third year running, artistic freedom was in the spotlight of World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) held this year in Accra, Ghana (2-3 May). To mark this occasion, artists, human rights activists and media professionals came together to debate global emerging challenges to artistic freedom in the digital environment. A call for joint action from artists and journalists to work closely together...
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UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies” will be launched at Theatre in the Park on 16 May in Harare, Zimbabwe from 10:00am to 1:30pm.The Report assesses the impact of the most recent policies and measures taken around the world to implement the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.Specifically, it tracks progress on the...
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In celebration of this year’s World Press Freedom Day, a joint launch of UNESCO’s two new global reports, “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies” and the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development Global Report was organized in Jakarta, Indonesia on 8 May. Gathering artists, human rights activists and media professionals, the event highlighted the need to uphold all rights, including...
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The launch of the Mongolian language version of UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report “Re|Shaping Cultural Policies” summary was held on 11 May in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The event, gathering over 100 participants, was organized by the UNESCO Beijing office in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports and the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC) in the...
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