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The UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions – A first step towards its implementation in Switzerland
The UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions – A first step towards its implementation in Switzerland
Encourage creation, support production, stimulate dissemination and promote access to cultural expressions of the most diverse kinds are the objectives of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, adopted in Paris in October 2005.
It is the ambition of the Swiss Coalition for Cultural Diversity and the Swiss Commission for UNESCO to ensure the achievement of these objectives in our country.
On the initiative of the Coalition and the Commission, civil society has supported the Swiss authorities in the international negotiation of the UNESCO Convention. Civil society then actively participated in the process that led to the Convention's ratification by Switzerland. With this first report, it is now involved in the implementation of the Convention, as it will also be involved in the implementation of the measures proposed. (See the preface of the report).
The Report
This report was compiled together by the Swiss Commission for UNESCO and the Swiss Coalition for Cultural Diversity, mainly for Swiss purposes. The purpose of this English version is to show an example of how civil society can contribute to the implementation of the UNESCO Convention of 2005, notably by consulting professionals in culture on possible cultural policy measures at national level for the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions.
These proposals are the result of a joint reflection carried out by some sixty players active in the fields of culture, communication, education, cooperation and the economy, all concerned to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions in Switzerland and worldwide. They do not claim to reflect the entire scope of Swiss culture or to provide answers to all current and future challenges. They are not an end in itself, but want to be the launching pad for a longer-term implementation process.
As the analyses and recommendations of the eight groups of experts were sometimes considerable, some texts had to be rewritten and shortened. The integral studies sector by sector are available as PDFs (only in their original version: French or German) on this website.
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