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In 2003, UNESCO drafted the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which provides an international framework, source of funding, and strategic overview for the further identification and protection of these masterpieces and other intangible cultural heritages. The convention went into force in 2006 and has since ...
Initially the day (commonly called the Access to Information Day) was designated by the UNESCO General Conference. It was inaugurated in November 2015 and was first held on 28 September 2016. The day had been recognised as International Right to Know Day since 2002 and was developed by international civil society advocates beginning in 2012.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO / j uː ˈ n ɛ s k oʊ /) [2] [a] is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage [4] defines the intangible cultural heritage as the practices, representations, expressions, as well as the knowledge and skills (including instruments, objects, artifacts, cultural spaces), that communities, groups, and, in some cases, individuals, recognize as part of their cultural heritage.
The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) 2005–2014 was an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiative of the United Nations.The Decade was delivered by UNESCO as lead agency, and gave rise to Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) networks, and the GUPES universities' partnership.
Ritual journeys in La Paz during Alasita: 2017 [104] The festival of the Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder in the city of La Paz: 2019 [105] Grand Festival of Tarija 2021 [106] Ch'utillos, the Festival of San Bartolomé and San Ignacio de Loyola, the meeting of cultures in Potosí 2023 [107] Bosnia and Herzegovina: Zmijanje ...
4 March - World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development [9] 8 March - International Women’s Day [10] 11 March - International Day for Digital Learning [11]; 14 March - International Day of Mathematics [12]
The UNESCO General Conference adopted their recommendations in the fall of 1962 and the French Government provided a building to house this new institution. [2] Philip Hall Coombs who had been the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Kennedy administration , was appointed as its first director in 1963.