UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity: UNESCO Culture Sector

UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity

Adopted by the 31st session of the UNESCO General Conference, Paris, 2 November 2001.

This is a legal instrument, which recognizes, for the first time, cultural diversity as a "common heritage of humanity" and considers its safeguarding to be a concrete and ethical imperative, inseparable from respect of human dignity.

Year of approval	2001
	UNESCO

Link to Official Text	http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127161e.pdf#page=9