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UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity - 2001 

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 for human dignity.

Year of approval 2001
Link to Official Text http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127160m.pdf

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