CULTURE
- Cultural Diversity
- World Heritage
- Intangible Heritage
- Underwater Heritage
- Movable Heritage and Museums
- Creativity
- Dialogue
- Normative Action
- Emergency Situations
Themes
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Poster of the Year
Languages: spaces of interaction and rapprochement
The International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures is an invitation to talk. Multilingualism is essential to the conversation that leads to mutual understanding. Language learning and translation are therefore vital to the unity of humankind. Such are the major thrusts of the 11th International Mother Language Day. A printed version of the updated UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is underway. A legacy of our cultural diversity, languages give access to the “minds of men” in which the “defences of peace must be constructed”.
- Message of Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO:
- International Symposium on 22-23 February:
- Languages and Multilingualism:
- 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures:
- UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger: Safeguarding linguistic diversity
- Intellectual Watch:
- Toward a New Humanism:
- For a reconciled universal:
- Pathways of Thought:
on the occasion of International Mother Language Day
Translation and Cultural Mediation
Pillars of Cultural Diversity
Dialogue, understanding and cooperation
Detail from The Creation of Adam, Michel-Ange, Sixtine Chapel © UNESCO
UNESCO: a laboratory of ideas on cultural issues
UNESCO is in a unique position to bring worldwide expertise to bear on the configurations reshaping our ways of relating to one another, our identities and our communities, and their ethical and normative implications. Its natural partners in this endeavour are scholars involved in every field of knowledge. At the helm, the humanities: keys to the messages lying within cultural creations.
A probe into the heart of our cultural conceptions
Arts and humanities today
The message of Tagore, Neruda and Césaire
New languages, new societies