CULTURE Newsletter
Promotion and sale of handicrafts from Central Asia© C.Beauregard/UNESCO
Culture and Development in the framework of the UNDP/Spain MDG Fund
In the framework of the Spanish Master Plan for International Cooperation, Spain has decided to establish a Spanish Millennium Development Goals Fund to strengthen the UN reform process.
- Achieving the Millennium Goals UNESCO’s lead on the thematic window on culture and development
- UNDP/Spain Achievement Fund official website : Thematic window on culture and development
- Approved Joint Programmes A country-driven process
- 18 projects selected under the UNDP/Spain MDG Achievement Fund: In the area of "Culture and Development"
- UNESCO and UN Reform: UN agencies operating in concert
From 28-09-2008 to 02-10-2008 (Santa Fe - United States of America)
Santa Fe Creative Tourism Conference 2008 More
From 29-09-2008 to 16-10-2008 (Paris - France)
Between heaven and earth: Mont-Saint-Michel and sacred mountains of the world More
From 30-09-2008 to 02-10-2008 (Sintra - Portugal)
Second World International Conference of the Alliance of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes More
From 04-10-2008 to 08-10-2008 (Isfahan - Iran (Islamic Republic of))
UNESCO Award of Excellence for Handicrafts in the West-Central Asia Region More
From 06-10-2008 to 10-10-2008 (Cartagena de Indias - Colombia)
IX Encounter for the promotion and diffusion of the Intangible Heritage of Iberoamerican Countries More
From 06-10-2008 to 17-10-2008 (Paris - France)
“The Transatlantic Slavery Gallery” Exhibition More
From 11-10-2008 to 11-10-2008 (Paris - France)
Round Table on “Auroville – An Emerging World: Its Future Horizons” More
From 13-10-2008 to 30-10-2008 (Paris - France)
"Life and Peace" by Japanese Painter Kenji Yoshida More
From 14-10-2008 to 19-10-2008 (Cairns - Australia)
Pacific Islands World Heritage Workshop More
From 16-10-2008 to 17-10-2008 (Le Havre - France)
French World Heritage Sites’ Annual Meeting More
From 20-10-2008 to 26-10-2008 (Limassol - Cyprus)
VSMM, 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: Digital Heritage 2.0 More
From 22-10-2008 to 22-10-2008 (Paris - France)
Award Ceremony: UNESCO-Association Vocations Patrimoine Fellowships More
From 23-10-2008 to 26-10-2008 (Montevideo - Uruguay)
5th Latin American Forum on “Memory and Identity” More
- The Creative Economy Report (UNCTAD, UNDP, UNESCO, WIPO and ITC) (pdf)
- World Summit Outcome 2005 (pdf)
- United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2000 (pdf)
- The Master Plan for Spanish cooperation 2005-2008 (pdf)
- Culture Counts: Towards New Strategies for Culture in Sustainable Development (pdf)
- The Value of Culture : Position Paper for the Forum Development and Culture (Inter-American Development Bank/UNESCO, pdf)
- Culture et tourisme, éléments du développement durable (speech of Mrs Françoise Rivière, Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO, pdf, in French)