On the occasion of their last meeting in Paris, on October 23rd 2009, the European coalitions for cultural diversity have issued a set of Resolutions calling for concrete actions for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention so as to insure the protection and promotion of culture on national as well as international levels. They alert all States parties to the UNESCO Convention, as well as the countries which have not ratified it yet, on the evolution of international trade negotiations which may prove be detrimental to the cultural sectors.
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A year after the Swiss ratification of the UNESCO Convention, the Swiss Committee for UNESCO and the Swiss coalition for cultural diversity  presented in Bern a catalogue of proposals established by sixty experts in the fields of music, cinema, visual arts and cultural heritage, theatre and dance, education, medias, international cooperation.

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The French coalition for cultural diversity welcomed the participants to the World Forum “Cultural diversity 2030”, organised by the German Commission for UNESCO on the eve of the UNESCO’s Conference of Parties. Some forty young professionals and future decision makers from all over the world came to participate in this awareness program and receive training on the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expression and its implementation.

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