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.
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.
Organised on 18th may 2009 by the CNC on the occasion of the 62nd International Film Festival in Cannes, this debate was lead by Christine Albanel, French minister of Culture and Communication ; Anne-Marie Idrac, Secretary of State – External Trade ; Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Director of the ICAA (Spain) ; Jim Mc Kee, General Secretary of the International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (Canada) ; Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, Professor at the University Paris 1 and Pascal Rogard, President of the French Coalition for Cultural Diversity.
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