[Ecommerce] English and French texts of UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

[Manon Ress]

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  English (unofficial, compiled by the British delegation) and French
June texts of the convention

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UNESCO convention on cultural diversity


Government delegates from over 180 countries have negotiated the
final text of the proposed Convention on Cultural Diversity (CCD), to
be submitted to the UNESCO General Assembly in the fall of 2005. The
CCD (formally known as the Convention on the Protection and Promotion
of the Diversity of Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions) was
initially meant to be an international legal agreement to implement
the principle that culture cannot be reduced to a commodity.
Concretely, it was meant to allow each country to exclude its
cultural policies, including 'audiovisual services' - otherwise known
as media - from 'free trade' deals like the WTO.

During the negotiations, progressive NGO networks like the
International Network on Cultural Diversity and the campaign for
Communication Rights in the Information Society called for broad
civil society support for the CCD, but warned that it must not be
subordinated to the WTO and must be written to support cultural and
media diversity inside countries, not only between them. In addition,
they called for the elimination of language supporting the current
extremist copyright regime, or for balance by references to the
importance of the public domain, fair use, and the creative commons.

Civil society organizations are currently analyzing the final text
and deciding whether it should be supported, supported only with
certain amendments, or opposed.

Key Documents:
NEW: Final Text of the convention, to be submitted to UNESCO General
Assembly. [en | fr]
Comments by the CRIS campaign [ en | es | fr]
Comments by the INCD [word]
UNESCO overview of the Convention process
Daily reports from the II session of the intergovernmental meeting
[Day: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10| 11| 12 ]
US government: April 15 Briefing by the US State Department on their
view of the UNESCO convention [download .rtf]
Reports from the III (final) session of the intergovernmental
meeting: UNESCO report | INCD
Posted on July 27, 2005 | Filed Under: Bilateral FTAs | CAFTA |
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