Article 14: Cooperation for Development

The importance of culture in development strategies was underscored with the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (UDCD) by the UNESCO General Conference on Cultural Diversity in November 2001 and endorsed by the United Nations Gene

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This comment is written in a personal capacity and reflects personal views which are not necessarily the official views of the UNCTAD Secretariat or its Member States.

S. von Schorlemer and P.-T. Stoll (eds.), The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-25995-1_16, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

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Part IV.

Rights and Obligations of Parties

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drafting History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Drafts of International Instruments on the Protection of Cultural Diversity by Other Organizations (SAGIT, INCD, INCP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 The UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 First Stage of Negotiations within UNESCO: The Meetings of the Independent Experts (December 2003 to May 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 The Expert Draft (July 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Second Stage of Negotiations within UNESCO: The Negotiations of Intergovernmental Experts (September 2004 to June 2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Adoption at the UNESCO 33rd General Conference (October 2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Wording of Article 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Practical Implications of Article 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 A Concrete Case of Cooperation for Development Embodying the Cultural Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Interactions of the CCD with Other Multilateral Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Challenges Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The importance of culture in development strategies was underscored with the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (UDCD) by the UNESCO General Conference on Cultural Diversity in November 2001 and endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2002. Article 6 UDCD stated that, “Freedom of expression, media pluralism, multilingualism, equal access to art and to scientific and technological knowledge, including in digital form, and the possibili