Launch Ceremony Re | Shaping Cultural Policies: A Decade Promoting the Diversity of Cultural Expressions for Development
Wednesday 16 December 2015, UNESCO Headquarters, 10h00-13h00, Room II
This first Global Report was conceived as a tool to monitor the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, now ratified by 141 Parties, and to facilitate information sharing on the many ways in which the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions is being pursued around the world.
The Report tracks progress on the following Four Goals related to the Convention:
The Report presents evidence on the implementation of these goals, with a proposed set of indicators to monitor change and progress over time. Based on the quadrennial periodic reports submitted so far by Parties, and other sources, it is the first effort to take stock and share information on the challenges encountered. In particular, the Report looks at emerging policy areas, such as digital, public service media, preferential treatment as well as gender and artistic freedom. It investigates how cultural policies have been re-shaped as a result of efforts to implement the Convention.
KEY QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE
• What has been the policy impact of the Convention and how have cultural policies been re- shaped as a result? • What kind of policies on preferential treatment can be supported to facilitate the mobility of artists and to achieve a better balance in the international flow of cultural goods and services? • How can Parties to the Convention improve their legislation and practices with regards to artistic freedom, the social and economic rights of artists, and for female professionals in the cultural sector? • As a global policy framework for culture, how can the 2005 Convention help to implement the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda?
PROGRAMME
10h-10h10: Welcome by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
Video message by Youssou N’Dour, International Artist
10h10-11h15: High-level panel discussion
• Irina BOKOVA, Director-General of UNESCO • Karima BENNOUNE, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights • Per Olsson FRIDH, State Secretary to the Minister of Culture and Democracy of Sweden • Pascal LAMY, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Questions and Answers
11h15-13h00: Panel discussion with authors of the Report
• Mike van GRAAN, Executive Director, African Arts Institute (South Africa) • Yudhishthir Raj ISAR, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The American University of Paris, Principal editor of the Global Report Reshaping cultural policies (France) • Ammu JOSEPH, journalist, media watcher (India) • Nina OBULJEN KORŽINEK, Research Associate, Institute for Development and International Relations (Croatia) • Ole REITOV, Executive Director, Freemuse (Denmark)
Questions and Answers
The panels will be moderated by: Anne BAGAMERY, Senior Editor, International New York Times
The 2015 Global Report is available at http://en.unesco.org/creativity/
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This publication was supported by Sweden
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON PANELISTS & EXPERTS
High-level panel:
• Karima Bennoune is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law, and former Amnesty International Legal Advisor (1995-1999). Her book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism, won the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In October 2015, she was appointed UN Special Rapporteur for Cultural Rights. • Per Olsson Fridh is State Secretary to the Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke. He has served at the Swedish Centre for International Youth Exchange, the National Council of Swedish Youth Organisations, the Education, Youth and Culture Council, Stockholm City and at CISV International (formerly Children’s International Summer Villages). Further, Olsson Fridh served at the Swedish delegation to the UN and in the European Commission Expert Group on the Mobility of Young Volunteers. • Pascal Lamy is a French political consultant. He was European Commissioner for Trade (1999- 2004) and the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (2005-2013). He is currently the Honorary President of the Paris-based think tank, Notre Europe, and Chief Coordinator of the Bidding for 2025 World Expo of France.
Panel of experts
• Mike van Graan, Executive Director, African Arts Institute (South Africa) • Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The American University of Paris, Principal editor of the Global Report Reshaping cultural policies (France) • Ammu Joseph, journalist, media watcher (India) • Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Research Associate, Institute for Development and International relations (Croatia) • Ole Reitov, Executive Director, Freemuse (Denmark)
Other authors present for the debate:
Helmut K. Anheier, Dean, Hertie Schoool of Governance (Germany); Lydia Deloumeaux, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO); Véronique Guévremont, Professor of International Law, University Laval (Canada); Carl-Johan Kleberg, Professor and former Deputy Director of the Swedish Arts Council (Sweden); Octavio Kulesz, Publishing director of Editorial Teseo (Argentina); Christine M. Merkel, Head of Division for Culture, Communication and Memory of the World (Germany); Mikael Schultz, Head of International Coordination, Ministry of Culture (Sweden).