Culture and Development

A/RES/55/192No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94cCultural development, published in 2001.

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4 versions · 2001–2012

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2001A/RES/55/192Culture and development

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What subjects does this mandate have?

12 topics

Capacity Building Cultural Development Cultural Heritage Cultural Policy Cultural Property Protection Cultural Property Restitution Declarations Languages Poverty Mitigation Programme Implementation Sustainable Development Technical Cooperation

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;

Invites all Member States, intergovernmental bodies, organizations of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations:

To ensure, in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, continuous and effective implementation of the Action Plan on Cultural Policies for Development;1

To intensify further their efforts to integrate cultural factors into their development programmes and projects, so as to ensure sustainable development that fully respects cultural diversity;

To implement fully the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 1999;

To commit themselves to promoting the dialogue among civilizations as an essential process for human development and mutual understanding and for strengthening international cooperation;

To analyse the connection between culture and development and the elimination of poverty in the context of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006), as recommended in the Action Plan;

To safeguard cultural and linguistic diversity in the context of globalization and to support action by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in this regard;

Encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its work to promote a greater awareness of the crucial relationship between culture and development;

Also encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in conjunction, as appropriate, with other relevant United Nations bodies and multilateral development institutions, to continue to provide support, upon request, to developing countries, in particular in national capacity-building, for the implementation of international cultural conventions, including conservation of heritage and protection of cultural property, and for the restitution of cultural property, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 54/190 of 17 December 1999, as well as support and opportunities for the promotion and enhancement of cultural goods and services and of cultural tourism respectful of the integrity of cultural and natural heritage;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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