Ratification
by Djibouti of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage (Paris, 17 October 2003)
On 30 August 2007, Djibouti deposited with the Director-General
its instrument of ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding
of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In accordance with the terms
of its Article 34, the aforementioned Convention will enter into
force with respect to Djibouti three months after the date of the
deposit of its instrument, that is to say on 30 November 2007.
UNESCO. Office of International Standards
and Legal Affairs. France. Publicated: 11-09-2007
First
inscriptions on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage lists
to take place in September 2009
The first inscriptions on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural
Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and on the Organization’s
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
will take place in September 2009, according to the decision of
the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible
Heritage whose 24 members ended their meeting in Tokyo today.
UNESCO. Press Release Nº 2007-106.
France. Publicated: 07-09-2007 |
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Tell
me the living heritage
UNESCO has widely contributed to the acknolowledgement of the value
and the interest of which today is called living heritage or immaterial
heritage: oral traditions and expressions, entertainment arts, social
conducts and empirical rites, knowledge related to the nature and
the universe, know-how linked to craftmanship. Thanks to this book
young people will be interested in practices that are at the same
time linking points between the past and the present. They will
include its sense and, upon being aware of his fragility, they will
learn to respect them.
UNESCO. Publishing. Series Discovering
the World. Publicated: 07-09-2007 |
Second
ordinary meeting of the Committee for the conservation of immaterial
heritage
The Director-General of UNESCO, Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, inaugurated
in Tokyo, on September 3, the second session of the intergovernmental
Committee for the safeguard of immaterial cultural heritage, next
to Mr. Bunmei Ibuki, Minister of education, culture, sports, science
and technology of Japan, Mr. Itsunori Onodera, Vice-minister of
foreign affairs of Japan, Mr. Mohammed Bedjaoui, former Minister
of foreign affairs of Algeria and President of the general Assembly
of the participant States in the Convention, as well as Mr. Musa
Bin Jaafar Bin Hassan, President of the general Conference of UNESCO.
UNESCO. Office of the Spokeswoman. Flash
Info N° 109-2007. France. Publication: 03-09-2007
The
Intangible Heritage Messenger No 7 August 2007
The Intangible Cultural Heritage Section continues to concentrate
on serving the organs of the 2003 Convention: after the ordinary
(June) and extraordinary (early November) sessions of the General
Assembly of the States Parties, the year 2006 ended with the first
ordinary session of the Convention’s Intergovernmental Committee
(mid-November).
Following the extraordinary session of the Committee in Chengdu
at the end of May 2007, hosted with exemplary efficiency by the
Chinese authorities, the Committee will meet again, for its second
ordinary session (3–7 September) in Tokyo, at the invitation
of the Japanese Government. This issue of the Messenger contains
detailed reports of the Chengdu meeting.
UNESCO. Culture. Intangible Heritage. France.
Publicated: 27-08-2007
Safeguarding
Albanian Folk Iso-Polyphony, a UNESCO masterpiece of the Oral and
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”
UNESCO-BRESCE is implementing the Project entitled “Safeguarding
of Albanian Folk Iso-Polyphony”. This cultural expression
was proclaimed Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of
Humanity by UNESCO in 2005. This project is financed under the UNESCO/Japan
Funds-in-Trust for the Preservation and Promotion of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage.
UNESCO. Culture. Intangible Heritage. France.
Publicated: 27-08-2007 |
