Agreed in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unite 193 Governments with the shared aim of leaving both our planet and societies on a sustainable footing for future generations. No poverty, clean energy,...
The Third International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road (IYF3) with the theme “Youth Creativity and Innovation in the Age of Media Arts” was held in Changsha and Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, from 31 March...
ICHCAP recently published new translations of two brochures in the kit of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage so States Party can better understand ICH from a global perspective. The new translations are in Bengali,...
Brochures on the ICH policies of UNESCO have been published in additional languages as part of an ICHCAP-supported project. The brochures, “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development” and “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Gender,” have been recently translated into seven languages—Bhutani,...
ICHCAP is pleased to invite NGOs to participate in the 2018 Asia-Pacific ICH NGO Conference: ICH NGOs toward Sustainable Development of Communities to be held from 6 to 8 November 2018 in Hue, Vietnam, in collaboration with the Hue Monuments...
The second International Conference on Cultural Statistics and Creative Economy will be held in Manila, Philippines, on second or third week of October. The conference is being organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to provide...
The cultural and creative industry provides livelihood for some 3 to 11 percent of the workforce in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a newly released UNESCO Institute for Statistics database of internationally comparable cultural employment statistics, featuring data for the...
An 13 October, after the fifth round of voting, the fifty-eight members of UNESCO’s Executive Board nominated former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay as the new UNESCO Director-General. The decision surfaced a day after the United States and Israel had...
The 2016 Asia-Pacific ICH NGO Conference is going to be held from 3 to 5 November in Jeonju, Republic of Korea, under the theme Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. In this conference, Ms. Beatrice Kaldun, Head...
