News and Events
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UNESCO
launches Forgotten Slaves programme
23 Apr 2004 - The programme, implemented by the French Marine
Archaeology Group (GRAN) with UNESCO support, was inspired by the wreck of
the slave ship l’Utile off the shores of the Tromelin Island in the Indian
Ocean in 1761.
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Award
ceremony of the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Prize
27 Apr 2004 - The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, awarded
to Cambodia and Egypt the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Prize for the
preservation and promotion of cultural spaces or forms of folk or
traditional cultural expression proclaimed "masterpieces of the oral
and intangible heritage of humanity”.
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Workshop
for Journalists on the World Heritage Convention
Emei Mountain, China
29 Apr 2004 - 30 Apr 2004 In anticipation of the 28th Session of
the World Heritage Committee , this meeting is being organized jointly by
the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO’s Beijing Office at
the Emei Mountain, World Heritage Site in Sichuan Province (China), with
the support of the Chinese State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
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Cultural
Diversity and Globalization. The Arab-Japanese Experience: a Cross-Regional
Dialogue
UNESCO Headquarters, Room XII
06 May 2004 - 07 May 2004 An international panel of experts will
participate in this Symposium, which will be the occasion for the Arab
world and Japan to foster co-operation and exchange views on the process of
modernization and preservation of cultural diversity in a globalized
world.
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Anti-piracy
training for trainers
Sofia, Bulgaria
17 May 2004 - 20 May 2004 UNESCO, in the framework of its Global
Alliance for cultural diversity, and in collaboration with the Bulgarian
National Commission for UNESCO, the Bulgarian stakeholders in the field of
copyright and the international anti-piracy associations in the music and
motion picture sectors, organizes an ANTI-PIRACY TRAINING FOR TRAINERS
seminar.
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