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1 December 2004
CULTURE AND AIDS

AIDS spares no one. UNESCO and its United Nations partners are adapting their control resources, through education and prevention, to the various cultural contexts. If it is to have any effect, the fight against the worldwide AIDS pandemic has to start out from people’s customs, traditions, beliefs, values and ways of life.


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Prevention and education: The cultural approach
Artists pass on the message: Persuade through the theatre
Sensitizing youngsters: Hip Hop helps prevention
Living with HIV/AIDS: “Let’s discuss it in pictures”
Women Migrants and HIV/AIDS in the World:  An Anthropological Approach
Reading:  2004 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
On the Radio (MP3 format, in French):  Message from C. Owen Jones, Goodwill Ambassador
 
News and Events

Preservation of the Bamiyan Site in Afghanistan Tokyo, Japan
18 12 2004 - 20 12 2004  Third Expert Working Group, organized by UNESCO and the National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. 
Promotion of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Kazan, Russian Federation
13 12 2004 - 15 12 2004  This is the fifth Regional meeting of a series of eight organized by UNESCO in different regions of the world.
Nordic World Heritage Foundation Board Paris, France
10 12 2004 A meeting will take place in Paris to coincide with the World Heritage Committee’s Extraordinary Session.
Korean Fantasy Unesco Headquarters, Paris, France
09 Dec 2004 - This performance of traditional Korean dance and music by 80 artists, organized by the Delegation of Korea and the Culture Sector’s Intangible Heritage Section, will waft the spectactor to the Land of Peaceful Morn. 
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict Phnom Penh, Cambodia
06 12 2004 - 08 12 2004  A joint UNESCO-ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) Expert Meeting, under the high auspices of the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. 
Closing of the 2004 International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
03 12 2004 - 05 12 2004  The close of this Year will be marked by several events. 
UNESCO and Global Business Coalition hold business Forum on HIV/AIDS on World Aids Day Paris, France
01 12 2004 - Representatives of several of the world’s leading multinational corporations came together to discuss HIV/AIDS education and prevention programmes implemented by business. 
International Commission for Peace
30 11 2004 - UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura opened the first meeting of the International Commission for Peace focusing on the contribution of Dialogue among Civilizations.
New edition of the Index Translationum
29 11 2004 - This list of books translated in the world features 45 000 new references from Belarus, Brasil, Cuba, Danemark, Kuweit, Spain, Moldavia, Nigeria, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Rumania and Thailand.
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Cultural Heritage in South-East Europe: Kosovo (document) 
2005 World Heritage Desk Diary 

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