What would a convention on cultural diversity do?
The convention would re-affirm the right of states to take measures to preserve and promote cultural diversity, provide a basis for enhanced international cooperation in exercising those rights and, through the creation of obligations between signatories, enhance the transparency of cultural policies, their objectives and their development. The Convention would also serve as a point of reference for other international organizations, including those dealing with international trade negotiations. It would highlight the policy space governments’ need to preserve and promote cultural diversity through the elaboration of rights and obligations, with binding provisions for measures with respect to the creation, production, distribution, communication, exhibition, and sale of cultural content. It could thus contribute to coherence between the objectives of preserving and promoting cultural diversity and the on-going processes of trade liberalization. In doing so, the Convention would fill th
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- Would adopting a Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Content and Artistic Expression give states too much discretion in defending cultural diversity?
- Would a Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Content and Artistic Expression restrict the movement of cultural products between countries?
- Could the future UNESCO convention on cultural diversity jeopardize freedom of expression?
