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A sub-regional workshop on the Convention for the Safeguarding of
the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) - www.unesco.org/culture/ich
- will take place in Bamako (Mali) from 22 to 23 April 2008. It follows
the sub-regional meetings organized by UNESCO in November and December
2006 in Douala (Cameroon) and Dakar (Senegal).
Considering the growing interest for the Convention, the rapid
development of its implementation and the fact that many States
Parties to the Convention have already started preparing nomination
files for inscription on the Lists of Intangible Heritage, it was
considered timely to organize a workshop whose objective is to promote
the Convention among African Non-States Parties, or in which the
ratification process is underway, and to put emphasis on the various
aspects of the implementation of this normative instrument.
Among others, the following themes will be debated:
- the objectives of the 2003 Convention
- the rights and obligations of States Parties to the Convention
- the mechanisms of the Convention
- inventorying intangible cultural heritage
- the safeguarding measures of the intangible cultural heritage
- the inscription of elements of the intangible cultural heritage
on the Lists
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