Culture

UNESCO’s Culture sector encourages inter-cultural dialogue and promotes cultural pluralism within the organization. Protecting and safeguarding the world’s cultural and natural heritage and supporting creativity and dynamic cultural sectors are fundamental to addressing the challenges of our time, from climate change to poverty, inequality, the digital divide, and ever more complex emergencies and conflicts.

The major themes for Culture are:

  • Culture and Development
  • World Heritage
  • Intangible Heritage
  • Armed Conflict and Heritage
  • Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property Restitution of Cultural Property
  • Underwater Cultural Heritage Endangered Languages Creativity
  • Dialogue
  • Normative Action Emergency Situations (UNESCO)

Curaçao Culture Programme

In Curaçao the culture programmes being implemented are the Convention on the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and the World Heritage (WH). Attention is also being placed on the Underwater Cultural Heritage by the National Anthropological Archaeological Memory Management (NAAM).

Intangible Cultural Heritage

In 2003, UNESCO created the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which was ratified in 2012 by The Kingdom of the Netherlands and co-ratified in 2016 by Curaçao.

World Heritage

In 1985 Mr Frank Elstak, former Secretary General of the Netherlands Antilles National Commission for UNESCO, was asked to urgently work on encouraging the Dutch Government to ratify the UNESCO Convention on World Heritage.

Accreditation of Non-Governmental Organizations

Curaçao has two Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) accredited to provide advisory services to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee:

National Archaeological-Anthropological Memory Management Foundation

Accredited in 2012

Fundashon Museo Tula

Accredited in 2020