General Objectives To The 2005 Convention
The main objective for the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions. The Convention highlights the fact that cultural creativity has been placed upon all of humanity and that aside from economical gains, creative diversity reaps plenty of cultural and social advantages. States must also promote "openness to other cultures of the world". Protective measures are also included in the Convention and international cooperation is ecouraged in times of need. This Convention works to strengthen economic growth and cultural acceptance.
Additional objectives are as follows:
- To reaffirm the sovereign rights of States to adopt cultural policies while ensuring the free movement of ideas and works.
- To recognize the distinct nature of cultural goods and services as vehicles of values, identity and meaning.
- To define a new framework for international cultural cooperation, the keystone of the Convention
- To create the conditions for cultures to flourish and freely interact in a mutually beneficial manner
- To endeavor to support cooperation for sustainable development and poverty reduction, via assistance from the International Fund for Cultural Diversity.
- To ensure that civil society plays a major role in the implementation of the Convention.
- To "strengthen international cooperation and solidarity with a view to favouring the cultural expressions of all countries, in particular those whose cultural goods and services suffer from lack of access to the means of creation, production and dissemination at the national and international level."
The Convention also affirms that "Cultural diversity can be protected and promoted only if human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, information and communication, as well as the ability of invididuals to choose cultural expresions, are guaranteed." in a manner against a cultural relativism that may undermine universality of human rights.
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