“I do not want my house to be walled in on all
sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the
cultures of all lands to be blown about my house
as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown
off my feet by any.”

Mahatma Gandhi

UNESCO enshrined the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions in international law on October 20, 2005 when it adopted the Convention that France had long wanted.

Cultural Diversity in Actions - (PDF, 381.4 ko)

Graphic design and printing : La Documentation Française, 2006