ICOMOS, ICCROM and IUCN with ICOMOS Norway: “Our Common Dignity – Rights-Based Approaches”

The Advisory Bodies on 6 July present reports and recommendations on World Heritage and Rights during the World Heritage Committee Meeting in Krakow, Poland, 2-16 juli 2017:

World Heritage and Human Rights: Global recommendations and Next Steps?

Date Thursday 6 July, 2017
Time 14:10-15:00
Location Chamber Hall, 3rd floor

Our Common Dignity: Rights-Based Approaches in World Heritage
Human rights are today integral to World Heritage policy. Yet, how do we move from policy to practice? Join Advisory Bodies presentation of key lessons and discussion of follow-up recommendations.

• PROGRAMME:
Facilitator – Kristal Buckley, Deakin University

14:10 Introduction
“Our Common Dignity”
Bente Mathisen, Icomos Norway
Ingunn Kvisterøy, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Norway

14:15 Recommendations
Report Recommendations: Taking stock and looking forward.
Peter Bille Larsen, University of Lucerne

14:25 Perspectives and next steps Advisory Bodies representative perspectives
– ICCROM, ICOMOS, IUCN
Mechtild Rössler, UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Leburu Molatedi Andrias, IPACC

14:45 Views and discussion

• DOWNLOAD:
Advisory Bodies Joint Report
Case Studies by ICOMOS Norway and Partners
Side Event Flyer

ICOMOS Norge inviterer til fagdag 21. september om «Verdensarv og menneskerettigheter».

Vi legger frem resultat av 10 års arbeid med «Our-Common Dignity» prosjektet.
ICOMOS Norges prosjektleder Amund Sinding-Larsen vil være hovedinnleder

Vi håper gruppearbeid under fagdagen vil gi gode innspill til videre oppfølging.

Vedlagt: foreløpig program. Mer opplysninger følger.
Program Fagdag: Verdensarv og menneskerettigheter

ICOMOS South Africa has invited representatives from 17 African countries to be part of a master level pilot course in human rights and cultural heritage. The training, lead by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights University of Oslo, will be at Ditsong Museum, Pretoria from 13 to 17 March 2017.

Broadly, the course will cover:
1. General introduction to the international human rights system, including its institutions and mechanisms;
2. Specific introduction to relevant cultural rights and texts, as well as the UN and UNESCO institutional framework; and
3. Human rights-based approach planning tools for heritage management.

Partners for the pilot training are ICOMOS South Africa, ICOMOS Norway, the African World Heritage Fund, the South African National Heritage Council, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Ditsong Museum, Pretoria. For further information, you may contact ctht(at)heritage.org.za

Our Common Dignity: Towards Rights-Based World Heritage Management was started in 2007 by ICOMOS Norway. From a national focus the initiative was expanded into international collaboration between ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN (AB) in 2011 – in close contact and dialogue also with the World Heritage Centre.

The training is a result of the collaboration between the “heritage world” and the “human rights world”. The first Pilot Training Course in the complex topic of Human Rights and Heritage Management was in Oslo in 2016, and is being followed by training in India and South Africa.