Protection+of+Cultural+Traditions+and+Heritages

Topic: Protection of Cultural Traditions and Heritages Topic: Protection of Cultural Traditions and Heritages The protection of cultural traditions and heritages is a serious problem to all the countries over the world. Cultural traditions and heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations and more information of cultural heritages is on the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage. Its obvious that the protection of cultural traditions and heritages is essential and those countries that don’t care about the protection of cultural heritages will be condemned from the society and pressure groups.

On October 4 2008 QUÉBEC DECLARATION ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE SPIRIT OF PLACE http://www.international.icomos.org/quebec2008/quebec_declaration/pdf/GA16_Quebec_Declaration_Final_EN.pdf http://www.international.icomos.org/home.htm

ICOMOS is now the only non-governmental institution that deals with the world’s cultural heritages. They hold meetings annually to discuss about the protection of cultural heritages and those assembly was very successful. In October 2008 they held a 16th assembly in Quebec and came out with a new resolution. It states that it is essential to protect both tangible and intangible heritage, which is regarded as an innovative and efficient manner of ensuring sustainable and social development throughout the world. And, it is also important to inform everybody about the “cultural route”, that is, to make more people know about the intangible heritage, such as the Silk Road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road) or other road(or route) that can indicate a special period in history or as a milestone in history. Protecting cultural heritages is very important to all countries, this is because cultural heritages can not only be treated as symbols of country’s culture but it is also a kind of spiritual civilization, we should try our best to protect cultural heritages and make more people to participate. The goal of my journal will be to determine if the United Nations has discussed this issue and passed any resolutions. And I will also try to find the influences on those countries that did not take care on protecting their cultural heritages in order to convince people the importance of cultural heritages’ protection.

UN has discovered the importance of protecting cultural heritages several years ago. There is a special organization in UN that called UNESCO has the main objective of contributing to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations. This UNESCO have developed a complete system of protecting those cultural heritages. They work frequently on heritages’ protecting issues and were very successful. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34323&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html And in October 17th to November 21st 1972 UN had developed the document ‘Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage’ in Paris. This is enough to show how UN thinks of protecting heritages.

Even though UN has a deep concern on protecting cultural traditions and heritages, I still think protecting heritages should be discussed in this MUN meeting since this is essential for the development of the world’s culture and it is important for all human beings. We should discuss on whether protecting cultural heritages is important for those developing countries and how we achieve our objectives if we want to protect those cultural heritages. This topic will create a good and meaningful debate in this year’s MUN conference.