'Development divorced from its human terms or cultural context is growth without a soul. Economic development in its full flowering is part of a people’s culture.' The World Commission was a very high level body, and this 1998 report from UNESCO has been very influential.

'This case study describes a two-year pilot project to engage local churches in reflecting on gender issues in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. The programme worked with local faith-based organisations and took a 'whole-life' approach, discussing gender inequality and HIV within the wider context of relationships, life skills and Christian life. A variety of interventions were used, including workshops for couples to develop relationship and parenting skills, and training sessions to discuss issues wi more...

In Natya Shastra, one of the world’s oldest and the most outstanding treaties on drama, the Indian saga Bharat Muni had define Indian drama as: “Of the actions and conduct of people, rich in various emotions, depicting different situations. This relates to action of men good, bad and different and gives courage, amusement, happiness, and advice to all of them”. This sublime and admirable theory has since long served as the keystone of drama in India, which had served as the nucleus of all more...

'Cultural endowments such as traditional architecture, unique streetscapes, and historic sites are increasingly recognized as important economic resources in both developed and developing countries. Cities are often an important focal point for development based on these resources because they provide concentrations of heritage assets, infrastructure services, private sector activity,
and human resources. Improving the conservation and management of urban heritage is not only important for pres more...

'Eurominority, the website of stateless nations and minority peoples in Europe, has an interactive map featuring Europe’s ethnic, national, linguistic, and cultural minorities.'

'Beirut World Book Capital 2009 has three objectives. Publishers and booksellers are keen on the first objective which deals with the strengthening of the book industry in Lebanon, with special focus on youth literature. Schools, for their part, are rallying around the second objective which aims at promoting reading and the taste for reading. Finally, embassies are interested in the third objective, namely, the adoption of a diversified approach to culture, by inviting writers from their countr more...

'Piracy constitutes a disregard for legal rights and obligations towards the intellectual creators upon which the society itself is guided for future aspiration and that is why respect for law and order in an important sector of human society is seriously undermined by the activities of pirates. It has clearly become the duty of the State to take steps to combat this serious public mischief.'

'Piracy puts cultural industries in jeopardy. UNESCO therefore aims to contribute to the fight against piracy in order to curtail its damaging consequences on the creation and dissemination of cultural goods and services. Its activities in this area are developed largely through innovative public/private partnerships, within the framework of the UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity whose main objective is to foster the development of sustainable cultural industries through capacity-buil more...

'The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English more...

'Jamillah Karim takes an extremely complex and contentious set of topics - race, class, gender and faith - and skillfully examines them within the framework of the ummah, or the Muslim community. American Muslim Women is an ethnographic account, but it is also a deeply personal look into the lives of a group of women whose voices are not typically heard in American society.'