UNESCO- MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference

UNESCO- MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference- Relevance for UPSC Exam

• GS Paper 2: International Conference- Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

UNESCO- MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference in News

• Minister of State for Culture will represent India in the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development- MONDIACULT 2022.
• The Indian Minister is expected to address the MONDIACULT 2022 conference on burning issues and concerns of the Cultural sector policies.

MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference

• About: The UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development- MONDIACULT 2022 is convened by UNESCO forty years after the first Mondiacult World Conference on Cultural Policies.
  • First UNESCO- MONDIACULT 2022 was held in Mexico City (Mexico) in 1982.
  • MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference is being held 24 years after the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies for Development held in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1998.
  • UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference is the third such conference.
• Participation: In UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference, Culture Ministers of more than 100 countries will participate on this multilateral forum to decide on the global cultural discourse.
• Venue: UNESCO- MONDIACULT 2022 is being held in Mexico City (Mexico).
• Mandate: The main goal of the MONDIACULT 2022 World conference is-
  • To shape a more robust and resilient cultural sector, fully anchored in the perspectives of sustainable development as well as
  • Promotion of solidarity, peace, and security, in line with the vision enshrined in the UN Secretary-General’s report ‘Our Common Agenda’ (September 2021).
  • UN Secretary-General’s report ‘Our Common Agenda’ refers to culture as a ‘global public good, the good of us all.’
• Significance: UNESCO has convened its Member States and the global community to embark jointly on a continuous reflection on cultural policies to tackle global challenges and outline immediate and future priorities.

What are Sustainable Development Goals?

• First discussed in United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015.
• Sustainable development goals of UN  were adopted as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
• In 2015, 3-landmark agreement was signed. Sustainable development goals by UN , COP 15 or Paris Climate Conference and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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