Socio-Cultural Economic Political Inclusion minority, migrant, indigeneous rights

Socio-Cultural Economic Political Inclusion minority, migrant, indigeneous rights are becoming more at risk of violations in the Pandemic. Here are resources and paths for the building inclusive societies.

Acknowledgement of Social, Cultural, Environmental, Gender Justice and Rights are as necessary for sound political governance as well as corporate governance.

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GLoCal Communities – Global Latin American Caribbean

Caribbean societies are in themselves complex entities where migrants of every continent meet indigeneous communities. Their experiences of learning to live together, settlement and adaptation and forging of a multicultural environment in small island setting provide remarkable insights into living together for a sustainable world.

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Dr Kris Rampersad facilitates cultural heritage safeguarding inventory session documenting Mayan Culinary Heritage at UNESCO Workshop Belize
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Literary Heritage Sites, Landmarks, Lifestyles
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Bob Marley’s Reggae Music Road To UNESCO Intangible Heritage
Through Ancient and New World
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Additionally, their migration into populations across the globe lend additional flavour to diasporic communities.

Inclusive Socio-Cultural Community Outreach

In our diverse world, how culture-sensitive is your organisation? Policies? Programmes? How do you measure your community impact. What is your role in building Inclusive Communities? How can you centralise culture in development? Are your corporate social responsibility policy and programmes Inclusive? Gender Sensitive? Culture Sensitive? Make Contact

Grow Safeguard Preserve our GloCal Legacy

With rapidly changing technologies in media, many of our knowledge resources are fast disappearing or becoming inaccessible. We are in the process of digitising our archives representing more than 30 years of contemporary Caribbean development linked to more than 10,000 years of regional pre and post colonial history and heritage and elements and archives of our GloCaL Caribbean and Latin American Heritage scattered around the world. Make contact.

To support, sponsor, collaborate and partners with our digitisation efforts. Or to develop your own legacy initiatives, and safeguard, preserve, or develop your own legacy initiatives, multimedia museum, galleries, archives, make contact.

International Instruments and Actions

Sustainable Development Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Sustaianble Development Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

The General Assembly, Reaffirming that one of the basic aims of the United Nations, as proclaimed in the Charter, is to promote and encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Reaffirming faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,
Desiring to promote the realization of the principles contained in the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as other relevant international instruments that have been adopted at the universal or regional level and those concluded between individual States Members of the United Nations,
Inspired by the provisions of article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights concerning the rights of persons belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
Considering that the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities contribute to the political and social stability of States in which they live,
Emphasizing that the constant promotion and realization of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as an integral part of the development of society as a whole and within a democratic framework based on the rule of law, would contribute to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation among peoples and States,
Considering that the United Nations has an important role to play regarding the protection of minorities,
Bearing in mind the work done so far within the United Nations system, in particular by the Commission on Human Rights, the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and the bodies established pursuant to the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments in promoting and protecting the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
Taking into account the important work which is done by intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in protecting minorities and in promoting and protecting the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
Recognizing the need to ensure even more effective implementation of international human rights instruments with regard to the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
Proclaims this Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities:
Article 1
1. States shall protect the existence and the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their respective territories and shall encourage conditions for the promotion of that identity.
2. States shall adopt appropriate legislative and other measures to achieve those ends.
Article 2
1. Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (hereinafter referred to as persons belonging to minorities) have the right to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, and to use their own language, in private and in public, freely and without interference or any form of discrimination.
2. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to participate effectively in cultural, religious, social, economic and public life.
3. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to participate effectively in decisions on the national and, where appropriate, regional level concerning the minority to which they belong or the regions in which they live, in a manner not incompatible with national legislation.
4. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to establish and maintain their own associations.
5. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to establish and maintain, without any discrimination, free and peaceful contacts with other members of their group and with persons belonging to other minorities, as well as contacts across frontiers with citizens of other States to whom they are related by national or ethnic, religious or linguistic ties.
Article 3
1. Persons belonging to minorities may exercise their rights, including those set forth in the present Declaration, individually as well as in community with other members of their group, without any discrimination.2. No disadvantage shall result for any person belonging to a minority as the consequence of the exercise or non-exercise of the rights set forth in the present Declaration.
Article 4
1. States shall take measures where required to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all their human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law.
2. States shall take measures to create favourable conditions to enable persons belonging to minorities to express their characteristics and to develop their culture, language, religion, traditions and customs, except where specific practices are in violation of national law and contrary to international standards.
3. States should take appropriate measures so that, wherever possible, persons belonging to minorities may have adequate opportunities to learn their mother tongue or to have instruction in their mother tongue.
4. States should, where appropriate, take measures in the field of education, in order to encourage knowledge of the history, traditions, language and culture of the minorities existing within their territory. Persons belonging to minorities should have adequate opportunities to gain knowledge of the society as a whole.5. States should consider appropriate measures so that persons belonging to minorities may participate fully in the economic progress and development in their country.
Article 5
1. National policies and programmes shall be planned and implemented with due regard for the legitimate interests of persons belonging to minorities.
2. Programmes of cooperation and assistance among States should be planned and implemented with due regard for the legitimate interests of persons belonging to minorities.
Article 6
States should cooperate on questions relating to persons belonging to minorities, inter alia , exchanging information and experiences, in order to promote mutual understanding and confidence.
Article 7
States should cooperate in order to promote respect for the rights set forth in the present Declaration.
Article 8
1. Nothing in the present Declaration shall prevent the fulfilment of international obligations of States in relation to persons belonging to minorities. In particular, States shall fulfil in good faith the obligations and commitments they have assumed under international treaties and agreements to which they are parties.
2. The exercise of the rights set forth in the present Declaration shall not prejudice the enjoyment by all persons of universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms.
3. Measures taken by States to ensure the effective enjoyment of the rights set forth in the present Declaration shall not prima facie be considered contrary to the principle of equality contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4. Nothing in the present Declaration may be construed as permitting any activity contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations, including sovereign equality, territorial integrity and political independence of States.
Article 9 The specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system shall contribute to the full realization of the rights and principles set forth in the present Declaration, within their respective fields of competence.

Adopted by General Assembly resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992

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Human Rights Instruments for building inclusive societies

The UN Charter

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief

The Convention on the Rights of the Child,

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women

About Dr Kris Rampersad

Dr Kris Rampersad joins Google Women TechMakers and Google Digital Skills Ambassadors to empower the worldWoman Techmakers' Ambassador — Dr Kris Rampersad joins skills as UNESCO and National Geographic Certified Educator as a Women TechMakers and Google Digital Skills Ambassador

Dr Kris Rampersad is an award winning journalist, innovator, educator and sometimes scholar, with a PhD in Literatures in English, a UNESCO-trained heritage educator/facilitator, National Geographic certified educator, global Woman Tech Makers’ Ambassador and Worldpulse/Google Digital Ambassador. Read more here.

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From UNESCO ICH Facilitator’s Network

In addition to her role as hertiage facilitator, Dr Kris Rampersad is an award-winning journalist independent sustainable development educator, multimedia producer/publisher, lecturer, trainer & consultant.

She holds a BA First Class Honours and PhD degrees from the University of the West Indies.

Her specialty is in the ICH intersections with World Heritage, heritage tourism and creative industries, intercultural dialogue, Creative Cities, Slave, Silk, Indentured Immigrant Routes.

She implements effective culture and multi-media, communications and outreach strategies, policies, and develops creative interactive education programmes in inclusion, intellectual property, rights, freedoms.

Her core skills include research, documentation, inventorying and policy making, awareness building, and use of traditional, conventional and new media for empowerment.

She has authored three books.

She served on the UNESCO Executive Board, Chair Education Commission.

She was an independent member and Vice President of the UNESCO ICH Consultative Body.

See: https://ich.unesco.org/en/trainer/rampersad-krishendaye-01530