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Report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultures and cultural rights
Issued by
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Published
04 February 2021
Report
Issued by Special Procedures
Subjects
Cultural rights, COVID-19
Symbol Number
A/HRC/46/34
Summary
In her 2021 report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur focused on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on cultures and cultural rights and the potential global cultural catastrophe it represents, with severe, long-lasting consequences for cultural rights and other human rights.
Background
In 2020, several Special Procedure mandate holders wished to focus their thematic reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council or the General Assembly on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the enjoyment of human rights. To inform their respective studies, they jointly developed a questionnaire, which was disseminated widely to States, regional and local governments, international and regional organizations, National Human Rights Institutions, equality bodies, and civil society organizations, UN agencies, funds and programmes and other interested stakeholders in May 2020.
Inputs Received
Inputs Received
States, regional and local governments
- Argentina 1 | 2
- Armenia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- China
- Cyprus - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Finland
- Greece
- Italy
- Maldives - Annex
- Mexico
- Panama
- Romania Annex
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Spain
- State of Palestine
- United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) – Culture Committee
UN entities and International organizations
National Human Right Institutions
- Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (CNCDH) – France
- Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México (CNDH)
- Defensor del Pueblo - Spain
- Personeria de Medellin- Colombia
- Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos – El Salvador
- Service de lutte contre la pauvreté, la précarité et l’exclusion sociale - Belgium
Civil society organisations
- The Aguda (Israel)
- Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
- Association of Independent Showmen (United Kingdom)
- Association of Italians "Rino Zandonai" Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Brazilian joint civil society submission– Instituto sociambiental, Survival International, Rainforest Foundation US, Rede de Cooperação Amazônica, Conectas Direitos Humanos, Instituto Igarapé, Greenpeace Brasil.
- Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador
- ECPAT- Portugal – Ending the sexual exploitation of children
- Freemuse (global)
- International Action Network for Gender Equity and Law
- International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines (Germany), and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians (USA)
- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- IPAS Centroamerica y México
- Joint submission - Rang, Mena Organization for Services Advocacy Integration & Capacity building (MOSAIC), Korean sexual-minority Culture & Rights Center, Society of transsexual Women of the Philippines, and Diversity and Solidarity Trust (Asia) Annex
- Minority Rights Defenders and artists
- Minority Rights Group
- Pen America
- People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL)
- SOS Esclaves Mauritanie
- South Korean Human Rights Network (Minbyun)
- Support Art Workers (SAW)
- Treatment Action Group (TAG), Annex, Update Annex II
- Terra de Direitos and Labá Direito, Espaço e Política (Brazil)
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Academics and individuals
- Centro de Estudios en Derechos Humanos (CEDH), Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNICEN), Argentina
- H.B. Adediran Olaiya, UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Expert
- IMPACT - The Imagining Together Platform for Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation Annex 1 | 2
- Cristóbal Ruiz Román, Jesús Juárez Pérez-Cea, Lorena Molina Cuesta, José Manuel de Oña Cots and David Herrera Pastor, University of Malaga English | Español
- Dr. Patrice Meyer-Bisch, Observatoire de la diversité et des droits culturels, Fribourg