São Paulo Declaration on Culture and Sustainability

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Jose Murillo:

"About the São Paulo Declaration: on January 29, 2012, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture organized another meeting at the ‘Thematic World Social Forum’ in Porto Alegre and the ‘Meeting of Mercosur High Authorities – Culture and Sustainability Towards Rio +20’ was held in Sao Paulo. This meeting was part of the Cultural MERCOSUR agenda, with the presence of representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The gathering of these Mercosur leaders produced the ‘São Paulo Declaration on Culture and Sustainability’."

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SAO PAULO DECLARATION ON CULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY

"Gathered in the city of São Paulo, Federative Republic of Brazil, April 14, 2012, under the Meeting of Senior Officials on South-American Culture and Sustainability, Ministers, Secretaries of State and other authorities of Culture Rep ~ Argentine Republic , Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Chile Republic of Ecuador, Republic of Paraguay Republic of Peru and the Republic of Uruguay;

HAVING SEEN the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of 2001, the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions of UNESCO in 2005, the Convention for the Protection of Patrirnônio World Cultural and Natural Heritage of UNESCO in 1972, the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Patrirnônio UNESCO, 2003, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2008, the Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in 2001; the Ibero-American Cultural Charter of 2006, the Agenda 21 for culture, and the Declaration of Bogotá's First Meeting of the Andean Council of Ministers of Culture and Cultures, 2012, horn and other statements issued by the Ministers and High Authorities of Culture of Mercosur , the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), the Bolivarian Alternative for the Arnéricas (ALBA) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in their regular meetings;

AND WHEREAS:

The need to establish a new international economic order and urn new financial architecture, in order to cope with) multiple current crisis and ensure financing mechanisms for sustainable development;

The cultural character of the concept of sustainability, since the very notion of "support" emerges from a cultural substrate and re-produce themselves socially from a consensus of values ​​among different social groups, imbued with their baggage, symbolic of his historical heritage and its relations with the territory and environment;

The content of the document of UNESCO for Culture Power cfa Desenvolvimenfo, which states that: "The culture in all its dimensions, is a key component of sustainable development";

The conviction that, beyond its traditional role in the promotion and protection of arts and heritage, cultural policy must exert transformative force, promoting interculturalism, the full exercise of cultural rights, social inclusion and good relations, as well as the strengthening the ties of people and communities with the territory and áistintos cohesion and convergence of social groups;

Transversality and the strategic role of culture in building a response to the challenges of sustainability and human development with equity and social inclusion;

The recognition of the diversity of cultural expressions as an essential condition for sustainable development for the benefit of present and future generations;

The need for coordination of efforts to deepen the dialogue between countries of the region with a view to recovery of culture as an indivisible dimension of sustainable development;

The realization in the city of Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio +20;

AGREE

1. Require the negotiating authorities of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Desenvolvirnenfo considerern that, in its final document, culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development, recognizing the horn size organizer and generator balance between the three pillars reconheciáos until the moment: the ~ 'econôrnico, social and environmental;

2. Promote the concept of "Living 8em" (Sumak Kawsay, language (Quechua; Sumaq Qarnana in Aymara language, and Teko Pora, language goaran; teotaj as enrq dd sustainability perspective. This new form of citizen ethics, conceived from the organized articulation, dynamic and sustainable systems of economic, political, social, cultural and environmental, have horn aimed at ensuring the reproduction of life with an intergenerational horizon;

3. Emphasizing that respect for cultural diversity and promoting interculturalism are indispensable for the consolidation of peace and global security by supporting the democratic coexistence, fair and mutual respect among peoples;

4. Affirm cultural rights as partial human rights and ensure their full enjoyment, as well as the democratization processes cu) furais;

5. Promote at the national and regional public policies articulated and focused on cross-protection, promotion and safeguarding of assets (J cultural and natural heritage, recognizing them as heritage and indispensable link between past, present and future;

6. Underscore the need to start trading of a Universal Declaraqão Direifos of Nature, in which it is recognized horn subject of cycles and the evolutionary process of humanity;

7. Highlighting the importance of the social dimension of culture to sustainable development, which is effective in civic education, in the exercise of democratic values ​​and opportunities of access to information, knowledge and artistic creation, as well as the broad freedom of expression;

8. Reaffirm the culture econôrnica its size, as it induces the creation, innovation, and ernpreendedorismo generating wealth and employment opportunities, cultural production processes should enhance the local specialties and traditional knowledge;

9. Develop joint actions aimed at strengthening the creative economy of the region, fostering the exchange of experiences and policies that promote the economic potential and cultural communities and different creative territories and value innovation, inclusion, sustainability and cultural diversity;

10. Recognize, in the same way, the environmental component of the cultural diversity of South American people, that ref lete in the preservation and legitimacy of indigenous peoples over their own territories and modes of interaction with the ecosystem in which they live, as well as preservation and protection of tangible and intangible heritage of the region;

11.Assegurar protection, recognition and appreciation of knowledge (from the cultures of indigenous peoples of South America, people of African descent and the diverse communities of our countries;

12. Search the effectiveness of regional cooperation efforts with regard to the strategic role of culture and the challenges of sustainability, taking into consideration the construction of more just societies, conscious and inclusive;

13. Develop joint initiatives to strengthen the character of cross-culture and its relationship with other public policies that contribute to poverty eradication and promotion of Living Well;

14. To continue, with the support and participation of different sectors of civil society, the debate on culture and sustainable beyond the period of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

The Ministers and High Authorities expressed their commitment to forward this Declared national government bodies involved in the negotiation process of the official United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, as well as promote it in multilateral fora in which they participate."

Signed in Sao Paulo, on April 14, 2012.