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Cultural rights

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits (from Article 27)

UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976)

The right:

• To take part in cultural life
• To enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications
• To benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author (from Article 15)

UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976)

The right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language (from Article 27)

UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2001)

All persons have therefore the right to express themselves and to create and disseminate their work in the language of their choice, and particularly in their mother tongue; all persons are entitled to quality education and training that fully respect their cultural identity; and all persons have the right to participate in the cultural life of their choice and conduct their own cultural practices, subject to respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms (from Article 5)

Fribourg Declaration of Cultural Rights (2007)

• the right to cultural identity and heritage;
• the right to identify with a cultural community;
• the right to participate in cultural life;
• the right to education and training;
• the right to information; and,
• the right to participate in cultural policies.

Donald Horne's rights:

• the right to engage with human cultural heritage;
• the right to take part in new intellectual and artistic production; and,
• the right to find one's own forms of expression.

Hawkes's proposed single right:

• the right to actively participate in the social production of the values and aspirations that inform one's society

OR, even more simply

• the right to make up and tell our own stories

OR

• the right to sing and dance together

OR, perhaps fundamentally, just

• the right to play

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