COMMUNITIES THAT MANAGE AND SAFEGUARD DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE ARE INVITED TO APPLY.
The Regional Committee of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (MoWLAC) invites institutions, communities and individuals who manage and safeguard documentary heritage to incorporate their documents and documentary sets into the Regional Memory of the World Register.
The purpose of the call is to incorporate into the "Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean", the document or documentary set, of an archival, bibliographic or audiovisual nature, existing in countries of the Region, with relevance for the collective memory of Latin American and Caribbean society.
We invite you to submit proposals to the Memory of the World, that account for the features of the history and evolution of Latin America and the Caribbean, and will document, among other milestones, processes and characteristics of migratory flows, the colonial past, the development of native populations or languages, the struggle for human rights.
The document or documentary set, of an archival, bibliographic nature, can be text-based (manuscript or printed), audiovisual (film, video, sound record), iconographic (photography, print, design) or cartographic, on paper or other material supports. The conditions for participation and qualification of the applications candidatures are contained in the "Regulations for applications to the Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean'' as well as its respective Application Form.
All documents and forms are available on the MoWLAC website (https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/lac?hub=84793 ). For more information please contact the Saint Lucia National Commission for UNESCO at telephone numbers 758 468 5273 / 758 730 0372 or via email slunatcom@yahoo.com.
The deadline for the submission of applications is 15 August 2024 at 23:59 p.m.