UN Resolution on the Promotion of the enjoyment of the cultural rights of everyone and respect for cultural diversity

UN Resolution 20/11 on the ‘Promotion of the enjoyment of the cultural rights of everyone and respect for cultural diversity’ was adopted by the Human Rights Council on 5 July 2012.

Reaffirming the previous resolution on cultural rights 17/15, it “requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, in 2013, a seminar of two working days on the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications in order to further clarify the content and scope of this right and its relationship with other human rights and fundamental freedoms”.