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UNESCO Secretariat for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages

Languages are a core component of human rights and fundamental freedoms. They play a crucial role in the daily lives of people all over the world, allowing them to preserve and transmit their knowledge, values, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, history, cultures, traditions, and memory to the next generations, but also to participate to society and to construct their future. Despite their immense value, the vast majority of the approximately 7000 world’s languages, used by Indigenous Peoples, are at risk of falling into desuetude. Reasons for the endangerment of languages vary across different communities and locations. Indigenous peoples worldwide are experiencing challenges connected to migration, educational disadvantage, illiteracy, assimilation and enforced relocation. In this context, UNESCO has placed at the heart of its mandate the preservation, revitalization and support to linguistic diversity and multilingualism, both online and offline. The Organization acted as lead UN Agency for the implementation of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages and now, it has been tasked to continue leading global efforts in the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL2022-2032) as per United Nations General Assembly’s decision. The Decade provides a unique opportunity to engage in long-term actions and to enhance international cooperation in this area - for leaving none behind, no one outside by 2032.

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UNESCO Secretariat for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway

Norway

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

Japan

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History

United States

218 stories

After Hegel, Who Are We Going to Spit on? – Antithesis

La Galleria Nazionale

The Story of Silk

China National Silk Museum

Joan Jett Blakk, The Radical Drag Queen Who Ran For President

Donut (W)hole

Self Help Graphics & Art

Finding an Inca: The Sahuaraura Manuscripts and the Search for Lost Lineage

National Library of Peru

Ping-Pong and Pictures

Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation

How Propaganda Hid Abuse at Kinchela Boys Home, Australia

World Monuments Fund

Noongar Dolls: Stories of survival, resilience and healing

Museum of Freedom and Tolerance

No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation

The silent voices on Coimbra's walls

Virtual Museum of Lusophony

An Out and Out Plea for Racial Tolerance: West Side Story, Civil Rights, and Immigration Politics

Carnegie Hall

Preserving America's Chinatowns

Giulia Napoleone. Reality in Balance

La Galleria Nazionale

Native American Gallery

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Nuestras Historias: Colonial Mexico

National Museum of Mexican Art

Primitive 19th century photography

Château de Chantilly

Japonisme

Museum of Pont-Aven

Voices of Chinese Americans

Chinese American Museum DC

Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism

UNESCO Secretariat for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages

Koisa ole Lengai: A mission to save a language

National Museums of Kenya

How Puerto Ricans Have Reinvented West Side Story

The Ceramics of Oristano

Unioncamere

Stories of An Empire

Museu do Oriente

Our City! Jewish Vienna - Then and Now - Part 2

Jewish Museum Vienna

Aviva Silverman: Protect Me From What I Am

Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York

Q&A with Azu Nwagbogu

African Artists' Foundation

Flying on the Homefront: Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

The Dohány Street Synagogue: A Forerunner of its Age

Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

Unveil the secrets of the Roman walls!

Musée de la Romanité

Annunciation

Musei Capitolini

Klimt's Studies for "Fulfillment" in the Stoclet Frieze and the Painting "The Kiss"

Albertina Museum

American Ballet Theatre: The Journey Begins

American Ballet Theatre

Weaving Survival

Wyoming State Museum

Annunciation

Musei Capitolini

Who is Pocahontas?

Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

US Flags in Plains Beadwork

Wyoming State Museum

The Celts Were Also With Us

City Museum of Wrocław