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World Radio Day 2022

Date: 
13 Feb 2022
Location: 
worldwide

13 February is a date proclaimed by UNESCO to celebrate radio broadcast, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to create and provide access to information through radio, including community radios.

World Radio Day 2021

Date: 
13 Feb 2021
Location: 
worldwide

13 February is a date proclaimed by UNESCO to celebrate radio broadcast, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to create and provide access to information through radio, including community radios.

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldradioday/

UNESCO Statement on Documentary Heritage and COVID-19

UNESCO’s Documentary Heritage Unit, Secretariat of the Memory of the World Programme has been working to clarify the conceptual and practical links between documentary heritage and pandemics. As such, they have now published a statement, co-signed by UNESCO and some of its key internal and external partners (including CCAAA). You can access this here:

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Before It Is Too Late: Protecting and Preserving Arab Audiovisual Heritage

Date: 
3 Nov 2019
Location: 
Doha, Qatar

The United Nations has designated 27 October as the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage aimed at building global awareness of the urgency and importance of preserving audiovisual materials such as sound recordings and moving images. These are among the most vulnerable types of heritage materials, due to the use of rapidly deteriorating materials in the construction of carriers and the impending obsolescence of playback machines, particularly for materials recorded on magnetic tape. A great deal of effort and care is required in order to preserve the marvelous 20th-century accomplishments of

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