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75.
To strengthen the cultural sector in realizing cultural rights, the Government
should:
(a)
Provide the Department of Culture with all the necessary resources,
including human resources, needed for the implementation of the national cultural
policy strategic plan;
(b)
Establish the culture development coordinating committee, as envisaged
in the Te Kakeega III and further defined in the national culture policy;
(c)
Implement the Cultural Council Act, adopted in 1991 and revised in 2008,
and consider its coordination with the Cultural Heritage Committee endorsed by
parliament in 2019;
(d)
Ratify the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural
and Natural Heritage and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion
of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions;
(e)
Dedicate more attention to the availability of safe and appropriate public
spaces for artistic and cultural expression, including, where needed, suitable physical
infrastructure;
(f)
Secure funding and go forward with the integrated cultural building, to
include the offices of the Department of Culture, the Tuvalu National Library and
Archives and multipurpose cultural spaces, without delay and as a matter of urgent
priority.
76.
To improve knowledge of and interest in the cultural resources of each island in
Tuvalu, the Government should:
(a)
Integrate a diversity of the country’s cultural heritage, such as different
songs, myths and stories from all the islands, and history teachings recognizing the
diversities in the national education curriculum, in cooperation with the Ministry of
Education and educational stakeholders;
(b)
Continue to support the compiling of the diverse dialects of the Tuvaluan
language, including its variations across the islands, and give priority to reviving and
strengthening its teaching;
(c)
Support the development of repositories of cultural heritage-related
materials, such as museums and cultural centres;
(d)
Employ the existing infrastructure of each island as spaces for the
enactment, practice and transmission of cultural heritage, as well as for the display of
local arts, crafts and creative works;
(e)
Support initiatives and opportunities, both regional and international, for
Tuvaluans from all islands to participate in cultural exchanges and cooperation.
77.
To improve the realization of cultural rights in facing the environmental crisis
caused by the climate emergency, the Government should:
(a)
Periodically assess the human rights impact of climate change and natural
disasters, including on the enjoyment of cultural rights, and including on a variety of
social groups, such as youth, women, persons with disabilities, persons living in poverty
and minorities;
(b)
Support diverse sectors of the population, including those facing
discrimination and marginalization, in becoming more resilient in the face of the
climate emergency and natural disasters, taking into consideration their knowledge and
expressed needs;
(c)
Integrate human rights, including cultural rights, in a more explicit
manner into the new national strategy for sustainable development (Te Kakeega IV)
and ensure that it includes a gender and non-discrimination perspective;
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