Cultural rights have a very broad definition: they include the right to education, the right to participate in cultural life, the right to benefit from scientific progress and its applications, and rights of authors. This manual mainly elaborates on cultural rights in the cultural sector itself, not in education and science per se. Within the cultural sector the manual focuses mainly on the topics which are explicitly addressed by cultural rights or have been taken up by the UN Rapporteur on Cultural Rights. This includes artistic freedom and gender. Topics such as climate and environment and public space are not much addressed by cultural rights and the UN Rapporteur on Cultural Rights. These topics are included in our manual due to their increasing relevance. Their inclusion as cultural rights will be further elaborated. We want to thank the two authors of the Cultural Rights Manual, Helle Porsdam, Professor of Law and Humanities, University of Copenhagen and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights, who has written the introduction, and Ole Reitov, Member of the EU/UNESCO Expert Facility on the Governance of Culture for the implementation of the 2005 Convention, who has written the main text and facilitated dialogues with partners. They are each internationally recognized experts in the field. We also want to thank our partners and colleagues in the ENCs for their valuable feedback and contributions to producing this manual, as well as colleagues from other countries, who have also helped us in the process. DCI NDF Team Danish Cultural Institute By Olaf Gerlach Hansen 5