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May 11, 2021
Having signed the Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, Poland has joined a group of 28 states which have already inked the document.
The Faro Convention emphasises that the conservation of cultural heritage and its sustainable use have human development and quality of life as their goal.
On behalf of Poland, the convention was signed by Poland s permanent representative at the Council of Europe, ambassador Jerzy Burski, the Culture Ministry reported on Tuesday.
The convention also says that everyone, alone or collectively, has the responsibility to respect the cultural heritage of others as much as their own heritage, and consequently the common heritage of Europe.
Government urged to consider turf cutting as protected cultural practice
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Offaly TD calls on Government to consider turf cutting as protected cultural practice
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Campaign starts to declare a day on the bog a cultural human right
TD references the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in calling for turf cutting to be declared “protected cultural practice”
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A campaign has started to persuade the Green Party s Minister for Culture to have turf cutting protected under EU or international conventions as a cultural human right.
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said she has written to the Minister for Culture Catherine Martin in an effort to investigate if traditional turf cutting practices can be protected under EU or international conventions.
Deputy Nolan said that she would be making the move following increasing concerns that those who had engaged in turf cutting for home heat and cultural reasons were effectively being subjected to a process amounting to creeping criminalisation .