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Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World

17 July 2004 - Public event, London

  • This event discussed the benefactors and social conflicts that have aroused from the spread of cultures across the globe.
    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr provided an overview of the report, highlighting both the global prominence of the issues raised by it and the main arguments made in it.
    The report weighed up globalisation and its byproducts, along with the ideal that one's heritage, language and culture should be respected and accepted as the modern way in societies across the world. But, also, a growing fear that national and minority values and ways of life are being undermined by the spread of people, goods and ideas across the world.

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    Speakers:
    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Director of the HDR Office in New York
    Jorge Quiroga, former President of Bolivia now Kozmetsky Centre of Excellence in Global Finance - St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas.
    Johnny Grimond, Writer-at-Large The Economist
    Pat Holden, Senior Social Development Advisor, Exclusion, Justice and Rights team - Policy Division of DFID.
    Chair:
    Tony Worthington, MP

     

  • An ODI, All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development and United Nations Development Programme public event in the ODI Reading List series.

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