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Fair Culture Charter

This website presents the Fair Culture Charter

The document Fair Culture Charter supports the creation and strengthening of a movement for Fair Culture that wants to achieve decent working conditions for all artists, creatives, and other cultural workers.
 

Why this Charter?

Many artists, creatives, and cultural workers worldwide live and work under precarious conditions, in particular in Low and Middle Income Countries. 95 % of all exports of cultural goods and services originate in High Income Countries. The Covid-19 pandemic worsened inequalities even further. Digital platform economies and Artificial Intelligence change all value chains, very often not for the better for artists, creatives, and cultural workers. 

UNESCO has created relevant international law (its 2005 Convention on Cultural Diversity). The Convention gives binding guidance to governments. The Fair Culture Charter goes further: It explains responsibilities of all stakeholders in culture and the creative industries, in particular companies of the corporate sector, to promote a sustainable, fair and respectful environment. More momentum, more commitment, more partners, more networks are needed. 

This is what this Charter, inspired by the Fairtrade Charter, wants to achieve. And thus, decent working conditions for all artists, creatives and other cultural workers worldwide, and therefore, safeguard cultural diversity globally. 

The content of the Charter

The Charter strengthens fairer cultural relationships by articulating a preamble, a definition, four objectives and eight principles intended to promote a sustainable, fair and respectful environment for artists, creatives, and other cultural workers, and, therefore, to safeguard cultural diversity globally.

Read the full text of the Charter or download a PDF brochure in: English   Français   Español   Deutsch

Why sign the Charter?

Why should YOU sign the Charter? If you do, you declare that you support the Charter’s content and that you support our intention to take further steps. If you sign, you will increase the number of partners and allies and thus visibility, credibility and legitimacy.

Signing the Charter does not entail any legal obligation for you. This however also means that signing the Charter is not a "certification” and does not allow you to make any statements about the quality of your business practices in relation to the
Charter. By signing the Charter, you will not be entitled to use any logo or a label.

Learn more about the process and the experts involved in formulating the Charter.

About us

The Fair Culture Charter is already supported by a number of institutions from all around the world, both government institutions and non-governmental ones. 

We, the organizations and individuals that have signed this Charter, do so to support and be part of this Fair Culture movement. 

We invite other public, private and civil society organizations, government entities as well as individuals to sign this Charter. By signing, we commit to bring its principles to life and promoting their widespread knowledge and adoption.

This website invites you to learn more about the Fair Culture Charter and, hopefully to inspire you to sign the Charter. 

On behalf of the partner consortium for Fair Culture /
Au nom du consortium partenaire du mouvement Fair Culture /
En nombre del consorcio asociado de Cultura Justa /
Im Namen des Partnerkonsortiums für Fair Culture:


German Commission for UNESCO /
Commission allemande pour l'UNESCO /
Comisión alemana para la UNESCO /
Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission e.V. 
Martin-Luther-Allee 42
53175 Bonn
Germany / Allemagne / Alemania / Deutschland 
+49 228 60497 100
info@fair-culture.org


Dr. Lutz Möller (responsible / responsable /verantwortlich), 
Friederike Kamm, Juliane Baumgarten, Zsuzsanna Aszodi

Imprint / Mentions légales / Editor / Impressum

Data protection / Protection des données / Protección de datos / Datenschutz 

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