October 27: World Day for Audio Visual Heritage 2020

October 27, 2020

Every year the World Day for Audio Visual Heritage is celebrated on October 27 by UNESCO to increase the awareness of significance of the audio visual documents.

This year the day is celebrated under the theme

Theme: Your Window to the World

Highlights

The initiatives such as World Day for Audio Visual Heritage, UNESCO project Digitizing our Shared UNESCO history and the Memory of World Programme, UNESCO tries to safeguard the audiovisual heritage.

Memory of the World Programme

It was established in 1992. The programme works to establish the fact that the world documentary heritage belongs to all. It should be permanently protected and preserved for all. Also, it should be accessible to all without hindrance.

Significance

The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage serves as an opportunity for the member countries to implement the Recommendation Concerning the Preservation of and Access to Documentary Heritage including in Digital Form.

UNESCO days

The other important days that are marked by UNESCO are

January 24: International Day of Education
February 13: World Radio Day
February 21: International Mother Language Day
March 8: International Women’s Day
March 21: World Poetry Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 22: World Day for Water
May 16: International Day of Light
May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
June 5: World Environment Day
June 8: World Oceans Day
August 9: International Day of the world’s Indigenous People
August 12: International Youth Day
August 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and in Abolition
September 8: International Literacy Day
September 15: International Day of Democracy
September 21: International Day of Peace
October 5: World Teachers Day
October 13: International Day for Disaster Reduction
October 17: International Day for eradication of Poverty
November 5: World Tsunami Awareness Day
Third Thursday of November: World Philosophy Day
November 16: International Day for Tolerance
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 10: Human Rights Day
December 18: International Migrants Day