The Latin American and Caribbean Regional Committee for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme (MoWLAC), announces its XXV annual Meeting, which will be held in Lima and Cusco, Peru, from 10 to 13 November 2025.
The meeting, organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Peru, the Regional Government of Cusco, and the Peruvian Committee of UNESCO´s Memory of the World Programme, will gather the current MoWLAC Committee members and advisors, who will evaluate 71 applications to the Regional Memory of the World (MoW) Register, presented by 15 countries: Argentina (3), Bolivia (8), Brasil (18), Colombia (11), Costa Rica (2), Chile (1), Dominica (3), Ecuador (3), Guatemala (1), Mexico (7), Peru (8), Saint Lucía (1), Trinidad & Tobago (1), Uruguay (2) and Venezuela (2).
The programme will also include an International Conference on «Challenges and achievements in the preservation of Latin American and Caribbean documentary heritage», with prominent international and Peruvian documentary heritage experts as speakers. The Conference will also include a commemorative event to mark the 25th Anniversary of the setting up of the MoWLAC Committee.
The event will be transmitted virtually on November 10, through the Ministry of Culture of Peru Video Wall (virtual meeting room) and, from November 11 to 12, through Facebook Live of the Supreme Court of Justice of Cusco.
The Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Memory of the World Programme (MoWLAC) was established in June 2000, in the city of Pachuca, Mexico, with the aim of promoting the Programme and launching the Regional Register, which began registering nominations in 2002.
As part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the creation of MoWLAC, the Committee reaffirms its central role in promoting the protection and awareness of the importance of documentary heritage, including in digital form, in order to make it accessible worldwide.
To date, MoWLAC has registered 263 inscriptions at the regional level in 34 countries. These records correspond to significant pieces of the documentary heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, that are preserved in archives, libraries and museums, which address issues associated with the history, culture and identity of the region: the processes of colonization and independence from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries in different countries; the evidence on the transatlantic slave trade to America; the botanical expeditions by naturalists; diverse photographic and film collections; sound recordings, colonial music or tango; migratory flows; the struggle for human rights, the consequences of the political dictatorships of the twentieth century or regional artistic and literature trends, among others. (https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/xxv-annual-meeting-2025-latin-american-and-caribbean-regional-committee-unescos-memory-world)
