The Regional Committee of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (MoWLAC) invites institutions, communities and individuals who manage and safeguard documentary heritage to incorporate their documents and documentary sets into the Regional Memory of the World Register. 

The purpose of the call is to incorporate into the "Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean", the document or documentary set, of an archival, bibliographic or audiovisual nature, existing in countries of the Region, with relevance for the collective memory of Latin American and Caribbean society. 

We invite you to submit proposals to the Memory of the World, with records that account for the features of the history and evolution of Latin America and the Caribbean, to join those that the Regional Committee has recognized in previous years in archives, libraries or museums and, that document, among other milestones, processes and characteristics of: 

• migratory flows; 
• cultural, personal, artistic, scientific or commercial exchanges; 
• the struggle for land and geopolitical changes; 
• the colonial past; 
• the development of native populations or languages; 
• the richness of natural resources, their biodiversity and their endemic species; 
• the origin and development of dictatorships in the twentieth century; and 
• the struggle for human rights. 

We call for a broad record of the cultural, social and historical processes interwoven through our societies. 

The document or documentary set, of an archival, bibliographic nature, can be text-based (manuscript or printed), audiovisual (film, video, sound record), iconographic (photography, print, design) or cartographic, on paper or other material supports. They are in addition to digital and electronic documents and publications. 

The conditions for participation and qualification of the applications candidatures are contained in the "Regulations for applications to the Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean'' as well as its respective Application Form. All documents and forms are available on the MoWLAC website.  

The deadline for the submission of applications is 15 August 2024 at 23.59 hours, UTC-5 (Ecuador) The final results of the evaluation will be published after the XXIII Annual Meeting of the MoWLAC Committee and will be available on the MoWLAC website.  

26 April 2024. 

Peter Scholing 
Chair, 
Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean - MoWLAC 
UNESCO Memory of the World Programme – MoW