Heritage in Danger
Cultural heritage faces multiple challenges including illicit trafficking, natural disaster, war and conflicts or simply by neglect. UNESCO New Delhi works on the advocacy on the need of risk management of cultural heritage.
News on our Activities
- 04.06.15 - Training for monastery and nunnery caretakers on digital inventorying of treasures
- 18.09.14 - IRCI-UNESCO mission to Colombo (Sri Lanka)
- 30.06.14 - Survey of Endangered Traditional Craft in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka
- 30.04.14 - UNESCO to assess the impact on Nepal’s cultural heritage of the devastating earthquake
- 17.09.13 - Post-Disaster Damage Assessment: Uttarakhand Initiative
- 30.01.13 - Protecting Bhutan’s Heritage from Fire
Other Relevant Topics
- Safeguarding Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage in India
- 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict
- 1970 Convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property