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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
World Heritage Site Management Workshop in Belgium
The City of Brussels recently hosted a workshop entitled "Inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List: New perspectives for local development", ... -
Monday, September 7, 2015
Bhutan 2015: Workshop and Forum on the Cultural Landscape and Sustaining its Significance
UNESCO World Heritage Centre and UNESCO New Delhi Office, in close collaboration with the Department of Culture of the Royal Government of Bhutan, ... -
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Director-General Irina Bokova expresses consternation at the destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, expressed profound dismay as she condemned the destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, one of the ... -
Monday, August 24, 2015
Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova firmly condemns the destruction of Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syria
The Director-General of UNESCO firmly condemns the destruction of the ancient temple of Baalshamin, an iconic part of the Syrian site of Palmyra, a ... -
Friday, August 21, 2015
Director-General Irina Bokova deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquity
The Syrian cultural heritage community suffered two immense blows within one week with the murder of archaeologist Khaled Assad in Palmyra and the ... -
Friday, August 21, 2015
Director-General Irina Bokova condemns the destruction of the Mar Elian monastery in Syria
The Director-General of UNESCO strongly condemns the destruction of the Mar Elian monastery located in the Syrian town of al-Qaryatayn. The monastery ... -
Friday, August 14, 2015
Building capacity in the Galapagos Islands to strengthen fisheries compliance
World Heritage marine sites are only as effective as their compliance programs, and marine protected areas around the world struggle to combat illegal ... -
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
World Heritage Volunteers 2015 Action Camps welcome the International Youth Day on 12 August
On the occasion of International Youth Day, over ten Action Camps will be carried on in the framework of the World Heritage Volunteers 2015 campaign. ... -
Friday, August 7, 2015
Job Vacancy: Deputy Director, World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITRAP Shanghai)
Job Vacancy: Deputy Director of the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of ... -
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
State of conservation of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Over the last several months,the World Heritage Centre has been receiving numerous messages from citizens and NGOs expressing their concern regarding ... -
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
UNESCO and Iraq launch project for conservation of World Heritage site of Samarra
UNESCO and Iraq today signed an agreement for the Conservation and Management of the World Heritage site of Samarra Archaeological City, which will ... -
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Vacancy: Integrated Management Planning Capacity Building Expert
European Union and UNESCO initiative: "Towards strengthened governance of the shared transboundary natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid ... -
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Director-General praises the people of Timbuktu for the reconstruction of the city’s mausoleums
Timbuktu, Mali, 19 July—The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova yesterday visited Timbuktu whose mausoleums have been rebuilt three years after ... -
Friday, July 17, 2015
Aggtelek National Park, Hungary celebrates 20 years on World Heritage List
Aggtelek National Park (ANP) was established in 1985 to protect the uniquely rich natural and cultural heritage in the region, and in particular the ... -
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Call for applications for the new edition of the Masters in "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development” - English and Spanish
The call for applications for the new edition of the Masters in "World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development", offered by the University of ... -
Thursday, July 16, 2015
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Presents World Heritage Certificate to President Peña Nieto of Mexico
Director-General Irina Bokova presented the President of Mexico, HE Enrique Peña Nieto, the certificate of inscription to UNESCO’s World Heritage List ... -
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Emergency Action Plan for the Safeguarding of Yemen’s Cultural Heritage announced
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today announced an Emergency Action Plan for the Safeguarding of Yemen’s Cultural Heritage upon the conclusion of ... -
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Private Sector partners for World Heritage meet in Bonn during 39th Committee session
A World Heritage partners’ event and panel discussion took place on 2nd July hosted by the German Television Deutsche Welle in Bonn, on the occasion ... -
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
World Heritage Committee announces 2016 meeting in Istanbul, 24 new sites inscribed in Bonn
The World Heritage Committee ended its meeting today announcing it will hold its next session in Istanbul, Turkey, from 10 to 20 July 2016. During ... -
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
UNESCO takes World Heritage to Archeologists
From July 1 to 3, 2015, University of Zimbabwe hosted the Biennial Conference of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists ...