The Belgian government has recently given its financial support to the 3rd phase of the project "Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Conserving World Heritage sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo" with a total amount of 2 million Euros.
The five World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Parks Virunga, Kahuzi-Biega, Garamba and Salonga, ...
National Government Officials and World Heritage site managers, essentially from 24 countries in the Asia and the Pacific Region, but also from other continents of the world, gathered together at the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITRAP, China) and participated in an Asia-Pacific Regional Training Workshop on Assessment of ...
Germany gives 3.2 million dollars for the safeguarding of Ivorian parcs and reserves
Friday, 18 December 2009
Director General presents UNESCO climate change initiative at Copenhagen Conference
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Restoration works continue despite violent storms at the Great Mosque of Djenné
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit now available in Spanish
Monday, 14 December 2009
UNESCO saddened by loss of Goodwill Ambassador Professor Ikuo Hirayama
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of several World Heritage sites
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Natural Science courses open at the new Jurassic Studies Centre in Lyme Regis
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Ifugao Province, Philippines and Italy's Cinque Terre Park sign Twinning Program
Monday, 30 November 2009
Exhibition of Aksum Obelisk Re-installation opens in Rome
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Business Skills training sessions begin for World Heritage sites
Friday, 13 November 2009
'Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO : les sites marocains' is published
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The General Assembly of States Parties to the 1972 World Heritage Convention replaced more than half the 21 members of the World Heritage Committee during its biennial session, which took place at UNESCO Headquarters from 23 to 28 October. The Committee is responsible for the implementation of the Convention. The General Assembly also focused on the priorities to be set in implementing the ...
Poland is the Denkmal national partner 2010
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Twelve members elected to World Heritage Committee
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
UNESCO and online travel giant TripAdvisor launch World Heritage partnership
Friday, 23 October 2009
A 7000 Euro Grant For the Realization of a Cultural Project Concerning the Mediterranean World
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Representatives from the national, regional and local authorities led by Spain's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Ambassador María Jesús San Segundo, met Francesco Bandarin, Director of the World Heritage Centre, on 8 October to discuss the conservation of the World Heritage property of "Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture".
The meeting focused on preparations of a joint expert ...
The 35th session of the General Conference is meeting from 6-23 October 2009, and the 17th General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention will meet from 23 to 28 October 2009 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
At the General Conference, a feasibility study on the desirability of a new UNESCO Recommendation on the conservation of the Historic Urban Landscape ...