Registration deadline for the master's degree course "World Heritage at Work"
Thursday, 30 April 2009
World Heritage Scholarships in U.S. National Parks
Monday, 27 April 2009
Director-General inaugurates exhibition celebrating re-installation of the Aksum Obelisk
Thursday, 23 April 2009
With the financial support of the World Heritage Fund, as well as national organizers of India, the final of a series of "Itinerant Workshops on the Conservation and Management of Persian, Timurid and Mughal Architecture", has successfully taken place in Delhi and Agra, from 6 to 12 April 2009 in India. It was jointly organized by the World Heritage Centre, the Archaeological Survey of India ...
UNESCO presents exhibition on reconstruction of Aksum obelisk
Monday, 20 April 2009
World Heritage Centre expresses condolences for victims of earthquake in Italy
Monday, 20 April 2009
World Heritage Centre signs agreement with INRAP for site conservation
Thursday, 16 April 2009
7th Meeting of the Liaison Group of the Biodiversity-related Conventions held
Friday, 10 April 2009
This lecture presents a brief history of attitudes to conservation in the 20th Century - the key concepts underpinning the Venice Charter (1964) UNESCO recommendations on historic areas (1976) and the Lahore recommendations on historic cities (1980).
Professor Lewcock chronicles these changes in his own experiences in Cairo (1972-1984) and Uzbekistan (1970-1996) and he discusses in detail ...
UNESCO was recently informed of two serious threats at the Marojejy and Masoala national parks in the north of Madagascar, which are part of the recently inscribed Rainforests of Atisnanana World Heritage site.
Inscribed on the World Heritage List in June 2007 during the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee, the site is composed of six ...