Satellite imagery helps monitor cultural heritage sites under threat
Thursday, 30 June 2016
This workshop is part of UNESCO’s ongoing efforts to address the priorities of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting for the Africa region, which called for increased capacity-building in dealing with risks and threats to heritage properties at both site-level and regional-level, The training course was co-organized by the African World Heritage Fund, a UNESCO category 2 centre, in ...
Winners announced: #OurWorldHeritage Instagram Competition
Monday, 27 June 2016
World Heritage Committee to meet in Istanbul, Turkey, 10 to 20 July
Monday, 27 June 2016
South Sudan ratifies the World Heritage Convention
Thursday, 23 June 2016
State of Conservation of the World Heritage Property “Historic Centre of Vienna”
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
“The destruction of heritage is inseparable from the persecution of people. This is why we consider the protection of cultural heritage today as far more than a cultural issue. This has become a humanitarian imperative, and a security issue,” stated UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova today in The Hague during the Europe Lecture 2016, organised by the European Lecture Foundation in ...
The Government of South Sudan prepares its World Heritage Tentative List
Monday, 13 June 2016
2016 State of conservation reports now available online
Monday, 13 June 2016
UNESCO’s Director-General condemns the Destruction of Nabu Temple
Saturday, 11 June 2016
World Oceans Day: Healthy Oceans – Healthy Planet
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Experts from nearly 40 countries, including 12 outside the Africa region, gathered in Arusha (Tanzania) for the international conference "Safeguarding African World Heritage as a Driver of Sustainable Development" co-organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the United Republic of Tanzania and the People's Republic of China, from 31 May to 3 June 2016.
In his opening statement, the ...
Policy makers and advisors from the Federal Government of Somalia and national heritage experts met on 6 June 2016 in Mogadishu to consider the benefits of ratifying the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. During a technical workshop organised by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education together with the Italian NGO CISP as part of the European-Union funded project ‘Reviving ...
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Sunday, 5 June 2016
Some 230 Syrian and international experts joined forces in a two-day meeting to assess damage to cultural heritage sites in Syria, develop methodologies and define priority emergency safeguarding measures for the country’s heritage. The expert meeting, held in Berlin from 2 to 4 June, was organized by UNESCO and Germany. It was opened by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Maria ...