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         <title>New Centre for World Heritage Studies at University of Minnesota, USA</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) at University of Minnesota, USA, has established a Center for World Heritage Studies to undertake research and service projects in partnership with UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC).&#xa0; The objectives of this partnership are embodied in an agreement (MoU) between CALA and WHC signed on December 6, 2004. The CALA Center for World Heritage Studies is committed to research and education for the protection, conservation and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/241</link>
         <author>chenx121@umn.edu (Dr. Arthur Chen)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee Chairperson Sends Letter to President of Russian Federation concerning Lake Baikal </title>
         <description><![CDATA[The&#xa0;Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Ina Marčiulionytė,&#xa0;has sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin,&#xa0;concerning the state of conservation of the World Heritage site of Lake Baikal.The World Heritage Committee, the intergovernmental body established by the World Heritage Convention, regularly examines the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Committee has already expressed its concern regarding the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/242</link>
         <author>g.debonnet@unesco.org (Guy Debonnet)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Experts discuss World Heritage and Climate Change; results to be submitted to World Heritage Committee in July</title>
         <description><![CDATA[A two-day expert meeting on World Heritage and Climate Change successfully concluded at UNESCO Headquarters on Friday, bringing together over 50 representatives from the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, various international organizations, non-governmental organizations, the advisory bodies to the World Heritage Committee, and academic and scientific experts to discuss current and future impacts of climate change on World Heritage sites. The resulting proposed actions and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/240</link>
         <author>g.doubleday@unesco.org (Gina Doubleday)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>The Basic Texts of the World Heritage Convention Available in Portuguese</title>
         <description><![CDATA[As part of its commitment to World Heritage in Portuguese-speaking countries, the Portuguese National Commission for UNESCO has generously supported the translation of the Basic Texts. These texts are made available on the UNESCO World Heritage Centre&amp;#39;s web-page so that the broad community of lusophone countries can access and draw on this information for heritage safeguarding efforts in their countries.]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/239</link>
         <author>cnu@unesco.pt (National Commission of Portugal for UNESCO)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Co-sponsored Fellowships for World Heritage Site Managers</title>
         <description><![CDATA[UNESCO&amp;#39;s World Heritage Centre has signed a partnership agreement with the  French not-for-profit organization, ‘Vocations Patrimoine, l&amp;#39;H&#xe9;ritage du futur&amp;#39;, aimed at enhancing the management capacities of professionals currently working, or intending to work in the future, at World Heritage sites.  The Association, whose President is the renowned paleo-anthropologist Professor Yves Coppens, has secured financial support for the programme from international groups AXA and MAZARS.  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/235</link>
         <author>l.patchett@unesco.org (Lynne Patchett)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Second Spanish Edition of World Heritage in Young Hands Kit</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Patrimonio Mundial en Manos de Jovenes, the second Spanish edition of the World Heritage in Young Hands educational resource kit for teachers has just come off the press. The 2,000 copies are currently being distributed to ASPnet schools, ASP national coordinators, National Commissions, and UNESCO Field offices in all Spanish-speaking countries in the world.The WHYH resource kit was prepared as part of the UNESCO Young People&apos;s World Heritage Education Project. The Kit uses a  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/236</link>
         <author>c.quin@unesco.org (Carméla Quin)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Information Related to the World Heritage Convention Available in Arabic </title>
         <description><![CDATA[Within the framework of the World Heritage Convention, the clarity and precision of the information made available to the States Parties are two essential requirements for an appropriate implementation of the principles relating to its functioning and its application at the level of each country. Experience has shown that many of these principles are generally not well assimilated by the responsible national authorities, due to a lack of skill, at different levels, of the information  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/234</link>
         <author>v.dauge@unesco.org (Veronique Dauge)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>First Steering Committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On February 13-16, 2006, the World Heritage Centre organized the Steering Committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative (CAWHFI) in Libreville, Gabon. During this event, conservators and wildlife directors of the Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and the Central African Republic met with representatives of the United Nations Foundation, World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Wildlife Conservation Society, Cybertracker Conservation and the UNESCO-World Heritage Centre to discuss the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/233</link>
         <author>c.hance@unesco.org (Cédric Nathanaël Hance)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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