Basic Texts of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, Edition 2005

Edition 2005 Budapest Declaration on World Heritage Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World …

Cairns Decision

The World Heritage Committee decision now referred to as the "Cairns Decision" was a suite of decisions adopted by the 24th session of the Committee (Cairns, Australia, 27 November - 2 December 2000) …

Reflection on the election system of the members of the World Heritage Committee

At its 13th session (UNESCO, 2001), the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention adopted Resolution 13 GA 9 for an equitable representation within the World Heritage …

Reflection Year on World Heritage Periodic Reporting

Background Documents Decision 7 EXT.COM 5 Decision 29 COM 11A Workshop on management effectiveness, monitoring for World Heritage values and statutory reporting: UNESCO Paris, 2 May 2005 …

Task Force on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention

The Task Force on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention was established by the 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Marrakesh, Morocco, 29 November - 4 December 1999. The …

TEMATEA Project on Issue-Based Modules for coherent implementation of biodiversity related …

The TEMATEA Project on Issue-Based Modules supports a better and more coherent national implementation of biodiversity-related conventions following a two-track approach: The Issue-Based Modules are …

Working Group on Equitable Representation in the World Heritage Committee

The Working Group on Equitable Representation in the World Heritage Committee was decided by the 23rd Session of the World Heritage Committee as a followup to the Twelfth General Assembly of States …

Working Group on the Representativity of the World Heritage List

The Working Group on the Representativity of the World Heritage List was decided by the 23rd Session of the World Heritage Committee as a followup to the Twelfth General Assembly of States Parties of …

World Heritage 2002, shared legacy, common responsibility

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972), UNESCO with the …

World Heritage and Indigenous Peoples

The idea of a World Heritage Indigenous Peoples Council of Experts (WHIPCOE) was presented to the 24th session of the World Heritage Committee in Cairns, Australia by representatives from Australia, …

World Heritage, Art and Economics: The World Heritage Convention in the light of Economic Theory

A paper prepared for the Clark Art Institute Conference on "Compression versus Expression : Containing and Explaining the World’s Art"Williamstown, April 6 - 8, 2000.byGeorges S. Zouain – …

World Heritage: Challenges for the Millennium

This publication provides analysis of more than three decades of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention and highlights a number of its successes and challenges. The result of a …

Disponibilité en langue arabe des textes relatifs à la mise en œuvre de la Convention du patrimoine …

Dans le cadre de la Convention du patrimoine mondial, la clarté et la précision des informations mises à la disposition des Etats parties sont deux conditions indispensables …

Youth Component, 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee

From 21 June to 10 July 2008, thirty young people met in Canada to deepen their knowledge of different aspects of World Heritage in the framework of the 32nd session of the World Heritage …

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