Activities

Category 2 Centres under the auspices of UNESCO related to World Heritage
In recent years, the framework for training and research in the field of World Heritage has changed significantly. Among the factors that have contributed to these rapid changes, is the emerging ...
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One-off Initiative for the recognition of best practices
The World Heritage Capacity Building Strategy, adopted by the World Heritage Committee in 2011,  responds to the identified needs of a diverse and growing audience for capacity building for ...
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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 ...

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 ...

Periodic Reporting Asia & Pacific: 2nd cycle
The second cycle of Periodic Reporting for the Asia and Pacific was launched by the World Heritage Committee at its 34th session in Brasilia, Brazil in August 2010. All 41 State Parties to the ...

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 ...

Retrospective inventory and « boundary clarifications»
The Retrospective Inventory is a project aiming at the identification and collection of baseline data (such as boundaries, geographical coordinates, serial components, area of properties in ...

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. ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 mondial
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 ...

World Heritage Youth Forum (2007) Asia Pacific
Thirty students and 36 delegates throughout the Asian Pacific region met from 18 to 24 June 2007 in New Zealand to deepen their knowledge of the Maori and Pacific heritage in the framework of the ...

World Heritage Youth Forum (2009) 1st Ibero-American
In conjunction with the 33 rd session of the World Heritage Committee, sixty-eight participants, of which, thirty-nine secondary school students from 10 countries learned new skills to preserve ...

Youth Component, 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee (2008)
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 ...