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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Statement from the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee
Since the Kingdom of Bahrain became for the first time a member of the prestigious World Heritage Committee in 2007, one of the objectives has been to welcome the distinguished delegates of the States Parties to the Convention in ...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Kishore Rao appointed Director of UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Kishore Rao has been appointed Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. An expert in forestry and natural resources policy and planning, Mr Rao has been Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre since 2005, and has, in addition to ...

Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Director-General urges military forces engaged in Libya to refrain from endangering cultural heritage
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today called on both Libya and the coalition of States implementing a no-fly zone over the country to respect the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed ...

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Call for Posters on World Heritage Cities and Climate Change for the 11th OWHC World Congress
In view of the forthcoming 11th World Congress of the Organization of World Heritage Cities in Sintra (Portugal), 22 to 25 November 2011, the OWHC has launched a Call for Posters on the congress theme World Heritage Cities and Climate ...

Monday, March 21, 2011
Statement of the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee
Following the kind invitation of the World Heritage Centre, I had the great pleasure to attend the meeting entitled "Follow-up to the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the Arab States: Regional Meting for the Elaboration of the Regional ...

Friday, March 18, 2011
Arab States meeting held to define regional programme
From 2008 to 2010, the Arab States Parties to the World Heritage Convention undertook the Periodic Reporting exercise, consisting in assessing the implementation of the Convention in their countries and in each of their sites inscribed on the ...

Friday, March 18, 2011
Director-General welcomes suspension of oil prospection at Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that the government of the DRC has suspended prospection for oil ...

Friday, March 18, 2011
35th session of the World Heritage Committee to meet in Paris in June 2011
Due to the prevailing situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain and following consultations with Bahraini authorities, the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has decided to change the venue of the forthcoming 35th session of the World Heritage ...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
UNESCO World Heritage Centre expresses its solidarity with Japanese people following tragic events
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre would like to express its condolences for the loss of lives due to the devastating earthquake and tsunami which occurred near Japan on 11 March. Immediately following the events, Francesco Bandarin, interim ...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tsunami Spares Galapagos Wildlife, but Destroys Marine Laboratory
Minor damage has been reported at Galápagos Islands World Heritage site following the earthquake and tsunami that occurred off the coast of Japan on 11 March.  The tsunami struck at high tide, and manifested itself as a series of ...

Friday, March 11, 2011
[in French only] Newsletter N° 18 de la Convention France UNESCO
[in French only] Vie de la CFU * Réunion de bilan technique, 3 Février 2011, UNESCO, Paris* Rapport sur les possibilités de financement européen pour les projets cultureles et ...

Thursday, March 10, 2011
Resource Manual 'Preparing World Heritage Nominations' available online
The second title within the World Heritage Resource Manuals Preparing World Heritage Nominations (First Edition, 2010) series has just been published. It is a joint undertaking by the three Advisory Bodies of the World Heritage Convention ...

Monday, March 7, 2011
Experts outline future plans for the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan)
Afghan officials and international experts outlined plans for the future safeguarding of the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan) at the end of two meetings at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 2 to 4 of ...

Thursday, March 3, 2011
Ten years on – remembering the tragic destruction of the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan (Afghanistan)
UNESCO will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragic destruction of the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan with a forum on the event and a two-day experts' meeting which will examine ways to preserve and present to the public the Cultural ...