On 15 December 2006, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and Ambassador Tatjana Gjonaj, Permanent Delegate of Albania to UNESCO, signed an agreement establishing a Funds-in-Trust in favour of the restoration of the historical centre of Gjirokastra inscribed on the World Heritage List since 2005.Mrs Blegina Agalli, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Youth and ...
The Anna Amalia Library, part of the World Heritage site of Classical Weimar which was inscribed on the UNESCO List in 1998, will reopen in October 2007, three years after it was damaged by a fire. According to the architect in charge of the restoration works, Mr Walther Grundwald, the deadline should be respected. "We have chosen the date of 24 October for the re-opening, as it is the ...
Statement of the Director-General of UNESCO: Transmitting the past without alteration or omission
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Conclusions of the First HERITY International Conference
Saturday, 9 December 2006

2006-2007 World Heritage Map Available
Friday, 1 December 2006

New cooperation agreement signed between Belgian Science Policy Office and World Heritage Centre
Friday, 24 November 2006

Hippo Massacre in Virunga National Park (DRC): UNESCO Reacts
Thursday, 23 November 2006

Jet Tours and World Heritage Centre Implement Safeguarding Projects
Wednesday, 22 November 2006
New Report on World Heritage and Climate Change
Thursday, 9 November 2006

Preserving Congolese Heritage in Armed Conflict
Monday, 6 November 2006

UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary 2007 Now Available
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
UNESCO and Partners Demonstrate Space Technologies for Monitoring World Heritage
Saturday, 7 October 2006
Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Local Development for African Local Governments Published
Friday, 29 September 2006
No Survivors of WWF Helicopter Crash in Nepal
Monday, 25 September 2006

Sao Tome and Principe ratifies the World Heritage Convention
Thursday, 21 September 2006
Nominations for the prize have to be at UNESCO by 1 November 2006!The purpose of the Melina Mercouri International Prize (UNESCO-Greece) is to reward outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world's major cultural landscapes. The prize, which consists of a certificate and of the sum of US$20,000 U (for 2007), may be awarded either to an individual or to a group of ...
UNESCO Mission reports on war damage to cultural heritage in Lebanon
Tuesday, 19 September 2006

A 7000 Euro Grant for the Realization of a Cultural Project Concerning the Mediterranean World
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
A Virtual Tour of World Heritage Sites
Wednesday, 13 September 2006

TourismAfrica 2006 Promotes African World Heritage
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, today announced that the Organization will send a mission of experts, from September 10 to 16, to assess the potential damage caused to cultural sites in the recent conflict in Lebanon.
The mission will, among other things, visit UNESCO's World Heritage sites of Tyre, Baalbek and Byblos. Tyre and Baalbek, first built by the Phoenicians grew ...
Decisions adopted at the 30th session of the World Heritage Committee now available online
Friday, 25 August 2006

UNESCO Director-General launches “heritage alert” for the Middle East
Friday, 11 August 2006
2006 International Youth Camp Held for Restoration of Khami Ruins National Monument
Thursday, 3 August 2006

Worldwide photography project launched in support of World Heritage
Wednesday, 2 August 2006
Dresden City Council Votes Against Bridge Construction at World Heritage Site
Friday, 21 July 2006
New Sites Added to the World Heritage List 2006
Friday, 21 July 2006
UNESCO Courier, Virtual visit to five new World Heritage Sites
Thursday, 20 July 2006
UNESCO and its long standing media partner EVERGREEN Digital Contents have launched a new partnership through a project aiming to promote World Heritage Education in Japan. The project focuses on raising the awareness of elementary school students about natural World Heritage sites and issues concerning them. As a part of this partnership, a new i-mode site was developed for NTT DoCoMo called ...
The 30th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, Lithuania has been discussing the state of conservation of natural and cultural World Heritage sites. On Monday evening, delegates had the opportunity to hear about a joint IUCN and UNESCO project which is not only helping improve conservation on the ground but providing a consistent information base for reporting on the management ...
The World Heritage Committee Thursday inscribed ten new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List. A number of outstanding proposals for inscription are to be discussed in the afternoon. The new sites inscribed are:Sewell Mining Town (Chile). Situated 85 km south of the capital, Santiago in an environment marked by extreme climate more than 2,000 m up the Andes, Sewell Mining Town was built ...
The World Heritage Committee Thursday decided to extend the site inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2004 as Dečani Monastery (Serbia) and place it on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Committee also extended Andorra‘s site of Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley (Andorra), adding a buffer zone to the property that was listed in 2004. These inscriptions end additions and changes ...
The World Heritage Committee Wednesday added eight new sites and one extension to UNESCO's World Heritage List and removed the archaeological site of Tipasa (Algeria) from the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Committee will continue discussing new sites for inscription on the World Heritage List tomorrow. Below are the sites added to the World Heritage List Wednesday:Sichuan Giant ...
The World Heritage Committee decided Tuesday to place the cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley on the List of World Heritage in Dangerwith a view to avert plans by the municipality of Dresden to build a bridge over the Elbe on the site.
The Committee decided that plans to build a bridge across the Elbe would have such a serious impact on the integrity of property's landscape that it may ...
World Heritage Committee adopts strategy on heritage and climate change
Monday, 10 July 2006

30th session of World Heritage Committee opens in Vilnius
Monday, 10 July 2006
Improved conservation allowed the World Heritage Committee to remove Cologne Cathedral (Germany), Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary (Senegal), the Group of Monuments at Hampi (India) and Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia), from the List of World Heritage in Danger on Monday. The debate on the List of World Heritage in Danger will continue tomorrow. The decision by the authorities of Cologne to ...

World Heritage Committee to inscribe new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Tuesday, 4 July 2006

Economy Minister Confirms French Commitment to Protect Congo Forests
Thursday, 8 June 2006
Having been identified as a cross-cutting theme for global biodiversity conservation initiatives at the Fifth World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa (2003) the World Heritage Convention, one of the five international conventions addressing biodiversity needs, serves as an instrumental action-orientated mechanism for the protection of the world's most valuable natural resources and ...

World Heritage in Young Hands Kit Available in Hungarian
Wednesday, 17 May 2006

Guinea-Bissau ratifies the World Heritage Convention
Thursday, 11 May 2006
Launch of African World Heritage Fund
Wednesday, 3 May 2006
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, and the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Ina Marčiulionytė, today welcomed the decision by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, to change the course of an oil pipeline being built across Siberia to eliminate potential risk to the World Heritage site of Lake Baikal. "I wish to congratulate President Putin for ...

"Promoting and Preserving Congolese Heritage" Publication Now Available
Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Swaziland ratifies the World Heritage Convention
Friday, 14 April 2006
Cities Named '2010 European Capital of Culture' include World Heritage sites
Wednesday, 12 April 2006
Mali Launches Development of Timbuktu Management and Conservation Plan
Monday, 10 April 2006
World Heritage Centre Recognizes First World Migratory Bird Day
Sunday, 9 April 2006
Opportunities for Small Islands States to Nominate Marine World Heritage Sites in the Caribbean
Wednesday, 5 April 2006
Nature Conservation NGOs Pledge to Support World Heritage and Biodiversity Conventions
Tuesday, 4 April 2006
New Centre for World Heritage Studies at University of Minnesota, USA
Friday, 24 March 2006
The Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Ina Marčiulionytė, has sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, 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 ...
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 ...
The Basic Texts of the World Heritage Convention Available in Portuguese
Monday, 20 March 2006
Co-sponsored Fellowships for World Heritage Site Managers
Thursday, 16 March 2006

Second Spanish Edition of World Heritage in Young Hands Kit
Tuesday, 7 March 2006

Information Related to the World Heritage Convention Available in Arabic
Monday, 6 March 2006

First Steering Committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative
Wednesday, 1 March 2006

Rapid Response Facility Launched for Natural World Heritage Sites
Thursday, 23 February 2006
Meeting Held to Support Implementation of Biological Diversity Convention Programme
Thursday, 23 February 2006

Poster Competition Raises Awareness of Samoan Heritage
Tuesday, 21 February 2006
UNESCO Presents Design for Reinstallation of Aksum Obelisk
Thursday, 16 February 2006
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the publication of the 2006 World Heritage map, the first to be produced in collaboration with National Geographic and Hewlett Packard. The partnership, signed in 2005 for an initial period of three years, combines National Geographic's famous cartography with Hewlett Packard's quality print technology to beautifully illustrate ...

Jane Goodall receives UNESCO’s 60th anniversary medal
Thursday, 19 January 2006
On Friday November 25, 2005, the French Global Environmental Fund (FGEF) approved the financing of an ambitious project of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. This project aims to improve the conservation and sustainable management of wildlife in the forest landscapes surrounding some of the major tropical forest national parks of the Congo Basin. With a € 2.5 million budget, this project will ...