Friday, September 12, 2008
Jaeger-LeCoultre and International Herald Tribune provide support to World Heritage Marine Programme
With the support of Jaeger-LeCoultre, Swiss luxury watch manufacture, the World Heritage Marine Programme will begin a series of conservation ...

Friday, September 5, 2008
Inauguration Ceremony for the Aksum Obelisk
“The reinstallation of the Aksum Obelisk is a source of pride for UNESCO,” said Assistant Director-General for Culture, Françoise ...

Friday, August 8, 2008
[in French only] Newsletter n° 10 de la Convention France-UNESCO
[in French only] Actualités sur l'avancement des projets de la Convention France Unesco. Saint Louis du Sénégal : Suivi de ...

Friday, August 1, 2008
Mission accomplished: Aksum Obelisk successfully reinstalled
Aksum, August 1 - The third and last block of the Aksum Obelisk was successfully mounted by the UNESCO teams yesterday 31 July in its original ...

Monday, July 28, 2008
Second block of Aksum Obelisk successfully re-installed
In the framework of the Aksum Obelisk reinstallation project funded by Italy, the second block of the Aksum Obelisk was successfully installed on 25 ...

Thursday, July 10, 2008
World Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of Bordeaux, Machu Picchu, Timbuktu and Samarkand
The World Heritage Committee has asked that “reinforced monitoring” be applied to four properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in ...

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Three new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee (Israel) are inscribed for the testimony they provide to the ...

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Twenty-seven new sites inscribed
The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, finished inscribing new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 8 July with the ...

Monday, July 7, 2008
Eight new sites, from the Straits of Malacca, to Papua New Guinea and San Marino, added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight new cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the morning of the 7 ...

Monday, July 7, 2008
Canadian fossil park, an Icelandic volcanic island and archipelago in Yemen among sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, inscribed 13 new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in the afternoon and evening ...

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Slave hideout in Mauritius, Nabataean archaeological site in Saudi Arabia and earthen houses in China inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The mountain of Le Morne, a former hideout of runaway slaves in Mauritius, a Nabataean archaeological site in Saudi Arabia and earthen houses in ...

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Armenian monasteries in Iran added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Fortified Armenian monasteries in Iran were added to the new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 6 July. The Armenian Monastic ...

Friday, July 4, 2008
Avian Malaria found in Galápagos Penguins
On July 1st the Galápagos National Park announced that the parasite causing avian malaria was found in several Galápagos penguins by ...

Friday, July 4, 2008
World Heritage Committee keeps Dresden Elbe Valley on UNESCO World Heritage List, urging an end to building of bridge
The World Heritage Committee has decided to retain Dresden Elbe Valley on UNESCO World Heritage List in the hope that the building of a four-lane ...

Thursday, July 3, 2008
32nd Session of World Heritage Committee opens in Quebec
The 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee opened on July 2nd with an official ceremony in Quebec City, which is celebrating its 400th ...

Monday, June 23, 2008
World Heritage Committee to meet in Quebec to inscribe new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee will consider requests for the inscription of new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List when it meets for its 32nd ...

Monday, June 23, 2008
First phase of Aksum Obelisk re-installation successfully completed
The first phase of the re-installation works of the Aksum Obelisk, also known as Stele 2, in its original location at the World Heritage site in ...

Friday, June 6, 2008
News from the Our Place-World Heritage Centre Partnership
Online images of World Heritage sites, an outdoor exhibit and a new book project are among the most recent developments of the partnership between the ...

Friday, June 6, 2008
Loss and Damage Assessment after China Earthquake
Officials continue to assess the damage following the devastating May 12 earthquake in China, where approximately 69,000 people were killed and 19,000 ...

Friday, June 6, 2008
Discovering and Preserving World Heritage sites with Indiana Jones
In coordination with the release of the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Friends of World Heritage (the UN Foundation, the ...