Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sustainable Indicators in World Heritage Urban Areas, Mexico City, Mexico
A mission was organized from the 30th January - 5th February 2010 in view of strengthening Spanish Funds-in-Trust technical cooperation, focusing on ...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Publication of the Comparative Analysis on Archaeology of Hunter-gatherers. Archaeological sites of the Chinchorro Culture
The International Meeting "The Chinchorro Culture from a Comparative Perspective ", took place in Arica, Chile, 5-8 January, 2010. As a ...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
UNESCO Special Envoy on Preah Vihear to meet with prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova's Special Envoy on the Preah Vihear Temple, Koïchiro Matsuura, will travel to Bangkok and Phnom Penh between ...

Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Lightning damages Pratapur Temple of Kathmandu Valley World Heritage site, Nepal
Pratapur Temple in the Swayambhu Monument Zone of the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage site, Nepal suffered damage from a lightning strike at around 5 ...

Thursday, February 10, 2011
UNESCO Director-General to send Special Envoy to Bangkok and Phnom Penh
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova regretted the continuing tension between Cambodia and Thailand over the issue of the Temple of Preah Vihear. "The ...

Tuesday, February 8, 2011
UNESCO to send mission to Preah Vihear
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today reiterated her call for calm and restraint around the Temple of Preah Vihear, inscribed on the ...

Sunday, February 6, 2011
Director-General expresses alarm over escalation of violence between Thailand and Cambodia
UNESCO Director- General Irina Bokova expressed her deep concern at the sudden escalation of tensions between Cambodia and Thailand on the issue of ...

Thursday, February 3, 2011
Cultural heritage update for Egypt
UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova today received assurances from Egypt's new minister for antiquities Zahi Hawass that every possible measure was ...

Wednesday, February 2, 2011
World Wetlands Day is 2 February
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Secretariat to the World Heritage Convention, wishes to extend its best wishes to the Secretariat for the Ramsar ...

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
UNESCO Director-General launches heritage and press freedom alert for Egypt
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today launched an appeal to protect cultural heritage and to respect freedom of expression in ...

Friday, January 28, 2011
Three guards and five soldiers killed in attack at Virunga National Park (DRC)
On 24 January 2011, three park guards and five soldiers were killed in a violent attack against one of the patrol vehicles of the Congolese Wildlife ...

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Last Call: Caribbean Heritage Course in Curaçao
The University of the Netherlands Antilles is organizing a course on Caribbean Heritage in Curaçao from 21 to 25 March 2011 for Module 1 ...

Monday, January 17, 2011
Colorado State University (USA) offers Spanish-language course on Protected Area Management
Applications Open for the Colorado State University Spanish Language Short Course on Protected Area Management.  6 July – 6 August 2011 ...

Friday, January 14, 2011
Kinshasa Declaration to protect DRC World Heritage sites signed
At the invitation of the Congolese Government, the high-level meeting requested by the World Heritage Committee in 2007 (Christchurch 2007) was held ...

Friday, January 7, 2011
Rescuing the Congo's natural world heritage
A high-level meeting between authorities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and UNESCO will take place in Kinshasa on 14 January to ...

Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Two rhinos translocated to Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
Two rhinos, a mother and a female calf, were translocated on 29 December from the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary to Manas wildlife sanctuary in western ...

Monday, January 3, 2011
Panasonic World Heritage calendar released in online version
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Panasonic have released an online version of the World Heritage Calendar in five languages. It is available as a ...

Monday, January 3, 2011
2011 is the International Year of Forests
The World Heritage Centre welcomes the International Year of Forests.  With 104 WH sites recognized wholly, or in part, for their rich forest ...

Saturday, January 1, 2011
Best Wishes from the World Heritage Centre 2011
Best Wishes from the World Heritage Centre 2011