Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Climate change threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites
The threats posed by climate change to natural and cultural sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List are outlined in a new UNESCO publication, "Case ...

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Concern for the State of conservation of the Church of St. Cyril, located near Saint-Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the UNESCO Office in New York have received a large number of letters from individuals who are concerned about ...

Monday, March 19, 2007
Launch of New Cycle of UNESCO-VOCATIONS PATRIMOINE Co-Sponsored Fellowships for World Heritage Site Managers
World Heritage site managers and people intending to pursue a career in World Heritage site management are being invited to apply for Fellowships ...

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Old City of Jerusalem: Publication of UNESCO’s technical mission Report
"The technical mission that I had sent from 27 February to 2 March 2007 to the Old City of Jerusalem, which is inscribed on UNESCO's World ...

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Statement from the Chairman of the Executive Board on the activities under-way at the site of the Old City of Jerusalem
The following statement is issued by the Chairman of UNESCO's Executive Board, Mr Zhang Xinsheng. 1. The six Arab members of the Executive Board ...

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Old City of Jerusalem: return of the technical mission’s experts
The technical mission sent by the Director-General of UNESCO to the Old City of Jerusalem, which is inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, ...

Monday, March 5, 2007
[in French only] Newsletter n° 5 de la Convention France-UNESCO
[in French only] Actualités sur l'avancement des projets CFU :Le comité mixte de coordination (CMC) de la Convention France-UNESCO a eu lieu le 8 ...

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Royal Palaces of Abomey in Young African Hands
Equipped with shovels, wheelbarrows and water buckets, twelve girls and thirteen boys between the ages of 14 and 17, from eight different countries in ...

Friday, February 23, 2007
UNESCO to send technical mission to assess the situation concerning the work on the access to the al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has decided to send a technical mission to the Old City of Jerusalem, inscribed on UNESCO's ...

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Huge Settlement Unearthed Near Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Archaeologists at the University of Sheffield have unearthed a huge settlement at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge, confirming that the Stonehenge ...

Monday, February 12, 2007
Publication on Eco-tourism in Central and South Asia Available
The project on the Development of Cultural and Ecotourism in the Mountainous Regions of Central and South Asia has just produced a publication ...

Friday, February 9, 2007
Director-General offers UNESCO’s assistance to repair fire damage at World Heritage City of Valparaiso
Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO today offered the Organization's assistance in repairing damage caused by the fire that ...

Thursday, February 8, 2007
The Director-General of UNESCO voices his alarm over the resumption of tensions in the Old City of Jerusalem
On Tuesday 8 February 2007, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, expressed his "deep concern over the work initiated by the Israeli ...

Thursday, February 1, 2007
'Management and Preservation of Historic Cities on World Heritage List' Conference Held in St Petersburg
The conference on "Management and Preservation of Historic Cities inscribed on the World Heritage List" is taking place in St ...

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Concern for World Heritage site after British Coast Cargo Spill
The World Heritage Centre expresses its deep concern regarding the cargo spill off the British Coast. The MSC Napoli is grounded near Sidmouth's ...

Friday, January 19, 2007
Situation Worsens at Virunga National Park (DRC): Two Male Gorillas Killed
The situation continues to get worse at Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo), where 2 male silverbacks have been killed.The ...

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Director-General signs a funds-in-trust agreement for the restoration of the historical centre of Gjirokastra in Albania
On 15 December 2006, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and Ambassador Tatjana Gjonaj, Permanent Delegate of Albania to UNESCO, signed ...

Friday, December 15, 2006
Re-opening of the Anna Amalia Library (World Heritage site of Classical Weimar) planned in October 2007 after the fire of 2004
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 ...

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Statement of the Director-General of UNESCO: Transmitting the past without alteration or omission
"In the face of the attempts to re-write history that are currently at work, I can but recall in the most emphatic manner that it is our moral ...

Saturday, December 9, 2006
Conclusions of the First HERITY International Conference
This conference was held in Rome from December 5-9. The conclusions outlined below were reached thanks to contributions from ICCROM, UNESCO-WHC, ...