1422 Events
15-19 March 2004
14-17 March 2004
12-16 March 2004
As part of its tourism programme, UNESCO World Heritage Centre will host its first stand ever at the International Tourism Exchange (ITB), the world's largest travel and tourism trade fair, which will be held in Berlin, Germany from 12–16 March 2004. UNESCO has hosted workshops at ITB every year since 1999, but this is the first time that the World Heritage Centre will have a permanent ...
11 March 2004
Information Meeting for all States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, (10h00 - 13h00)
Europe and North America Periodic Reporting, (14h30 - 16h00)
Promoting and Preserving the Heritage of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (16h00 - 18h00)
11 March 2004
During this meeting States Parties representatives from Europe and North America were: (i) updated of the progress made in the periodic report exercise; (ii) informed about future deadlines and calendar of meetings and (iii) provided with a practical presentation on the on-line Periodic Reporting Tool.
4-7 March 2004
Organised by the World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the Government of Eritrea and Africa 2009 (ICCROM, UNESCO-WHC, CraTerre-EAG, African cultural heritage institutions) as counterparts. It brought together 20 experts from various African countries, who presented Asmara (Eritrea), the Kenya Cultural Centre and National Theatre (Kenya), Mzizima Historic Garden Quarter in Dar es Salaam ...
3-7 March 2004
The twenty-ninth General Conference of UNESCO, held in 1997, decided to activate Article 29 of the World Heritage Convention concerning the submission of Periodic Reports on the state of implementation of the World Heritage Convention (Section I) and the state of conservation of World Heritage properties (Section II). The periodic reports will also help focus the World Heritage Committee's as ...
29 February 2004 - 4 March 2004
28 February 2004 - 3 March 2004
Expert meeting organized by Nuria Sanz in cooperation with the World Monument Fund
23-27 February 2004
Sub-regional conference
17 February 2004 - 4 March 2004
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Flemish Goverment, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Egypt's Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
15-29 February 2004
The World Heritage Committee has expressed the need to have a more balanced World Heritage List, which should be representative of the diversity of the world natural and cultural heritage. Within this context and as a follow up of the Regional Seminar on Desert Landscapes organized in Egypt (Kharga Oasis, September 2001), which underlined the strong potential of desert sites for inclusion in ...
9-20 February 2004
2-5 February 2004
Organizer: The organization "Capuli" in collaboration with the Permanent Delegation of Peru to UNESCO
24-29 January 2004
21-23 January 2004
All World Heritage Site Managers are expected to leave the meeting understanding the purpose of periodic reporting, the process and timetable for preparing the national and synthesized reports, their roles and responsibilities, and the next steps. They are equipped to begin the organisation and drafting of their Section II reports and understand the IT application to do so.
Primary ...
4 December 2003
Within the Africities 2003 congress, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre is organizing a special session on "African Cities and Heritage", to be held on Thursday 4 December 2003.
Bringing together African and European mayors and parliamentarians, as well as representatives from universities and groups devoted to international cooperation this session will be the occasion to open a discussion ...
21-23 November 2003
The 1999 amendments to the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter incorporated the concept of interpretation in conservation, as an essential part of securing the future of heritage places by informing and exciting their constituencies. Interpretation can communicate cultural significance and reflect diverse identities and values. But at times the medium overwhelms the message- just as ...
22-26 September 2003
National Coordinators from Russia, Ukraine and representatives of the national coordinators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus will participate in the International Training Workshop for the preparation of the Periodic Reporting exercise. All the participating countries need to fill in Section I of the Report concerning the implementation of the World Heritage Convention on the ...