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This section provides information about the 1972 World Heritage Convention and UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre.

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1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
1972 Recommendation concerning the Protection, at the National level, of the Cultural and Natural Heritage
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2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape
2015 World Heritage and Sustainable Development Policy
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
A
Acceptance
Accession
Achieving gender equality
Advisory Bodies
Advisory Bodies (to the World Heritage Convention)
Agencies/institutions responsible for cultural and/or natural heritage
Article 5 (of the World Heritage Convention)
Attributes
Attributes of OUV
Attributes, condition of
Attributes, identification of
Authenticity
Awareness-raising
B
Benefits (of ratification)
Benefits (of World Heritage inscription)
Benefits of Tourism (in the Sustainable Tourism context)
Bilateral agreement
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Liaison Group
Biosphere reserve
Biosphere Reserve (Man and the Biosphere Programme)
Boundaries
Boundaries (Guidance)
Buffer zones
Buffer zones (Guidance)
C
Capacity building
Capacity building needs
Civil society
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate Change Policy (Policy Document on the Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Properties)
Committee Decision (Nominations)
Committee Decision (State of Conservation)
Communities
Communities - one of the Strategic Objectives
Communities (Strategic Objectif)
Communities, Article 5 of the World Heritage Convention, 5 (a) (Function in the life of communities)
Comprehensive/larger scale planning programmes
Conflict prevention
Conflict resolution
Conservation
Contractual/institutional/traditional
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the World Heritage Convention)
Convention on Biological Diversity - Aichi Biodiversity targets
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention)
Criteria (World Heritage)
Criteria for selection of World Heritage sites
Cultural diversity
Cultural heritage
Cultural landscape
Culture Sector, UNESCO
D
Designation (World Heritage)
Disaster
Disaster risk
Disaster risk management
Disaster risk reduction
Diversity of cultural and natural heritage
Documentary heritage
Donors
E
Ecosystem benefits
Ecosystem services
Education programme (heritage)
Enhanced Protection
Environmental impact assessment
Environmental sustainability
Equity
External experts
F
Features
First Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention
Fostered peace and security
Function in the life of communities
G
Gender
Gender balanced contribution and participation
Gender equality
Gender-balanced
General Assembly
General Assembly of State Parties to the World Heritage Convention
General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention
Geographic information table
Governance
H
Heritage Impact Assessments
Heritage practitioners
Heritage processes
Historic layering in urban environment
Historic urban fabric
Historic urban landscape
HUL approach
HUL recommendation
Human rights
I
ICCROM
ICCROM International/regional
ICOM
ICOMOS
ICOMOS
ICOMOS thematic studies
Identification of attributes
Identification of heritage
Impact assessment tools
In the process of adhering to
Inclusion and equity
Inclusive economic development
Inclusive social development
Indicator
Indicators, World Heritage
Indigenous and tribal peoples
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure development
Inscription (on the World Heritage List)
Institutional framework
Intangible heritage
Intangible heritage (Periodic Reporting)
Integrity
intercultural Dialogue
international assistance
International bilateral funding
international designations
International multilateral funding
International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
International Register of Cultural Property under Special Protection
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
Interpretation
Interpretation/communication of World Heritage properties
inventories/lists/registers (of cultural and natural heritage)
IUCN
IUCN (Periodic Reporting)
IUCN national/regional
J
Justification for inscription
L
Legal Framework
Legal Framework, partially adequate
legal framework, partially adequate
legal framework, World Heritage
List of Cultural Property under Enhanced Protection
List of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar List)
List of World Heritage in Danger
Locally-driven
Low/ high impact research/ monitoring activities
M
Management plan
Management system
Maps, submitted to the World Heritage Centre
Memory of the World Programme
Mitigation (disaster)
Mixed cultural and natural heritage properties
Monitoring
Monitoring Indicator Framework, World Heritage, Periodic Reporting
Monitoring Process
Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)
N
National Commission for UNESCO
National cultural heritage strategies, policies and action plans
National Focal Point (World Heritage)
National law
National level
National strategy
National sustainable development policies and strategies
Natural heritage
Natural/cultural/mixed
Nomination dossier
Nomination of properties
Nomination, involvement of local people
Not party to
NWHF
O
Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage
Other specific groups
Outreach
Outstanding Universal Value
P
Party to
Periodic Reporting Exercise
Policy for the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention (objectives of)
post-conflict recovery
Presentation (of sites)
prevention (disaster)
Private sector funds
project costs
Project funding
protection
protection and management
Protective designation
Protective Measures
Public awareness
Public expenditure
Q
Quality of life
R
Ramsar site
Ratification
Recognition
Recommendations of the World Heritage Committee
Regulation(s)
Regulatory framework
Reporting
Reporting (World Heritage)
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
resilience to natural hazards
Resources
Rights-based approaches
Risk assessments
Risk preparedness
S
Science Sector, UNESCO
Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Security
Serial Inscription/serial properties
Services for the Identification, Protection, Conservation and Presentation of Natural and Cultural Heritage
Session (of the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention)
Site Managers
Site revenues
social inclusion and equity
State of conservation
State of Conservation report
State Party
Statement of OUV
States Parties
Statutory processes
Strategic environmental assessment
Strategy for Capacity Building
Strategy for Reducing Risks from disasters
Sustainable (also sustainability)
Sustainable development
Sustainable Tourism
synergies
T
Target audience, capacity building
Tentative List
Tentative List
Tentative List, revision
The Ramsar List
Thematic studies, World Heritage
Traditional conservation processes
Transboundary
Transnational
U
UNEP-WCMC
UNESCO Category II Centres
UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks
UNESCO clubs/associations
UNESCO Conventions
UNESCO cultural conventions
UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws
UNESCO Global Geoparks
UNESCO Global Geoparks applicant
UNESCO Global Geoparks network
UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme
UNESCO Programmes
UNESCO Recommendations
UNESCO’s Global Strategy for a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List
Upstream process
V
Values
Values
Visitor management
Visitor/Tourism revenue
W
Wider setting
Work plan/Action Plan
World Heritage Capacity Building Strategy
World Heritage Centre
World Heritage Centre
World Heritage Committee
World Heritage Committee
World Heritage Convention
World Heritage Education Programme
World Heritage emblem
World Heritage Focal Point
World Heritage fund
World Heritage identification
World Heritage in Young Hands Kit
World Heritage List
World Heritage management
World Heritage properties twinned with others at national or international level
World Heritage Property
World Heritage Protection
World Heritage Resource Manual
World Heritage status
World Heritage Sustainable Tourism, Toolkit
World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)

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