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From the 20 to the 23 September 2004, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre organised an international seminar involving official representatives and experts in the area of Archaeology in the Caribbean for the identification of Archaeological sites in the Caribbean for potential inscription on the World Heritage List, in Fort-de-France, Martinique. The results of the seminar ...
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During the 7th International Symposium of the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) in Rhodes, Greece (23-26 September) a Youth Forum was held within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage in Young Hands Project . The forum was attended by 19 young people between 18 and 20 years of age, who met at the Marc de Montalembert Foundation in the heart of the medieval ...
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Financed by the US Contribution to UNESCO, the US$250,000 pilot project for the documentation and conservation of Kabul Museum’s endangered collections produced inventories of objects that survived the years of war, trained staff in conservation techniques and restored objects destroyed by Taliban.
This pilot project, part of the UNESCO Programme for the Preservation of ...
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Situated in an exceptionally beautiful landscape and covering a vast area of 42 km2, Hampi, in India, contains major archaeological remains of what was once the capital of the last great Hindu kingdom and one of the world’s largest cities in the 16th century. Today, it is a living site, with 29 villages and widespread agricultural activity. Hampi is an important Hindu ...
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The Ancient Villages of Northern Syria constitute one of the most extraordinary archeological ensembles in the world. There are more than 700 sites from the Roman and Byzantine eras located in a vast region. They are located on a series of limestone plateaus known as the Limestone Massif.
There is interest in these sites, not only because of their number, but also because ...
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During its 27th session in 2003 in Paris and following the debate on Vienna's proposed high-rise project, the WH Committee called for the organization of an international conference to discuss how to properly regulate the needs for modernization of our daily urban environment, while at the same time safeguarding the irreplaceable heritage that our historic cities ...
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UNF launched a “Friends of World Heritage” partnership program in September 2003 during the World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa . A newsletter and web site were set up to support the program and inform the public about the advantages of becoming a “member” of World Heritage.Build the capacity of World Heritage site management to deal with tourism.Raise public ...
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This 3-year project by UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Conservation International, and with financing from the UN Foundation and Global Conservation Fund, calls for the promotion of long-term management and conservation of five marine protected areas within the Eastern Tropical Pacific through using the World Heritage Convention and other international and national legal ...
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In October 2006 the World Heritage Centre published the UNESCO World Heritage Centre's Natural Heritage Strategy, which was endorsed by the World Heritage Committee. The strategy outlines the guiding principles, mission statement, strategic orientations, and working methods of all activities relating to Natural Heritage. In addition, the strategy highlights recent ...
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The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes was created in 1995 to reward outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world’s cultural landscapes.
UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes
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The handbook "Cultural heritage and local development: A Guide for African local governments", co-edited by the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement and CRATerre-ENSAG in 2006, was designed as a tool for decision making, but also for sensitising the elected representatives to the challenges of the protection and valorisation of their heritage. It aims to create a new ...
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Student's appeal
"We, the youth of Africa, have met at the UNESCO World Heritage Forum for Africa in Zimbabwe (18-24 September 1996). During this week, we have discovered just how important it is to conserve and preserve our heritage. Our appeal to you is to help us carry this heritage into the future. We "Patrimonitos" are defenders of World Heritage and the leaders of ...
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World Heritage properties are affected by the impacts of climate change at present and in the future. Their continued preservation requires understanding these impacts to their Outstanding Universal Value and responding to them effectively.
Climate Change and World Heritage
© Copyright / Geoff Pugh, Oxfam East Africa via flickr.com / Children collect water for ...
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The Working Group on the Representativity of the World Heritage List was decided by the 23rd Session of the World Heritage Committee as a follow up to the 12th General Assembly of States Parties of the World Heritage Convention.
At a meeting held on 21 January 2000 the following twelve States Parties were elected to the Working Group: Australia, Benin, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, ...
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A series of 30 exhibition panels available for World Heritage Exhibits. These posters can be used free of copyright restrictions for non-commercial purposes. They are available for downloading as PDF (See Documents below).
Culture/Nature: the link to preservation
The World Heritage emblem symbolises the interdependence of the world's natural and cultural diversity.
What is ...
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Lithuania, Vilnius, 3-8 July 2006
Objectives
The Baltic Youth Workshop on World Heritage was organized on the occasion of the 30th session of the World Heritage Committee in Vilnius.
The general objective of the workshop was to make an input of the young people into the work of the Heritage in order to search for solutions and suggestions on how to preserve, manage and ...
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In 1954 the decision to build the Aswan High Dam was made. This dam would lead to the creation of a huge artificial lake covering the Upper Nile Valley from Aswan in Egypt to the Dal Cataract in Sudan - a culturally extremely rich area, which has been known as Nubia since antiquity.
In 1959 the Egyptian and the Sudanese Governments requested UNESCO to assist their ...
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are some of the most beautiful places on Earth, with atolls of white sand beaches, mountain ranges covered in cloud forest, historic ports and towns, and agricultural landscapes. They are relatively remote, vulnerable to environmental challenges, such as ...
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The town of Harar dates from before the thirteenth century. Its strategic location between the coastal lowlands and central highlands led to its development as an important centre of Islamic culture and commerce. A period of instability led to a loss of its traditional power between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries but it regained its importance in the following ...
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The ‘Niger-Loire: Governance and Culture’ project, coordinated by the World Heritage Centre within the framework of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, and financed by the European Commission, was launched in Mali in November 2007 as a result of discussions initiated in 2004 on the development of the Inner Niger Delta and its inscription on the World Heritage List as ...
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Heritage for the Future
If the future of humanity is irrevocably linked to the city, then this future - political, economic and cultural - will be apparent above all in Asia as recent trends indicate.Throughout time, cities have played a vital role in the development of Asian civilizations. Almost everywhere, the heritage of the past - palaces, places of worship, ...
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Beijing, China, 11-13 August 2005
Event
The Workshop was convened in the framework of the Associated Schools Project (ASP) with the third sub-regional meeting carrying the theme of "World Heritage Education"
Objectives
to promote better and deeper understanding in World Heritage Education and relevant teaching materials in Republic of Korea, Democratic Peoples' Republic ...
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Two international experts’ meetings were held in Campeche (Mexico) on 12-15 March 2004, and subsequently in Valdivia (Chile) on 19-21 January 2005, on the subject of Fortifications in the Americas and the World Heritage Convention. Fortifications are one of the most significant cultural heritages that best summarizes and exemplifies the intercontinental history of the ...
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Our Pledge, Bergen, Norway
Cultural and natural sites form the environment on which human beings are dependent psychologically, religiously, educationally and economically. Their destruction or even deterioration could be harmful to the survival of our identity, our nations and our planet. We have the responsibility to preserve these sites for future generations.
Our ...
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AMMAN, Jordan18-30 May 2004
Workshop Recommendations
Enlisting an item on the Agenda of the Arab National Commissions' Meeting to be held in June, 2004, at Sana'a , Yemen on: The Role of ASPnet in enhancing role of quality education through its pioneer projects, particularly UNESCO Project, related to Youth's participation in the protection and preservation of world ...
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The World Heritage Cities Programme is one of six thematic programmes formally approved and monitored by the World Heritage Committee. The programme concerns the development of a theoretical framework for urban heritage conservation, and the provision of technical assistance to States Parties for the implementation of new approaches and schemes.
World Heritage Cities ...
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Helsinki, Finland, 11-16 December 2001
Objectives
Five main objectives of the Workshop
Present recent WHE achievements and the results of the external World Heritage Evaluation
Make proposals for the integration of the World Heritage Education Kit in school curricula
Chart the future path for the development of the World Heritage Education Project
Recommend proposals for ...
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The Historic Centre of Riga, Latvia, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997 for its urban and architectural values. The city’s urban morphology is a fine example of the development and evolution phases of a northern European city. The urban fabric of its medieval centre reflects the prosperity of the city between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries when it was ...
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In November 2002 the Guatemalan authorities sent an updated tentative list of 16 sites eligible for nomination process for UNESCO World Heritage status. The relevance of Mayan sites, the potential for improving the representation of Mayan sites on the World Heritage list, and the linking of some proposals with pre-existing sites became clear. A mission for Preparatory ...
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Patrimonito
Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures
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Patrimonito means 'small heritage' in Spanish and the character represents a young heritage guardian. Patrimonito has been widely adopted as the international mascot of the World Heritage Education Programme.
Patrimonito was created in 1995 by a group of Spanish-speaking students during a workshop at the 1st ...
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Some 80 high-level participants, representing a wide range of fields, gathered at the International Conference on World Heritage in Young Hands - A Dialogue among Civilizations, held in Aswan/Cairo (Egypt) from 6-12 February 2002. In addition to experts from some 20 countries around the world, the Conference benefited from the participation of 20 Egyptian ...
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Ifrane, Morocco 22-28 November 1999
Objectives
The Forum aims to stimulate young people's interest in preserving the world's cultural and natural heritage. The Forum will give participants the opportunity to exchange views among themselves and education and heritage conservation experts on how to protect cultural and natural sites of outstanding universal value and will be ...
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The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes has been awarded for its first edition in 1999 jointly to Valle de Vinales (Cuba), the Elishia's Park in Jericho (State of Palestine), and the Open-Air Art Museum at Pedvale (Latvia).
Valle de VinalesCuba
Valle de Vinales (Cuba) © UNESCO, Ron Van Oers
The ...
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A capacity-building project to enrich World Heritage information management tools and techniques in the Arab States Region, from adequate documentation of sites, to use of recording tools, management planning, and information exchange
Objectives
To make available updated information relative to the Convention to World Heritage site managers in the Arab region and the ...
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Belize City, Belize 15-17 August 2001
Event and Objectives
Marine Environmental Education Programme, Belize
Fifteen youth were chosen to participate in the 3-day World Heritage Marine Environmental Program.
The objective was to share information with youths about the marine environment especially around the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve, a World Heritage Site in Laughing ...
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The project consists of four core activities
The creation and the development of an Arabic language web site on the World Heritage in the Arab Region, in cooperation with the a regional partner (possibly the Al Ain Authority, from the United Arab Emirates); The development of, through pilot workshops in the field, of four training modules for the reinforcement of capacity ...
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A paper prepared for the Clark Art Institute Conference on "Compression versus Expression : Containing and Explaining the World’s Art".
Williamstown, April 6 - 8, 2000.by Georges S. Zouain – April 2000
This paper is an attempt to show how heritage, art and economics have been and remain very closely related throughout their history and how together, through this ...
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Students' recommendations
We, the participants of the first Asia-Pacific World Heritage Youth Forum are here to express our views on the importance of preserving World Heritage.
We can appreciate and see all these sites because our forefathers preserved them for us and in turn, it is our duty to preserve these for our children, so they too can appreciate them and be ...
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International Conference "What is the fate of Public Art "
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Support for production of a documentary film on earthen architecture
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Created in 2003 within the framework of the Global Strategy for the balanced, representative and credible World Heritage List, as a pilot activity for the identification of the sites connected with astronomy, the Thematic Initiative on Astronomy and World Heritage, aims to establish a link between Science and Culture towards recognition of the monuments and sites connected ...
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Lima, Peru 23 February - 1 March 2001
Objectives
The main objective of the Forum was to find ways to protect the areas that are threatened by tourism.
The global phenomenon of the increase of tourism forces authorities to plan and think of the potential impact that the circulation of voyagers has over a site. For this reason students and teachers of the Youth Forum put ...
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World Heritage and Sustainable Development policy explained: A guide and a collection of good practices to support development of national policies, programmes and sustainable management of World Heritage propertiesAubertFrédérique
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Project to support African States Parties to develop a strategy and finalisation of the DSOCR of natural properties
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Rationale: Tubbataha is a no-take area and the only activities allowed are tourism, which generates funds for conservation, and research.
Since the late 1970s, when dive tourism "discovered" Tubbataha, boat operators anchored on reefs and caused coral damage. By the mid-1990s, seven boats with gross tonnage between 100-300 operated in the Park during the diving season of ...
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51 flagship marine protected areas of Outstanding Universal Value: Beacons of Hope In a Changing Ocean
World HeritageMarine Programme
51 flagship marine protected areas of Outstanding Universal Value: Beacons of Hope In a Changing Ocean
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What we do
State of Conservation reporting
We monitor and prepare evaluations on how countries protect their ...
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Support to the States Parties of Benin and Togo for the preparation of the nomination dossier of Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba as a Transboundary Site
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Objectives
Develop mentoring and fellowships programmes with Earthwatch to support and train local non-government organisations in site monitoring and ecotourism activities.
Incorporate Earthwatch's experience and supply of scientific data into management plans.
Train local people to work with visitors through Earthwatch groups.
Use Earthwatch corporate supporters to ...
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Support to the South Asian Cultural Landscape Initiatives: A UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust Project, 2016 - 2018Lin Chih-HungRoland
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Preparatory assistance for the inscription and protection of the Kingdom of Wu (The Six Canal Towns of the Lower Yangtze River) and support for the establishment of a GIS at the University of Tongi, China
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The France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, similar to the technical cooperation provided to the Town of Luang Prabang in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, has provided technical and financial support to national and local authorities for the inscription, protection and enhancement and development of the Ile de Saint-Louis in Senegal, based on decentralised collaboration ...
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In connection with the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre invited Gruppo Alcuni (Italy), a communication group specializing in animated cartoons, to host the 4th International World Heritage Education Workshop on 'Mobilizing Young People for World ...
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Promotion of intercultural dialogue and tolerance attitudes among children through arts and music expression.
Reintroducing arts and traditional music as well as diffusing knowledge of history and customs are essential for a successful reconstruction process in Afghanistan. They can foster the development of a common identity and lay the foundation for intercultural ...
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Project to support the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Cote d'Ivoire/Guinea) for the empowerment of local communities and the finalization of the Desired State of conservation for the removal of a property from the List of World Heritage Danger (DSCOR)
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Ramallah, Palestine 8-10 April 2000
A national teacher-training Workshop was jointly organized by the Palestinian National Commission for Education, Culture and Science and the Palestinian Ministry of Education with the support of UNESCO Amman Office and the Ron Polnick Foundation. About 30 teachers participated in this Workshop. The participants were introduced to the ...
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The project was developed in response to the threats resulting from the introduction of alien species and is laying the foundations for the creation of a systematic approach to dealing with alien species in island ecosystems. The approval of this project was critical in enlisting additional substantial support from the Global Environment Facility, which is now building on ...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Protecting World Heritage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Parc national des Virunga © Kim S. Gjerstad
A program aimed at preserving the integrity of World Heritage natural Sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo represent half of the total area ...
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The technical cooperation for the protection, enhancement and development of the Town of Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a remarkable example of tripartite cooperation between the Lao People's Democratic Republic, France and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. It is the flagship pilot project of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, which served as a ...
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A 13th century sculpted marble angel and the archway supporting it in Calle Magno, Castello. This was a long-awaited inauguration financed by Pro Venezia Sweden and the Australian Committee for Venice. Working space was so confined that there was no alternative but to close the calle entirely for the duration of the restoration, thus blocking an extremely popular short-cut ...
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Probota Monastery, located in north-east Romania, has been on the World Heritage List since 1993.
The present church, built between 1528 and 1530 by Petru Rares. It is the beautiful internal and external frescos, painted shortly after the construction of the church, that give the site its particular cultural and artistic significance.
Probota Monastery has undergone ...
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Earthen architecture is one of the most original and powerful expressions of our ability to create a built environment with readily available resources.
It includes a great variety of structures, ranging from mosques, palaces and granaries, to historic city centres, cultural landscapes and archaeological sites. Its cultural importance throughout the world is evident and ...
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Karslkrona, Sweden3-8 September 2001
Objectives
The 10th World Heritage Youth Forum Theme was: " Both sides of the coin - how the dark and light sides of my World Heritage can become keys to understand the present and the future"
The Youth Forum aimed at deepening the understanding of World heritage and to make the students aware of the dark and the light sides of their ...
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The US$3,5 million aims to link the conservation of biodiversity with sustainable tourism at six World Heritage sites: El Vizcaino (Mexico), Komodo (Indonesia), Rio Plátano (Honduras), Sian Ka'an (Mexico), Tikal (Guatemala), and Ujung Kulon (Indonesia). It focuses on creating a model for using tourism to promote the protection of important habitats by working with local ...
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In connection with the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre invited Gruppo Alcuni (Italy), a communication group specializing in animated cartoons, to host the 4th International World Heritage Education Workshop on ‘Mobilizing Young People for World ...
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At Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, reserve staff and local partners, such as Amigos de Sian Ka'an, are developing strategies to mitigate the pressures from mass tourism on the site's tropical forests, mangrove canals and coral barrier reef, the second largest in the world.Increase the quality of existing ecotourism services; Reduce the impact of ...
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Pont-du-Gard, France, 21-23 March 2005
Objectives
For teachers:
Provide secondary and elementary school classroom teachers with innovative, user-friendly multi-media interdisciplinary educational resource material on specific World Heritage sites, touchstones of civilization, in support of intercultural learning;
Develop new educational approaches to enhance the ...
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The President of the Republic of Senegal (by Decree 2001-1065 of 20 December 2001) requested the Ministry of Culture (in particular, the Department of Cultural Heritage) conduct an inventory of historical sites and monuments for Senegal over the course of five years. Since Senegal has access to international sovereignty, the country initiated the law 71-12 on the 25th of ...
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At Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the Institute of Anthropology and History, part of the culture ministry, is working to protect one of the world's most important ancient Mayan sites and part of the largest contiguous tropical rainforest in Central America, the Maya Biosphere Reserve.Find sustainable economic alternatives to illegal hunting and the extraction of xate (a ...
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The Comite francais financed the restoration of Lorenzo Bregno's sixteenth-century funeral monument to Alvise Pasqualigo in the Church of the Frari in memory of Ms Solange Gaussen. In November and December the Committee enabled the organ doors that Bonfacio de' Pitati painted for the Church of Sant'Alvise (restored in 1998) to be put on a temporary exhibition in the ...
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The Republic of Cameroun ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1982. Since this date only the Dja faunal reserve has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. In April 2006 the Cameroonian authorities sent a new tentative list, on which the Waterfalls of Lobe were included. This site exemplifies both cultural and natural values and is intended for submission for ...
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The area of Africa that is present-day Ethiopia has a long history rich in tradition; its sites and monuments bear witness to the civilizations that have had their roots in this territory for more than 2,700 years. The buildings and monuments of Aksum, Gondar, Harar and Tiya reflect periods of great influence, growth and prosperity, while the churches and mosques of ...
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Uniting the Seas (Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas) in favour of World Heritage Education for Sustainable Development with the support of ICTs
The GVRR project aims to link young people engaged in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites and sustainable development issues among the countries located along the Volga River and on the banks of the ...
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Osaka, Japan, 22-29 November 1998
Objectives
The objective of the youth Forum was to build a "Bridge to the New Millennium" by promoting: Peace, Restoration & Preservation, Natural Environment and Coexistence.The Forum suggested to UNESCO to "Create the ‘World Heritage Movement' with youth and children for the New Millennium".
Students Final Draft of "Patrimonito's ...
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Many cultural and natural World Heritage sites are home to indigenous peoples. As the UNESCO policy on engaging with indigenous peoples recognizes, World Heritage sites are often located within land managed by indigenous peoples whose land use, knowledge and cultural and spiritual values and practices are related to heritage. Inspired by the United Nations Declaration on ...
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Tunis, Tunisia, 11-13 February 2005
Event
A Regional Workshop on the Practical Manual: Introducing Young People to Heritage Site Management and Protection was held in Tunis involving teachers, from 7 countries in the Arab region, in the discussion and evaluation of pedagogic and curricula approaches for the protection of historic sites and cities.
Objectives
The ultimate ...
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At the start of 2001 the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) and DOCOMOMO (Working Party for the Documentation and Conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement) launched a joint programme for the identification, documentation and promotion of the built heritage of the 19th and 20th centuries - ...
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Early in the implementation of Central African World Heritage Initiative’s first phase, the project partners felt the need to better integrate the project into the whole local ecological, socio-economic and cultural landscape.
The World Heritage Centre has since explored possibilities for collaboration with the French Facility for Global Environment, to develop a new ...
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The Park of Koga (Japan) was awarded the Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes for its 2003 edition.
Park of KogaJapan
Park of Koga (Japan) © UNESCO
The park of Koga is the work of the great landscape designer Nakamura Yoshio, supported by Tadao Kokubo, Mayor of Koga. The park is a mix of old and new elements. The ...
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The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the UNESCO Apia Cluster Office in Samoa, Department of Conservation in New Zealand, and Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Vanuatu, and with financial support from the Nordic World Heritage Foundation, will organize a regional workshop on potential themes for serial and transboundary cultural World Heritage sites in the ...
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The UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme, initiated as a UNESCO special project in 1994, gives young people a chance to voice their concerns and to become involved in the protection of our common cultural and natural heritage. It seeks to encourage and enable tomorrow’s decision-makers to participate in heritage conservation and to respond to the continuing threats ...
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Masvingo, Zimbabwe, 2-4 February 2000
Event and objectives
A workshop for the launch of the World Heritage Education Resource Kit for teachers in the World Heritage Education Project (WHEP) Pilot Schools.
Workshop objectives
Launch the World Heritage in Young Hands project in the 7 pilot secondary schools;
Introduce the World Heritage Education Kit for teachers in the ...
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In May 2007 the Report on predicting and managing the impacts of climate change on World Heritage and Strategy to assist States Parties to implement appropriate management responses were published as "World Heritage Reports n°22 - Climate Change and World Heritage." These were prepared from an expert meeting that took place on 16 and 17 March, 2006 at the UNESCO ...
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The "Old Bridge" enhanced the town's development and prosperity. It was its raison d'etre.
Despite reinforcement works sometimes incompatible with modern restoration principles, this construction was in a perfect state of conservation before the outbreak of military hostilities in the region. Mimar Hajruddin, a pupil of the famous architect Sinan (considered as the father ...
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Dakar-Goree, Senegal 23-27 August 1999
Objectives
The World Heritage Youth Forum and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
By mobilizing the youth from different schools all around the world, UNESCO desired, through the Associated Schools Network to
sensitize young people to the World heritage preservation;
increase knowledge of the young people on a painful chapter of the human ...
85.
Gammelstad, Luleaa, Sweden 27-30 May 2000.
Students, teachers and World Heritage site managers met at a Nordic Conference on World Heritage Education in Gammelstad organized by the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO in collaboration with the local museum.
The objective of the meeting was to strengthen networking and exchange of knowledge between students, teachers and ...
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At its 30th session in July 2006, the World Heritage Committee endorsed the report on "Predicting and managing the impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage" and the "Strategy to assist States Parties to implement management responses", which were prepared following a meeting of experts in March 2006.
The World Heritage Centre is taking the following action on the ...
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Africa is underrepresented on the World Heritage List, particularly concerning archaeological sites. This is why it is important to assist countries in the preparation of nominations.
In a territory approximately 350 km long and 100 km wide, on either side of the border separating Gambia and Senegal, there is a series of megalithic sites characterised by four major types ...
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan20-26 August 1999
Teachers' resolution
Summary and Recommendations
Participants
Countries represented
Organizers
Teachers' resolution
We, the participants of the Sub-regional Workshop have got acquainted with the program and materials of UNESCO World Heritage Kit and UNESCO ASPnet Unit and have come to the following resolution:
to promote and spread ...
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Valencia, July 1998
By Minja Yang
As the century approaches its end, the oracles of the day have set about prophesying doom or utopia in the next millennium at conferences, in the media and even in board rooms where marketing strategies are developed for just about anything from soap to satellite dishes. After a century of unprecedented commodities production through the ...
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CONAKRY, Guinea, 20-22 November 2000
Objectives
The first teacher-training workshop organized in Guinea in the framework of the "World Heritage in Young Hands" project.
Workshop objectives
Introduce World Heritage Education to UNESCO Associated Schools in Guinea;
To familiarize the educators and their young pupils with the exceptional universal value of the cultural and ...
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This World Heritage Youth Forum from 23-28 November 2000 in Cairns, Australia, was the first such forum to be held in the Pacific region. This enabled a unique Pacific focus with students and teachers from 14 Pacific nations and East Timor participating in the Youth Forum and the simultaneous Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) Pacific region ...
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The Executive Board of UNESCO approved at its 167th session (decision 9.2) the establishment of the International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Iraq.
The Committee, which is under the auspices of the Iraqi authorities, has been created for the coordination of all international activities aiming at safeguarding the Iraqi cultural ...
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May 2004 - World Heritage Workshop in Palau, South Pacific
In the framework of the Pacific 2009 Action plan the Spanish Funds in Trust (SFIT) funded in 2004 a sub-regional workshop in Palau, South Pacific. This workshop, the first of its kind in the region, enabled actors in the area of heritage of the archipelago state to meet and discuss the eventual formulation of a ...
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Enhancing Our Heritage - Monitoring and Managing for Success in World Natural Heritage Sites was a seven-year UNESCO/IUCN project funded by the United Nations Foundation. The project commenced in 2001 and operated in nine World Heritage sites in Africa, South Asia and Latin America that have all been recognized for their biodiversity values.
The specific aim of the project ...
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Support to the thematic programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), support to the Seychelles seminar
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Marine heritage: Support to the Central Pacific project and support to the World Heritage marine programmeJing/ 景峰Feng
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Support for international training in France for World Heritage site managers. Support to the Pole international francophone (PIF)
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In 1470 or thereabouts, an image of a Madonna and child was enshrined in a niche overlooking the street. Gradually, a history of miracles grew up around it, and the Venetians so worshipped the Madonna that they decided to dedicate a chapel and subsequently a church to her. In 1480, Pietro Lombardo was chosen by competition for his harmonious design of a church set in the ...
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International World Heritage Youth Forum : first WHY Forum organized in Russian Federation at Velikiy Novgorod, 24-29 August 2002.
The working program of the Forum included three round tables:
Associated Schools of UNESCO - Integration of the Experience of Dealing with the World Heritage into the Education SystemObjective was to work out recommendations based on the ...
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Covering an area estimated at 1.62 million km2, the forests of Central Africa are home to vital biodiversity for the planet and play a central role in climate regulation and carbon sequestration.
Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative(CAWHFI)
© Ralf Fisher / Tri-national de la Sangha
Covering an area estimated at 1.62 million km2, the forests of ...
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Despite its extraordinary cultural and biological diversity and richness, the Pacific is the most under-represented sub-region on the World Heritage List.
To redress this imbalance, World Heritage Global Strategy meetings were held in the Pacific - in Fiji in July 1997 and in Vanuatu in August 1999. As a result, many Pacific Island countries joined the World Heritage ...
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Save Venice Inc. brought three projects in the Church of San Francesco della Vigna to completion during the year.
The Cappella Badoer-Giustinian was restored in memory of one of the founding fathers of the international private organizations for Venice, John MacAndrew, and his wife Betty. The chapel is faced with relief sculptures that were probably salvaged from an ...
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Mount Kenya, Kenya, 19-23 April 2004
Event
The 4-day program included, besides an official opening, thematic presentations by resource persons from the Kenya National Museums, the Kenya Wildlife Service, the Kenyan National Commission and by the World Heritage Centre. All thematic presentations were accompanied by skills development activities based on the various chapters ...
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There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and humankind, they express a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural environment.There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and ...
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Support for the identification, safeguarding and protection of heritage in Comoros
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Support for the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting for Africa
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Support for the creation of the Indian Heritage Cities Network (IHCN)
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Support for the World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP)
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Since 2001, with the support of the UNESCO/Republic of Korea Funds-in-Trust, the World Heritage Centre coordinates conservation and capacity building activities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to safeguard Koguryo-era burial sites.
With a special emphasis on conservation of mural paintings, this project has achieved significant results and led not only to the ...
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Support to the School of African Heritage (EPA), Porto Novo, Benin
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Support for the annual seminar of the UNESCO Chair for "Culture, Tourism and Development"
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Supporting biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods in Lake Malawi National Park
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Supporting cultural and environmental education programmes in Lope National Park
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Supporting local tourism in the Old City of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Support for the conservation of the Complex of Koguryo Tombs in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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Technical support for the management, enhancement and development of the Historic Areas of Istanbul, Turkey
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Support for conservation and management of the Historic Town of Grand Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire
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Global Strategy: Support to agro-pastoral cultural landscapesRössler,TournouxMechtild,Marie-Noël
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Support to the International seminar on the Rehabilitation of Historic Centres of Latin American Cities (SIRCHAL) Programme
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Supporting Community-Based Management and Sustainable Tourism at World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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First Central European Meeting - World Heritage in Young Hands - in Bratislava, Slovakia, 24-29 June 2002.
The purpose of the meeting was to initiate innovative educational approach and develop a sense of shared responsibility for our common cultural and natural heritage. It is considered important to introduce cultural heritage education in both schools and out of school ...
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Preparatory assistance for the inscription of the property and support for the management of the Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in Chile
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Support to the UNESCO Chair in management of Cultural Heritage, Manizales branch, National University of Colombia, Colombia
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Support research into ancient mosaics of the Ma’arat an-Noman Museum, Syrian Arab Republic
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Capacity-building programme for the nomination of World Heritage sites in the Africa Region supported by Government of Japan
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Support for the Silk Roads World Heritage Sites in Central Asia (Phase II)Lin Chih-HungRoland
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Support to the architectural design of new bridges after destruction of essential infrastructure by heavy rains at Rwenzori Mountains National Park
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Support for African local governments in the field of heritage (EU-AIMF project)Robert,Tournoux,Eloundou Assomo,MoukalaEmmanuelle,Marie-Noël,Lazare,Edmond
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Support for the restoration of the Christ the Saviour Church in Prizren, Kosovo (References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999))
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Support for the conservation and management of Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape, Lao People's Democratic RepublicJing/ 景峰Feng
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Support for the establishment of an on-line State of Conservation Information System (SOC) database on the state of conservation reports for World Heritage PropertiesTournouxMarie-Noël
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Support the development and implementation of corrective measures and desired state of conservation for the removal of Lake Turkana National Parks from the List of World Heritage in Danger
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Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, 14-16 March 2005
Organizers
The UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office, in collaboration with the UNESCO Harare Office and under guidance of UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Event
The workshop was convened to familiarize the participating teachers from the sub-region with the World Heritage in young Hands Education Kit published in Swahili in ...
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This church was built in the second half of the seventeenth century by Giuseppe Benoni; the facade is the work of Giuseppe Sardi.Antonio Barbaro left detailed instructions in his will for the design, building and financing of this church, which was intended to glorify the generosity of the donor and his family. The themes represented on the richly decorated facade are ...
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The Caribbean Capacity Building Programme (CCBP) is a long-term training programme focusing on cultural heritage management and aiming to create a Caribbean network of heritage experts.
They, in turn, can share knowledge, know-how and expertise on the modus operandi of the World Heritage Convention and on heritage management in general.
The CCBP was conceived to respond to ...
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Call to produce additional innovative resource material on specific World Heritage sites
The importance of preparing new multi-media educational material focused on specific World Heritage sites in respective countries was given emphasis by participants from twenty different countries at the International conference on World Heritage in Young Hands ‘A Dialogue among ...
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Honduras' forest administration (COHDEFOR) and local NGOs, such as MOPAWI, are seeking sustainable alternatives for the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve. The most important remaining strand of humid tropical forest in the region, Rio Plátano is home to 2,000 indigenous people, whose traditional lifestyles are threatened by encroaching settlements and agricultural development. ...
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Message given by the Director General delivered at the Press Conference of the 12th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nairobi, Kenya (6-17 November 2006)
One of the major challenges of our society is coping with climate change; to this end the need to improve the level of public debate on climate change is vital. Thus, public ...
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People of Africa, the Americas, the Arab to the future world, Asia, Europe and the Pacific; men, women and children, we are all the inheritors of treasures from past civilizations and natural sites of outstanding beauty. We are all responsible for passing these treasures on civilizations. People of the world, ephemeral owners of the world heritage of humanity, ours is the ...
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Higher education is crucial to the long-term preservation of World Heritage sites. As the World Heritage List grows, there is an urgent need for qualified professionals to manage every aspect of the sites, from conservation and preservation to monitory, to tourism and visitor flows as well as interaction with local authorities and communities.
The World Heritage Centre ...
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A model conservation and management plan for the cultural heritage site of Abila in Northern Jordan is being developed jointly by a working group of teachers and students from BTU and Yarmouk University. This model can serve as a reference for other sites in the region.
The initiative was followed by a course devoted to development of guidelines for sustainable management ...
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The Inventory of the historic city of Sana'a: a tool for urban conservationMiglioliFranca
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Case Study: Impact assessment of a wind energy project near a World Heritage property in the Netherlands
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Case Study: Policy framework for a controlled wind energy development near a transboundary World Heritage property
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Following four preliminary survey missions fielded by the Japanese Government in response to the request of the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor (JSA) was set up in 1994 under the leadership of Professor NAKAZAWA from Waseda University, Tokyo, to carry out a practical project within the framework of the UNESCO/Japan Trust ...
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RØROS, Norway
The third European World Heritage Restoration Camp for Youth was held 6-17 August 2001 in Røros, a mining town in Norway, that is a World Heritage Site since 1981. For the third time, participants learned how to take concrete action to restore and preserve WH sites through hands-on work and workshops. The students also went on excursions and they celebrated a ...
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Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru share a common cultural heritage of outstanding value: the Qhapaq Nan, or Main Andean Road.
For the past three years the World Heritage Centre has been assisting these countries in a pioneering project: the preparation of a single nomination for the inclusion of Qhapaq Nan in the World Heritage List entailing an ...
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Oral Archives: Jeffrey A. McNeely
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Following the decline of the Aksumite Empire, power shifted in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to Roha in Lasta District.
This was renamed for King Lalibela (1181-1221) of the Zagwe Dynasty which ruled in Lalibela for more than a century. The construction of eleven rock-hewn churches is attributed to King Lalibela. The buildings are monolithic, carved from a sloping ...
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The Venice branch of Zonta Club International undertook to fund the restoration of Jacopo Bassano's famous painting of the "Nativity" in the Basilica of S. Giorgio Maggiore.
The Association of Private Committees is using funds donated by the Japanese Horiuchi Foundation for the restoration of a painting of St. George and the Dragon by Carpaccio from the Cappella del ...
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In the sestiere or district of Castello, at the entrance to the calle del Paradiso, so called because of the splendid illuminations on festival nights, there is an elegant Gothic arch surmounted by a triangular spire and decorated on the side fronting the canal. The Madonna holds her mantle wide open to protect a devout couple kneeling in prayer. The sculpted arms on each ...
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The first stage of Venice in Peril’s (VIP) exciting venture into the conservation of historic housing in Venice also reached completion during the year.
This Superintendency-led project brought together an international team of undergraduate and doctoral students, academics and professional engineers and architects to produce a prototype, conservation-based plan for the ...
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This historical mosque, situated in the vicinity of the Old Bridge, in the most touristic part of Mostar, was built c. 1600.
This monocameral mosque had a rectangular plan a roof of slates and a slender minaret, twenty metres high. A wooden porch marked the entrance. This picturesque little mosque suffered considerable damage during military operations in 1992 and 1993: ...
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teaching module in cultural heritage for primary and secondary schools in Jordan is being developed. It is expected to be approved by the Jordanian Ministry of Education in the nearest future and implemented thereafter.
In order provide a broader visibility to this activity, a workshop was organized at Yarmouk University on the 23rd of April, where the strategies for the ...
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During unsettled periods between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, Ethiopian rulers moved their royal camps frequently. King Fasil (Fasiledes) settled in Gondar and established it as a permanent capital in 1636. After Fasil, successive kings continued building, improving the techniques and architectural style. Before its decline in the late eighteenth century, the ...
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Beside the famous Stari Most (Old Bridge), a genuine symbol of the town destroyed in 1993, there is another ancient bridge in Mostar: the Kriva Cuprija (or the Crooked Bridge).
It crosses the Rabobolja creek, a right-bank affluent of the Neretva River. The exact date of its construction and the name of its founder are not known. Kriva cuprija is a stone one-arch bridge of ...
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Mid-sixteenth century painted Crucifixion group in wood, with the Virgin and St. John, from the Church of San Michele.
Following its long and painstaking restoration, the remarkable Crucifixion group financed by the America-Italy Society of Philadelphia and the Stichting Nederlands Venetie Comite, will return to a new, "healthier" site in the church in spring 2000.
A study ...
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The program consists first in organizing a study preparatory workshop in order to elaborate the strategy that should lead to a sustainable use of the water resources of the Ichkeul National Park, then in monitoring the workshop and its recommendations and finally in coordinating the implementation of the management strategy of site: to provide a finalized management ...
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At Ujung Kulon National Park Indonesia's Forestry Department and local NGOs are working on strategies to help poor local communities benefit from their natural resources in a more sustainable way. Ujung Kulon houses a unique volcanic environment, the largest area of lowland rainforest in the Java plain, and the last 60 Javan rhinoceros in the world. At Komodo National Park ...
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International Co-operation has taken decades to accept texts including notions such as “recognition” or “perception” in relation to processes of cultural determination by communities (local, peasant, of interest, aboriginal, indigenous, of origin, ......) in the framework of the preservation of Cultural Heritage. It was a requirement as of the Conference at Nara (Japan, ...
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Avian Flu – A Threat to Biodiversity
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Petra, Jordan
Event
The 1st sub-Regional World Heritage Skills Development Course in the Arab Region held in Petra, Jordan (2002) scientifically supervised by ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).
Objectives
Enhance young peoples awareness and sense of ownership of the heritage
Develop a manual of best ...
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Conservation as a driver for development: the case of Vigan (Philippines)
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Towards a Balanced Representation of World Heritage Sites
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Guide 2: Developing a strategy for progressive change
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World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing ClimateDebrinePeter
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Guidance for Wind Energy Projects in a World Heritage Context
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UNESCO and the Government of Mozambique signed an agreement in 2003 for the rehabilitation of the San Sebastian Fortress, the most emblematic monument on the Island of Mozambique, a site inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991.
Built in the 16th century by the Portuguese colonial rulers, the Fortress is one of the oldest and in its massive and sober military ...
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Business Planning for World Heritage Site Managers - a ToolkitPatryMarc
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Providing a platform for youth’s participation in World Heritage conservation
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Setting up a World Heritage management framework in Kyiv (Ukraine)
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Developing a participatory approach to World Heritage management in Mtskheta (Georgia)
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World Heritage sites and museums: A pact for sustainable developmentHayashiNao
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The Comite francais pour la sauvegarde de Venise often sponsors the restoration of Venetian monuments that have a French connection.
This is the case of the Cappella Clary in the Church of San Trovaso, the burial place of a French princess.
The most important work in the chapel is the beautiful fifteenth-century relief carving of three Greek marble panels on the front of ...
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The World Heritage Information Network (WHIN) is the global network of World Heritage information providers.
It was created in 1995 in order to foster the exchange of information between partner networks and World Heritage sites around the world. In addition to information carried by its partners, news is circulated through WHNEWS, the e-mail newsletter, the printed World ...
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Preparatory assistance and establishment of a management plan for the Historic Centre of Agadez, Niger
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Developing a new methodology for urban regeneration: the ROCK project in Bologna (Italy)
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Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage ContextFrankLaura
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Developing a Sustainable Tourism Strategy for the Silk Roads Heritage CorridorsDebrinePeter
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Building a Global Sustainable Network of World Heritage Site ManagersEtowarValentino
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The Borodino Battlefield in the Russian Federation was awarded the Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes.The Borodino Battlefield in the Russian Federation was awarded the Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes.
Borodino BattlefieldRussian Federation
Borodino ...
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Establishing a dialogue between site management and residents in the Historic Centre of Salzburg (Austria)
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Creating a shared framework in the serial World Heritage property of Mantua and Sabbioneta (Italy)
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Penang, Malaysia, 15-21 January 2006
Event and objectives
See also published report.
"Seeing with Young Eyes" workshop was meant to serve as a forum for discussion of how to relate arts vocabulary and mediums to heritage themes and issues and how to facilitate creative thinking and problem solving skills through the arts and thereby create awareness of, and sensitivity ...
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Towards a Nordic-Baltic pilot region for World Heritage and Sustainable TourismDebrinePeter
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Creating a digital archive of historic documents and photographs of World Heritage sites in Iraq
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Assistance to the project for the creation of a global network of World Heritage forests. Seminar in Nancy, France
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The Amici della Basilica dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo (with funding from the Fondazione Varzi) commissioned preliminary chemical analyses in the Cappella Sagredo, with frescoes by Tiepolo, in the Church of S. Francesco della Vigna. A programme of work drawn up on the basis of these and other preliminary investigations is ready to start. Funds made available by the "Inner ...
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Bridging a spatial and social divide through inclusive planning in Zanzibar Town (United Republic of Tanzania)
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Case Study: Assessment of cumulative impacts of multiple developments near a World Heritage property
Case Study: Assessment of cumulative impacts of multiple developments near a World Heritage property
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The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes has been awarded for 2001 jointly to Murjadjo Djebel, Planters' Wood and Old Town of Sid Hourari (Algeria) and the Lygra Heathland Centre (Norway).The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes ...
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Note 1 – Identifying and mapping attributes that convey the Outstanding Universal Value of a World Heritage property
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Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention - A Thematic StudySidorenkoAnna
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This complex is located to the south-east of the Imperial City. It was built in 1805 by Gia Long. In 1956 its roof was carried away by a typhoon. The temple was restored in 1963, but in 1972 it was demolished and rebuilt, on a smaller scale but in the same location, and re-roofed with machine-made tiles.Complex of the Temple for the Worship of the Nine Nguyen Lords (Thai ...
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Technical assistance for the creation of a museum on the archaeological and mining site of the City of Potosi, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
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Technical assistance for the preparation and establishment of a management plan for Coro and its Port, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| A Modernist African City (Eritrea)Ashraf AliMirna
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Call for case studies “Historic Cities in Development: Keys for Understanding and Action”. A Compilation of Case Studies on the Conservation and Management of Historic Cities.
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Case Study: Stakeholder participation and engagement – a discussion forum to develop joint recommendations, the example of the KNE Dialogue (Berlin, Germany)
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Durban, South Africa, 12-14 July 2005
Objectives
In parallel with the 29th World Heritage Committee meeting in Durban a visual arts workshop for young people was held.
The objective was to translate the children's perspective on heritage sites into visual arts.
Report
The Youth Forum consisted of a general introduction and reflection on World Heritage and of two workshops. ...